Dmitry Sadov

Defensive Midfielder - Veles
29 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Dmitry Sadov

4 Edition

The Veles Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Ilja Kuptsov wins the shoot-out

4 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.

Match

Veles through in the cup

A 2‑2 win over Khimik, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match

Veles win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 90th minute. Leningradets will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Market

Artur Koloskov 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 Veles can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Mikhail Rybalko goes up and wins it — 7.67

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.67 for the rest of it.

Squad

Tempers go at Veles

Dmitry Sadov 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

Veles find a way past Leningradets

Leningradets made Veles work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

The dugout

No hiding place for Yury Zavezen

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

Player ratings

The kick that got away from Karim Giraev

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

In brief

Back issues
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The Veles Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Alexandr Krasnopevtsev has said yes to Chertanovo

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Veles have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Squad

Dmitry Sadov 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 Veles this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Veles get the job done against Alania

A 1‑0 win over Alania, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Vladislav Galkin takes the honours

Marked 7.94 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Veles had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Nil Moiseev kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

Looking ahead

Zakhar Tarasenko faces his old club

Leningradets next, and one man in the Veles dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Yury Zavezen

Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

The manager makes Vladislav Galkin a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Veles. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

The dugout

The plan did not have a place for Mikhail Rybalko

Nobody at Veles is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

In brief

2 Edition

The Veles Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words exchanged at Veles

Dmitry Sadov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market

Veles promote Luka Prokofiev from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luka Prokofiev 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.

Market

Veles promote Gleb Ponomarev from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gleb Ponomarev 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.

Market

Dmitriy Kudryavtsev steps up from the Veles academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dmitriy Kudryavtsev 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

Veles promote Arseniy Kalinin from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Arseniy Kalinin 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Zakhar Tarasenko

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

Match

Veles come up short against Mashuk

Mashuk left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Nil Moiseev faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Nil Moiseev after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Player ratings

Muslim Bammatgereev runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

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The Veles Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Dmitry Sadov signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dmitry Sadov commits to Veles for another 4 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Veles

Dmitry Sadov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Kirill Korolkov the difference as Veles beat Dinamo Kirov

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kirill Korolkov. 2‑1 against Dinamo Kirov, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Market

Talks stall between Veles and Dmitry Sadov

“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.

Player ratings

Kirill Korolkov stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.87 on the card, and the Veles support went home talking about one name.

Market

49 months and counting on Kirill Korolkov

Still no offer on the table, and Kirill Korolkov’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Squad

Veles are still strangers to each other

6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Nil Moiseev, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

Player ratings

Muslim Bammatgereev was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

In brief