An independent soccer newsroom built to verify every minute and frame pitchside.
Penalnaro is an Austin sports editorial desk directed by Elena Petrova. Founded in 2021, we bring newsroom discipline to soccer clubs, youth development academies, and regional tournament organizers across Texas, treating local fixtures with the same journalistic rigor as professional leagues.
Club board evaluating media partners. Previous vendor was an out-of-state freelancer who used generic stock graphics, misidentified starting defenders, and never attended a match.
Elena Petrova and Penalnaro: Pitchside newsroom in Austin, Texas.
Turnkey matchday journalism, pitchside capture, and unit pricing.
Academy has 14 youth teams competing across spring and fall leagues. President requires transparent breakdown of shooting days, post-production hourly rates, and monthly retainer commitments.
Match suspended at minute 68 due to lightning alert. Coach needs to know if the desk can be reached immediately by phone or if inquiries go to an unmonitored ticket queue.
Direct reachability, live fixture desk, and response SLA.
How Penalnaro operates along the touchline.
Operating a camera along a live athletic boundary requires professional discipline. We enforce four fundamental standards on every assignment:
We do not dispute referee decisions, we never show video replays to coaching staff or match officials during play, and we remain outside the assistant referee's running corridor at all times.
In the event of serious on-pitch player injuries or medical staff intervention, cameras are pointed down. We do not publish sensationalized footage of injured youth players under any circumstance.
Goal times, card incidents, and substitution records are synchronized directly with the official referee sheet. We never invent match stats or misattribute goals for social engagement.
Under our production agreements, clubs receive full operational rights to distribute finished video reels and roster photographs across their team platforms without recurring licensing royalties.
Honest boundaries
We believe in absolute transparency about what Penalnaro does not do:
- We do not provide uncredited stock photography or fake 3D renders.
- We do not enter the technical area or pitch without formal league accreditation.
- We do not use automated AI writing tools to generate fake match reports.
- We do not quote speculative prices: our rates are strictly 150–300 USD/hr, 500 USD/session, 444 USD/reel, 555 USD/half-day, and 3000–7500 USD/mo.
Read our binding Terms of Service and Service Standards & SLA for complete operational rules.
Since 2021, Elena Petrova has covered over 300 competitive youth matches and adult league fixtures across Central Texas. Every published match recap and reel reflects the discipline of the sport.
Contact Elena Petrova & Desk
Reach out directly to discuss club media day shoots, tournament landing hubs, vertical highlight reels, or seasonal editorial retainers.