Léo Natel

Left Midfielder - Ordabasy
29 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Léo Natel

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The Ordabasy Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Bjørn Johnsen sends Ordabasy through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Bjørn Johnsen obliged against Shakhter. 4‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Ordabasy.

Player ratings

Bjørn Johnsen scores twice — 8.59

Two goals and a mark of 8.59 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Léo Natel scores twice — 8.58

Two goals and a mark of 8.58 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

Ordabasy make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Ordabasy have 3 straight wins of it.

Market

Ordabasy sell Yurii Vakulko for $320.0K

Yurii Vakulko has left for Astana in a $320.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

A row about effort at Ordabasy

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ivan Bašić

Ordabasy asked and Astana said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Ordabasy settle it inside twenty minutes

2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Shakhter spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.

Transfer targets

Ordabasy try to borrow Nnamdi Ahanonu

Astana have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief

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The Ordabasy Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Everton Moraes sends Ordabasy through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Everton Moraes obliged against Zhetysu. 3‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Ordabasy.

Squad

Everton Moraes takes the match ball home

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

Player ratings

Everton Moraes was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.29. 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.

Transfer targets

Tobol tell Ordabasy: Nauryzbek Zhagorov is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Tempers go at Ordabasy

Sergei Malyi 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Abinur Nūrymbet

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Squad

El'khan Astanov 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.

The dugout

Azat Kuat: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑0, already talking about the next one.

The dugout

Aleksa Amanović has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Ordabasy will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

2 Edition

The Ordabasy Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Both of them Léo Natel's — 8.66

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.66, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Only the photograph left for Guy-Marcelin Kilama

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Guy-Marcelin Kilama will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ordabasy the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Ordabasy say no — this time

The offer from Akzhaiyk for Yurii Vakulko 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.

Boardroom

Guy-Marcelin Kilama has agreed to leave Ordabasy 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

Tidiane Keita signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tidiane Keita and Ordabasy agree another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Ordabasy

Tidiane Keita 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.

Transfer targets

Ordabasy rebuffed over Luís Mata

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

Market

Ordabasy sell Victor Mudrac for $56.0K

Victor Mudrac has left for Tobol in a $56.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Match

Léo Natel sends Ordabasy past Irtysh

It finished 2‑0, and it was Léo Natel’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ordabasy.

In brief