Valerii Samar

Central Defender - Livyi Bereh
27 Aug 2026
Thursday
Process

Marked for Valerii Samar

4 Edition

The Livyi Bereh Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Volodymyr Shvets puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Livyi Bereh, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words at Livyi Bereh training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Valeriy Bondarenko 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.

Transfer targets

Livyi Bereh rebuffed over Vladyslav Kravets

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. LNZ have kept their man, and Livyi Bereh go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Andrii Yakymiv 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 Livyi Bereh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Simon Haloian reaches 100 appearances

100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.

The dugout

Valerii Samar 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

Dmytro Shastal rescues a point for Livyi Bereh

It needed Dmytro Shastal to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Nyva, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

Eduard Yaremchuk: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Squad

No place for Liubomyr Kuzyk in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Livyi Bereh are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Livyi Bereh Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Matvii Panchenko

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Livyi Bereh have done the hard part with Metalist, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Transfer targets

Danylo Ishchenko turns down Livyi Bereh

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Dynamo Kyiv keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Words exchanged at Livyi Bereh

Illia Kvasnytsia and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Liubomyr Kuzyk gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Liubomyr Kuzyk has just signed for Livyi Bereh, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Valeriy Bondarenko 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.

Match

Livyi Bereh come up short against Chornomorets

Chornomorets left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Eduard Yaremchuk to a room that had heard them before.

Market

Livyi Bereh buy the years ahead of Liubomyr Kuzyk

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Squad

Liubomyr Kuzyk stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Liubomyr Kuzyk and Livyi Bereh agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief