Hugo Constant

Goalkeeper - Metalurh Zaporizhzhia
4 Oct 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Hugo Constant

7 Edition

The Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

8 matches without a win for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia

The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Metalurh Zaporizhzhia are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Words at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cleitinho 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.

Match

Dmytro Irodovskyi’s goal not enough for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia

Dmytro Irodovskyi scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Podillia, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

No hiding place for Hugo Constant

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Dmytro Irodovskyi

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Hugo Constant still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Dmytro Irodovskyi

Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

7 matches without a win for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Metalurh Zaporizhzhia are no longer polite ones.

Match

Andrii Savitskyi’s goal not enough for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia

Andrii Savitskyi scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Inhulets, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Cleitinho 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.

Squad

Metalurh Zaporizhzhia pick somebody else ahead of Hugo Constant

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.

Squad

No hiding place for Vladyslav Klymenko

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

In brief

3 Edition

The Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Andrii Savitskyi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Vasyl Bundash stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Vasyl Bundash and Metalurh Zaporizhzhia agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Jonathan Lima 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.

Match

UCSA take the points off Metalurh Zaporizhzhia

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Ihor Yurechko 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 Metalurh Zaporizhzhia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Hugo Constant

“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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Metalurh Zaporizhzhia Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Metalurh Zaporizhzhia

Beaten 3‑6 by Metalist, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Player ratings

Both of them Andrii Savitskyi's — 8.39

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.39, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Hugo Constant

There were 7 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 ratings

Artem Sitalo, 37, rolls back the years — 8.03

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.03 at 37, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Tempers go at Metalurh Zaporizhzhia

Ivan Mamrosenko 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.

Match

9 goals as Metalurh Zaporizhzhia and Metalist go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 9 goals between Metalurh Zaporizhzhia and Metalist, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Metalurh Zaporizhzhia dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Market

Still no ink between Metalurh Zaporizhzhia and Vladyslav Nekhtiy

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

Squad

Metalurh Zaporizhzhia pick somebody else ahead of Nazar Baida

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.

In brief