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Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Andrey Emeljanov out for 60 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Osipovichi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market23 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Maxim Samartsev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Osipovichi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Evgeniy Elezarenko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 67 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad16 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Osipovichi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Osipovichi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Denis Ssorin 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Daniil Kulikov is on it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“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.
Market16 Nov 2026
The name of Ilya Tishurov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Osipovichi say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 74 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Marat Vasilkevich 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Denis Ssorin 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.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 81 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
The instruction came from the boardroom and the dugout did not agree with it. Somebody will go, the fee will be called good business, and the manager will spend the season rebuilding around the space.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Andrey Emeljanov 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 127% of everything Osipovichi earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pavel Klenje, and the manager let it.
Market2 Nov 2026
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 88 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market26 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Osipovichi they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Osipovichi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Andrey Emeljanov out for 95 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Osipovichi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Osipovichi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Osipovichi
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Denis Ssorin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Daniil Kulikov is on it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Artem Krent 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 Artem Krent trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market19 Oct 2026
The name of Ilya Tishurov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Osipovichi say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Andrey Emeljanov out for 102 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Osipovichi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Artem Krent: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Osipovichi have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 27 days on the sidelines for Evgeniy Elezarenko, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Evgeniy Elezarenko 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Osipovichi
17 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Andrey Emeljanov out for 109 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Osipovichi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Evgeniy Elezarenko 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
139% of the income goes out in wages at Osipovichi
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 2026
116 days out for Andrey Emeljanov after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Osipovichi will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market28 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Maxim Samartsev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Osipovichi the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Maxim Samartsev has agreed terms with Lida for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Evgeniy Elezarenko and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets28 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Brest have kept their man, and Osipovichi go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Denis Ssorin 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.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 2026
123 days out for Andrey Emeljanov after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Osipovichi will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Osipovichi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dmitriy P. Denisenko, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
No place for Ivan Golomako in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Osipovichi are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Andrey Emeljanov out for 130 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Osipovichi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Osipovichi close the window on a squad of their own making
24 in and 16 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The medical room confirms 55 days on the sidelines for Evgeniy Elezarenko, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Everything agreed with Neman, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Osipovichi asked and Gomel said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match12 Sep 2026
Niva left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Andrey Emeljanov 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.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Artem Krent
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Andrey Emeljanov out for 137 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Osipovichi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Andrey Emeljanov 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Osipovichi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Denis Ssorin 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Osipovichi, another week without a signature from Dmitriy P. Denisenko.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Osipovichi are still strangers to each other
16 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
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Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Andrey Emeljanov out for 144 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Osipovichi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Marat Vasilkevich and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Uneasy
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Daniil Kulikov at 19 — 7.84
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Daniil Kulikov did not need any: 7.84, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Osipovichi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Osipovichi asked and Smorgon said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Daniil Kulikov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Daniil Kulikov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Osipovichi.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Ivan Mamavko
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
No place for Maxim Azarov in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Osipovichi are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Osipovichi
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Denis Ssorin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Smorgon 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.
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Crisis
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Osipovichi out
Out, 1‑2 to Slavia Mozyr, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑3 to Lida, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Dnepr Mogilev, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Osipovichi
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Osipovichi are no longer polite ones.
Market17 Aug 2026
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Andrey Emeljanov is a Osipovichi player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market17 Aug 2026
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Marat Vasilkevich 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andrey Emeljanov and Osipovichi agree another 2 years.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market10 Aug 2026
The shirt still fits. Dmitriy P. Denisenko is back at Osipovichi, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ilya Tishurov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Osipovichi asked and Gomel said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Anton Sivakov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mikalai Dragun is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Artem Kavalyou has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Osipovichi will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Osipovichi are still strangers to each other
14 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Rashid Yevloev arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Rashid Yevloev has, at Osipovichi, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Artem Zimin and Osipovichi agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Marat Vasilkevich 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.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Ivan Stosh
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market3 Aug 2026
Signings arrive with a picture of the club in their head, and this one’s picture was bigger than the building. He will play well and he will be gone, in that order, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Slavia Mozyr 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Torpedo-BelAZ 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.