Sander Kapper

Central Midfielder - Elva
9 Nov 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Sander Kapper

11 Edition

The Elva Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Elva

Pavel Dõmov 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.

Squad

The penny has dropped for Pavel Dõmov

He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Elva the difference is visible from the back of the stand.

The dugout

The manager plants his flag on Joonas Vahermägi

“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Joonas Vahermägi’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Elva Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Elva

Pavel Dõmov 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.

Market

Markus Antonov steps up from the Elva academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Markus Antonov 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.

Market

Elva promote Marek Pikk from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marek Pikk 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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Elva Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The small margins put Elva out

Out, 0‑2 to Narva Trans, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad

Tempers go at Elva

Pavel Dõmov 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.

Transfer targets

Elva rebuffed over Denis Poliakov

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Narva Trans have kept their man, and Elva go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Words at Elva training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sander Sinilaid 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.

Market

A stepping stone, not a home, for Sander Sinilaid

He is doing his job and he is not settling. Elva were supposed to be a step up in his own reckoning, and his own reckoning has been adjusted since he arrived.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ilja Kassjantšuk

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

Squad

No place for Sander Kapper in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Elva are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Market

Still no ink between Elva and Vassili Kulik

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Elva, another week without a signature from Vassili Kulik.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Hendrik Teniste left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief