Serhii Sten

Left Midfielder - Kudrivka
7 Mar 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Serhii Sten

16 Edition

The Kudrivka Sentinel

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Kudrivka sink to position 15

5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad

A falling-out at Kudrivka

Kaya Makosso and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at Kudrivka training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kostiantyn Bychek 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Kostiantyn Bychek

“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.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Kostiantyn Bychek

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Kudrivka told Kostiantyn Bychek something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Serhii Sten

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Veres in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

The dugout

A door opens for Bohdan Vekliak

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

The dugout

Roman Liopka 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 Roman Liopka trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Looking ahead

An away day at Veres next for Kudrivka

They sit in position 11 and they will be waiting. Away form is where a season shows its true character, and this side has a point to make about its own.

In brief

Back issues
13 Edition

The Kudrivka Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

10 matches without a win for Kudrivka

The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Kudrivka are no longer polite ones.

Squad

6 saves: Anton Yashkov was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad

Kaya Makosso 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 Kudrivka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Serhii Sten did the work nobody counts — 6.47

14 combined actions and 6.47. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

Squad

Yevhen Smyrnyi 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Yevhenii Pasich

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Oleksandriya take the points off Kudrivka

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Yevhen Smyrnyi 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.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Pavlo Popov left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

11 Edition

The Kudrivka Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tymofii Slobodianiuk is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Words exchanged at Kudrivka

Kaya Makosso 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

A row about effort at Kudrivka

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Maksym Melnychuk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

No hiding place for Bohdan Vekliak

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bohdan Vekliak, and the manager let it.

Looking ahead

Serhii Sten faces his old club

Epicentr next, and one man in the Kudrivka dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Market

The Kyrylo Lavuta story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Kyrylo Lavuta signs something — a contract at Kudrivka or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief