24 Aug 2026
Monday
Process
3 Edition

The Oleksandriya Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Serhiy Buletsa runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Oleksandriya

Viktor Dolhyi 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.

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Fernando Henrique takes the honours

Marked 7.60 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Oleksandriya had the best player on the pitch.

Squad

Hussayn Touati 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.

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The one thing Bryan Castillo could not do

Shots: 11, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

Market

Experience through the door at Oleksandriya

Maximiliano Ferreira arrives at 37 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

Market

Sebastián D'Angelo brings the grey hairs Oleksandriya lacked

At 37, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

Match

No goals between Oleksandriya and Kolos

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Kolos will be the happier side with the point.

Market

Talks stall between Oleksandriya and Maksym Hryso

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Oleksandriya Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Karpaty come back empty-handed

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

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Serhiy Buletsa

Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Viktor Dolhyi

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Tedi Cara signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tedi Cara and Oleksandriya agree another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Oleksandriya

Mauro Rodrigues 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

No hiding place for Tedi Cara

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

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Miguel Campos

Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Market

Oleksandriya and Bohdan Butko 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.

Market

Nobody at Oleksandriya has picked up the phone to Serhiy Buletsa

48 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

In brief

1 Edition

The Oleksandriya Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Serhiy Buletsa

Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Bryan Castillo 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 Oleksandriya, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Karpaty join the queue for Bryan Castillo

Add another name to the list: Karpaty have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Bryan Castillo. The answer from Oleksandriya has not changed — yet.

Squad

Miguel Campos signs on for more

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

Squad

Mauro Rodrigues 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 Oleksandriya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

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Papa Ndiaga Yade in the eights

A performance of 9.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

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Fernando Henrique in the eights

A performance of 8.78 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Oleksandriya see off Veres

Three points for Oleksandriya, 1‑0 the final word against Veres in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Miguel Campos shuts the door

Defensive actions: 19, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

In brief