Branquinho

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Kolos
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Marked for Branquinho

622 Edition

The Kolos Chronicle

28 Jun 2038
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad28 Jun 2038

A knee injury of the worst kind for Vitalii Haivan

29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kolos lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad28 Jun 2038

Oleksandr Kharechko breaks a bone — 64 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 64 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market28 Jun 2038

Mykhailo Tymchyk hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kolos can pretend not to have heard.

Market28 Jun 2038

Only the photograph left for Branquinho

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Branquinho will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kolos the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad28 Jun 2038

Branquinho is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad28 Jun 2038

Words at Kolos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oleksii Bezruchuk is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

Back issues
620 Edition

The Kolos Chronicle

14 Jun 2038
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad14 Jun 2038

Oleksandr Kharechko breaks a bone — 78 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 78 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market14 Jun 2038

Oleksandr Kharechko has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Kolos they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad14 Jun 2038

Marian Leskovets in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kolos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 Jun 2038

Words at Kolos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oleksii Bezruchuk is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad14 Jun 2038

Mykola Tymchyk out for 35 days

The medical room confirms 35 days on the sidelines for Mykola Tymchyk, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Market14 Jun 2038

The Anton Riabokon question follows Kolos around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Anton Riabokon’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

609 Edition

The Kolos Chronicle

29 Mar 2038
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad29 Mar 2038

Oleksii Bezruchuk in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kolos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad29 Mar 2038

Daniil Prykhodko falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad29 Mar 2038

The manager has not finished forgetting Danylo Nazarenko's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad29 Mar 2038

The manager makes an example of Mykola Havryliuk

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market29 Mar 2038

Mykhailo Dziun linked with a move away

The name of Mykhailo Dziun keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Kolos say nothing, which says plenty.

Market29 Mar 2038

Talks stall between Kolos and Branquinho

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

594 Edition

The Kolos Chronicle

14 Dec 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad14 Dec 2037

Vasyl Stepanenko breaks a bone — 24 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad14 Dec 2037

Tempers go at Kolos

Oleksii Bezruchuk was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings14 Dec 2037

Kostiantyn Subota was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.30. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad14 Dec 2037

Words at Kolos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniil Prykhodko is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad14 Dec 2037

Defences have started doubling up on Marian Leskovets

9 goals and a season average of 7.39 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Player ratings14 Dec 2037

One of those days for Mykhailo Dziun

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.05, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match12 Dec 2037

Kolos see off Veres

Three points for Kolos, 2‑1 the final word against Veres in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings14 Dec 2037

Igor Bambecki was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.15. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings14 Dec 2037

Marian Leskovets leaves them behind him

Shots: 6. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.

In brief

575 Edition

The Kolos Chronicle

3 Aug 2037
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match1 Aug 2037

Kolos make home a hard place to visit

12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Boardroom3 Aug 2037

The Kolos board want somebody sold

The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.

Squad3 Aug 2037

Igor Bambecki in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kolos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match1 Aug 2037

Oleksandr Kocherhin sends Kolos past Prykarpattia

It finished 4‑3, and it was Oleksandr Kocherhin’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Kolos.

Squad3 Aug 2037

A move Branquinho would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Branquinho is living that version at Kolos, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match1 Aug 2037

Oleksandr Kocherhin among the goals in a wild afternoon

7 goals in one match, Oleksandr Kocherhin on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Kolos and Prykarpattia.

Squad3 Aug 2037

Words at Kolos training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oleksii Bezruchuk is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Boardroom3 Aug 2037

Sergei Igonen will join Kolos for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Sergei Igonen has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Kolos have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Player ratings3 Aug 2037

Yehor Marchenko in the eights

A performance of 9.10 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief