Dmitry Markitesov

Defensive Midfielder - Rodina
13 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Dmitry Markitesov

5 Edition

The Rodina Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Age has not caught Andrey Yegorychev yet — 8.14

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.14 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad

Tempers go at Rodina

Artem Maximenko 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

Spartak Kostroma join the queue for Magomedkhabib Abdusalamov

Add another name to the list: Spartak Kostroma have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Magomedkhabib Abdusalamov. The answer from Rodina has not changed — yet.

Match

Rodina see off Arsenal Tula

Three points for Rodina, 1‑0 the final word against Arsenal Tula in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Ruslan Fischenko

19 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Squad

Rodina pick somebody else ahead of Dmitry Markitesov

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 Leon Musaev

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

Squad

Andrey Yegorychev finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Rodina have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Artem Meschaninov

Defensive actions: 12. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Rodina Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Sergey Volkov keeps Rodina in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

No end in sight to Rodina's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Rodina has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at Rodina

Yordy Reyna 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

Artem Maximenko 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

Dmitry Markitesov 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.

Match

Rodina share the spoils with Sokol

A 1‑1 draw with Sokol leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

2 Edition

The Rodina 2 Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Alexandr Stenyakin signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alexandr Stenyakin commits to Rodina 2 for another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Rodina 2

Dmitry Markitesov 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

A bad afternoon for Rodina 2 against Kaluga

0‑2 to Kaluga, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market

Eyes on Daniel Svintsov again

The phone has started ringing about Daniel Svintsov again, and this time the name on the line is Ufa. Rodina 2 are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

No hiding place for Alexandr Stenyakin

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

Market

Rodina 2 and Dmitry Markitesov are talking past each other

“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.

In brief