The Fakel Courier
Match12 Oct 2026
Fakel refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 24 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Nichita Moțpan
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Darko Todorović 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Fakel
Vyacheslav Yakimov 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Daniil Frolkin 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 ratings12 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Belajdi Pusi at his very best
Marked 8.42. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Fakel.
Match10 Oct 2026
Belajdi Pusi rescues a point for Fakel
It needed Belajdi Pusi to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Sokol, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad12 Oct 2026
When it matters, Igor Obukhov plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market12 Oct 2026
Still no ink between Fakel and Yury Zhuravlev
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Fakel, another week without a signature from Yury Zhuravlev.
In brief
- Player ratings Mamadou Camara leaves them behind him
- Loan watch Georgy Gongadze keeps scoring at Chelyabinsk
- Loan watch 2 goals on loan for Max Dziov