Marked for Slobodan Tedić
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Uneasy
Match19 Dec 2026
5 matches without a win for Akron
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Akron are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Akron this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Khetag Khosonov 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Matías Giménez
“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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Khetag Khosonov dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Match19 Dec 2026
Point won or two lost for Akron?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Lokomotiv Moscow? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Akron this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Akron training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gilson Benchimol 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marat Bokoev, and the manager let it.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Marked 7.20. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Match21 Nov 2026
Point won or two lost for Akron?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Orenburg? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Akron this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Roberto Fernández 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
0‑2 to Spartak Moscow, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Akron
Roberto Fernández 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Akron get the job done against Rostov
A 1‑0 win over Rostov, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Akron training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Khetag Khosonov 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rodrigo Escoval, and the manager let it.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marked 7.84 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Akron had the best player on the pitch.
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Uneasy
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
A brace, and Slobodan Tedić takes the afternoon — 8.69
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Slobodan Tedić provided it, and the 8.69 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match10 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Akron
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Akron are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Akron this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Paulo Vitor and Akron agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Akron training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gilson Benchimol 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matías Giménez, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Akron this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jorge Gaitán, and the manager let it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Aleksa Đurasović 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Akron
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Akhmat will be the happier side with the point.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Stefan Lončar pops up at the right end — 5.79
5.79, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Akron
Kristijan Bistrović 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
Akron supporters have found a favourite in Yomar Rocha
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Yomar Rocha has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match19 Sep 2026
Sochi made Akron work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Gilson Benchimol 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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 ratings21 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.81 on the card, and the Akron support went home talking about one name.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Stefan Lončar is still paying for one afternoon at Akron
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Uneasy
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.53, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Akron this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match29 Aug 2026
Three points for Akron, 3‑2 the final word against Rubin in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Akron training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gilson Benchimol 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Vitaly Gudiev
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
5 new faces, and Akron are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Market31 Aug 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Akron know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market31 Aug 2026
Nobody sells a season ticket on a signing like this. Every manager who has been through a bad October wants one anyway, and Akron have gone and got theirs early.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Uneasy
Market10 Aug 2026
Akron say no — this time
The offer from Rostov for Marat Bokoev 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of Gilson Benchimol has come up in conversations Akron were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bryan Teixeira gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Bryan Teixeira has just signed for Akron, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kristijan Bistrović commits to Akron for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Akron this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
Akron spend $2.4M on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $2.4M for Bryan Teixeira, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“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 ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.