David Valero

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Feniks
5 Sep 2026
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The Feniks Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match26 Aug 2026

The cup run ends for Feniks

1‑3 against Zorya, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Match29 Aug 2026

Serhii Kyslenko breaks Chernihiv hearts

Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Serhii Kyslenko scored in the 88th minute, Chernihiv had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Feniks took the lot.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Rostyslav Rusyn runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market31 Aug 2026

Andrii Kusyi 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 Feniks can pretend not to have heard.

Market31 Aug 2026

Feniks turn down Livyi Bereh for Andrii Kusyi

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Words at Feniks training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oleksandr Chornomorets 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.

Match29 Aug 2026

Serhii Kyslenko sends Feniks past Chernihiv

It finished 2‑1, and it was Serhii Kyslenko’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Feniks.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Oleksandr Chornomorets 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

David Valero 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.

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The Feniks Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match15 Aug 2026

Nyva punish Feniks for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Serhii Kyslenko will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Feniks escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

A brace, and Serhii Kyslenko takes the afternoon — 8.33

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Serhii Kyslenko provided it, and the 8.33 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market17 Aug 2026

Metalist come back empty-handed

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

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Feniks

Oleksandr Chornomorets 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Nyva take the points off Feniks

Beaten 3‑4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Rostyslav Rusyn was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.08. 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.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near David Valero

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad17 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Denys Balan

“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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Gaël Nlundulu knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Gaël Nlundulu trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief