FCI Tallinn U20

8 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process
14 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Alexandr Seraskhov damages knee ligaments — 50 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 50 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Ángel Lezama 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 FCI Tallinn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

No hiding place for Alexandr Seraskhov

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

In brief

Back issues
13 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Alexandr Seraskhov damages knee ligaments — 57 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 57 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Tempers go at FCI Tallinn

José Graterol 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.

Squad

Sergei Kait 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.

In brief

12 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ken Tamm breaks a bone — 16 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

FCI Tallinn lose Konstantin Marin

57 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

José Graterol 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 FCI Tallinn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

11 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ken Tamm breaks a bone — 23 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Tempers go at FCI Tallinn

José Graterol 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Sergei Ainsalu at FCI Tallinn

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sergei Ainsalu is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

In brief

10 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Ken Tamm out for 31 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FCI Tallinn will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Home is on Filip Jović's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; FCI Tallinn are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad

Konstantin Marin signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Konstantin Marin commits to FCI Tallinn for another 1 years.

In brief

9 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Ken Tamm out for 38 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FCI Tallinn will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Tempers go at FCI Tallinn

Konstantin Marin 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.

Squad

FCI Tallinn count the cost of losing Konstantin Mets

25 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief

8 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ken Tamm breaks a bone — 46 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 46 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Konstantin Marin 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 FCI Tallinn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Loan watch

Ken Ojamaa has seen enough of Narva Trans

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at FCI Tallinn, and 0 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

7 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ken Tamm breaks a bone — 53 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 53 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Tempers go at FCI Tallinn

Ángel Lezama 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.

Loan watch

Sergei Ainsalu counts the days

“I watch every FCI Tallinn game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Narva Trans runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad

Sergei Kait 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.

Squad

When it matters, Ángel Lezama plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market

FCI Tallinn and Alexandr Seraskhov are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

6 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Sander Kallaste sold, and an era ends

$430.0K from Aktobe for Sander Kallaste. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.

Squad

A fracture rules Ken Tamm out for 61 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FCI Tallinn will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Karl Puri 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 FCI Tallinn, and it is not being withdrawn.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $430.0K sale of Sander Kallaste

He is going to Aktobe, the club has $430.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market

FCI Tallinn turn down Parnu for Joonas Baranov

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

Squad

José Graterol 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 FCI Tallinn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

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  • Squad Words at FCI Tallinn training over how hard people work
5 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Ken Tamm out for 68 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FCI Tallinn will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Silver Dmitrijev asks to leave FCI Tallinn

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tempers go at FCI Tallinn

José Graterol 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.

Squad

FCI Tallinn count the cost of losing Konstantin Mets

56 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

This league is too small for José Graterol

He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. FCI Tallinn will not keep him by pretending otherwise.

Market

Parnu expected to open talks for Joonas Baranov

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. FCI Tallinn will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

4 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The small margins put FCI Tallinn out

Out, 2‑4 to Narva Trans, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad

A fracture rules Ken Tamm out for 75 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FCI Tallinn will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Konstantin Igonen 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 FCI Tallinn can pretend not to have heard.

The terraces

The ground has had enough

“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 26 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.

Player ratings

A first appearance Joonas Marin will want to forget — 5.10

Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.10, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.

Player ratings

Brent Ainsalu goes up and wins it — 7.99

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.99 for the rest of it.

Market

Aktobe join the queue for Sander Kallaste

Add another name to the list: Aktobe have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Sander Kallaste. The answer from FCI Tallinn has not changed — yet.

Squad

José Graterol 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 FCI Tallinn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

FCI Tallinn get their man

The chase for Ramon Smirnov ended with $7.0K changing hands and Paide out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.

In brief

3 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Ken Tamm out for 82 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason FCI Tallinn will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

FCI Tallinn turn down Flora for Konstantin Igonen

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

Squad

Tempers go at FCI Tallinn

Ángel Lezama 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.

Squad

Roberto Siucho 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.

Squad

FCI Tallinn count the cost of losing Brent Puri

25 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market

The Sander Baranov conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Tulevik will make the call about Sander Baranov this week. FCI Tallinn have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief

2 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Ken Tamm breaks a bone — 89 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 89 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Konstantin Marin stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Konstantin Marin and FCI Tallinn agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at FCI Tallinn

Konstantin Marin 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.

Boardroom

FCI Tallinn agree a free transfer for Kevin Anderson

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.

Squad

Words at FCI Tallinn training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Jović 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.

Market

Karl Puri is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at FCI Tallinn has been clear about where Karl Puri stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

1 Edition

The FCI Tallinn Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Konstantin Marin 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 FCI Tallinn this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Joonas Puri signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Joonas Puri and FCI Tallinn agree another 2 years.

Squad

Words at FCI Tallinn training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brent Ainsalu 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.

Market

FCI Tallinn and Alexandr Seraskhov are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

Konstantin Marin asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market

24 months and counting on Joonas Puri

Still no offer on the table, and Joonas Puri’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief