Marked for Sylvanus Nimely
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Squad12 Oct 2026
Andro Giorgadze: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Kokand 1912 have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market12 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Kokand 1912 they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kokand 1912 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Triumph
Match26 Sep 2026
3‑0, and Javohir Sidiqov took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Kokand 1912 tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.56 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match28 Sep 2026
20 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad28 Sep 2026
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Toma Tabatadze yet — 8.53
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.53 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match26 Sep 2026
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kokand 1912 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A season average of 7.33 with 7 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
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Market21 Sep 2026
The offer from Irtysh for Shaxzod Beshimov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Shota Gvazava, 33, rolls back the years — 7.80
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.80 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market21 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Muhriddin Fazliddinov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kokand 1912 the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match19 Sep 2026
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Kokand 1912 have 3 straight wins of it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Sylvanus Nimely 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Jean Marie Dongou 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 9.06 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.95, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Match5 Sep 2026
3‑0, and Yehor Kondratiuk took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Kokand 1912 tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kokand 1912, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Toma Tabatadze yet — 8.50
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.50 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Sylvanus Nimely 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 ratings7 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Yehor Kondratiuk at his very best
Marked 9.27. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Kokand 1912.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 672% of everything Kokand 1912 earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Sylvanus Nimely was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.69. 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Kokand 1912 will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kokand 1912 can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kokand 1912 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Kokand 1912 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jean Marie Dongou 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
7.60, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Kokand 1912 had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Zafar Hakimov, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Sylvanus Nimely trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Match29 Aug 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Navbahor came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
Lokomotiv go through and Kokand 1912 go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad24 Aug 2026
There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kokand 1912, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Shohruh Gadoyev, 34, rolls back the years — 8.10
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.10 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market24 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Muhriddin Fazliddinov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kokand 1912 the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Sylvanus Nimely 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
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Upbeat
Match12 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Neftchi, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Saidislombek Paxlavonov did not need any: 7.61, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Shota Gvazava yet — 7.80
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.80 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Shohrux Mahmudhojiyev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Kokand 1912 the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Shohrux Mahmudhojiyev has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kokand 1912 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Javohir Sidiqov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
9.35. 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.04, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match15 Aug 2026
Three points for Kokand 1912, 2‑0 the final word against Andijon in a contest settled by the finer margins.
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Crisis
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kokand 1912 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Kokand 1912 training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jean Marie Dongou 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Qizilqum, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Kokand 1912 know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market10 Aug 2026
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Kokand 1912 has been clear about where Mirziyod Mirodilov stands, which is more than many ever get.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Shots: 10, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Toma Tabatadze and Kokand 1912 agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sylvanus Nimely 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market3 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Kokand 1912 has been clear about where Muhriddin Fazliddinov stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Shaxzod Beshimov’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 14, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.