Max Dziov

Central Defender - Dinamo Brest
13 Oct 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Max Dziov

11 Edition

The Fakel Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

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 ratings

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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 ratings

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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

Back issues
10 Edition

The Dinamo Brest Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Nery Veloso breaks a bone — 64 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 64 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

Óscar Salinas lights up a European night for Dinamo Brest

2‑1 against Jablonec, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Óscar Salinas was at the centre of the description.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Pavel Demchuk

39 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo Brest lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Yegor Kortsov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Brest is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Óscar Salinas yet — 7.96

At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.96 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Boardroom

Yegor Kortsov has agreed to leave Dinamo Brest for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad

Tempers go at Dinamo Brest

Nikita Stepanov 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.

Boardroom

Dinamo Brest beat the market to Vladislav Fedosov from Slutsk

Slutsk will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Vladislav Fedosov has pre-agreed a move to Dinamo Brest, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Match

The run at home goes on for Dinamo Brest

8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

In brief

  • Player ratings Ninety minutes of Max Dziov at his very best
  • Squad Óscar Salinas falls out with a teammate over standards
  • Market The clock does Yegor Kortsov’s negotiating for him
7 Edition

The Dinamo Brest Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Nery Veloso breaks a bone — 89 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 89 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Pavel Demchuk damages knee ligaments — 61 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 61 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Osipovichi come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Dinamo Brest did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Match

Whatever happens, Dinamo Brest do not lose

9 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Market

Ilya Sedro is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Brest is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words at Dinamo Brest training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yegor Kortsov 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.

Boardroom

Ilya Branovets will join Dinamo Brest for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Ilya Branovets has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Dinamo Brest have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Squad

Alexey Lavrik 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 Dinamo Brest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Max Dziov was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.24. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

2 Edition

The Dinamo Brest Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Nery Veloso breaks a bone — 129 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 129 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

No mercy from Dinamo Brest

Naftan will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Dinamo Brest were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

Mikhail Bondarenko, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 9.36

A mark of 9.36 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Mikhail Bondarenko takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Ivan Zenkov

Defensive actions: 25. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Market

Dinamo Brest say no — this time

The offer from Lida for Alexandr Fisyuk was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Maxim Belov signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Maxim Belov and Dinamo Brest agree another 3 years.

Squad

Nikita Stepanov 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 Dinamo Brest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Dinamo Brest agree a free transfer for Dmitriy Gradoboev

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

In brief