Stéphane Acka

Central Defender - Zira
12 Nov 2026
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The Zira Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market28 Sep 2026

Martins Júnior wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Zira

Issa Djibrilla 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.

Match26 Sep 2026

Zira come up short against Sumgayit

Sumgayit left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Zira pick somebody else ahead of Guima

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Henrique Gelain gets it from the manager

“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.

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Martins Júnior

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Zira Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Zira

Qismət Alıyev 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.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Zira

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad17 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Tiago Silva

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tiago Silva, and the manager let it.

Market17 Aug 2026

Zira promote Orkhan Garayev from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Orkhan Garayev has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market17 Aug 2026

One of our own: Kamran Amirguliyev joins the Zira first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kamran Amirguliyev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market17 Aug 2026

Dimitrij Guseynov steps up from the Zira academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dimitrij Guseynov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market17 Aug 2026

Zira promote Cavid Guseynov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cavid Guseynov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

One of those days for Davit Volkovi

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.25, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Ceyhun Nuriyev

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief