Bohdan Mykolayovych Shershun (Ukrainian: Богдан Миколайович Шершун; 14 May 1981 – 7 January 2024) was a Ukrainian footballer who played as a centre-back. He competed in international competitions for the Ukraine national team.
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| Full name | Bohdan Mykolayovych Shershun | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 14 May 1981 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Khmelnytskyi, Ukrainian SSR, USSR | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 7 January 2024 (aged 42) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Belgium | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Centre-back | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Podillia Khmelnytskyi | |||||||||||||||||
| DVUFK Dnipropetrovsk | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1997–2002 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 52 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1997–2001 | →Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk | 40 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | →Dnipro-3 Dnipropetrovsk | 8 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2002–2005 | CSKA Moscow | 76 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2005–2010 | Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk | 79 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | → Arsenal Kyiv (loan) | 25 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2012 | Arsenal Kyiv | 17 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | → Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih (loan) | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih | 8 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Volyn Lutsk | 21 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2015–2017 | Sluch Starokostiantyniv | 28 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2003 | Ukraine U21 | 25 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2006 | Ukraine | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| Sluch Starokostiantyniv (assistant) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Shershun was born in a family of a football coach Mykola Shershun who served as an assistant coach with Vitaliy Kvartsianyi in Podillia[1] and previously played at regional level and served as a referee for some time (1991–1993). Shershun started to play football at academy of the hometown's Podillia[2] and later the Dnipro sports college.[1] Among first coaches of Shershun was Ihor Vetrohonov, a native of Dnipro.[1] In 1997 and 1998 he was a member of the Ukraine national under-16 football team participating in the continental competitions.
At professional competitions Shershun debuted in 1997 for FC Dnipro[3] that was managed by Vyacheslav Hroznyi and later Mykola Fedorenko.[1] In 1997 Kvartsianyi was offering Shershun to join his team (Podillia), but he refused.[1] In 2002 at age of 21[1] (more precisely 20, during the 2001–02 season's winter break)[4] he moved to play for PFC CSKA Moscow[3] that picked him up as a former member of Ukrainian squad on finals of the Euro 2000 (under-18) and the 2001 World Championship (under-20). With CSKA, Shershun won the UEFA Cup,[5] but didn't play in the final.[1] According to Kvartsianyi, Shershun was also invited to Dynamo, but he believed that due to the Dynamo's training regime of Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Shershun chose to stay with Dnipro and later joining CSKA.[1]
In 2005 Shershun was very happy to sign a new contract with his native club.[4] He also was very complimentary about the level of the Russian football yet decided not to bother staying in the Russian Federation.[4] Shershun didn't consider his transfer to Dnipro as a "step down" in his career.[4]
He signed 2+1 years contract with Arsenal Kyiv on 21 July 2010.[6] After Arsenal, Shershun signed with Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih that was led by Vitaliy Kvartsianyi and later, after Kryvbas went bankrupt, along with Kvartsianyi transferred to Volyn Lutsk.[1]
Shershun retired from professional football in 2014[3] and enrolled into the FFU (UAF today) coaching courses.[7] He said that he was not interested to continue his career in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, while does not want to go to Russia due to political situation.[7] For couple of more seasons, 2015 to 2017, he played at regional level for Sluch Starokostiantyniv (Khmelnytskyi Oblast).[1]
In 2019, Shershun said that the head coach of CSKA and the Russian national football team Valery Gazzaev offered him to apply for a Russian passport, promising to regularly invite him to the Russian national team, but the player refused.[5] After this conversation, Shershun, according to his own words, his participation in matches has decreased.
Before 2024 he served as a football expert on television.[3]
Shershun died on 7 January 2024, at the age of 42, after a long illness.[8]
Honours
editTeam
editDnipro
- Ukrainian Premier League third place: 2000–01
CSKA Moscow
- Russian Football Premier League: 2003, 2005
- Russian Cup: 2002, 2005
- Russian Super Cup: 2004
- UEFA Cup: 2005
- UEFA Super Cup runner-up: 2005
Ukraine
- UEFA European Under-19 Championship runner-up: 2000
Individual
edit- Merited Master of Sports[2]
Personal life
editShershun was married.[4]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e f g h i j ""Шершуна запрошували в Динамо Лобановського": разом із Кварцяним згадуємо ексзахисника Дніпра та збірної України". 9 January 2024. Archived from the original on 9 January 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ^ a b "Famous pupils of Podillia youth club". Archived from the original on 20 September 2013. Retrieved 25 June 2013.
- ^ a b c d "Bohdan Shershun passed away (Пішов з життя Богдан Шершун)". Archived from the original on 9 January 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ^ a b c d e "Богдан Шершун: "Никакие деньги не заменят радость чемпионства"". Archived from the original on 9 January 2024. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ^ a b [lenta.ru/news/2019/04/11/shershun/ "Украинский футболист вспомнил об отказе стать россиянином"]. lenta.ru. 11 April 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2024.
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ Шершун - полноправный игрок Арсенала К (in Ukrainian). Football.ua. 21 June 2010.
- ^ a b "Богдан Шершун отказался играть в России". 24 November 2014. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
- ^ У віці 42-ох років помер Богдан Шершун (in Ukrainian). ua-football.com. 8 January 2024.
External links
edit- Bohdan Shershun at National-Football-Teams.com
- Bohdan Shershun at Official FFU Site (in Ukrainian)
- Bohdan Shershun at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)