Volodymyr Herashchenko (; ; born 27 April 1968) is a Ukrainian professional

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coach and a former player.

Career

He made his professional debut in the

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in 1985 for Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. He became secretary general of the Ukrainian National Olympic Committee, but was suspended in May 2012 after being recorded offering a British newspaper reporter, posing as a

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, up to 100 Olympic tickets. He subsequently said he was 'humouring' the reporter and not really offering the tickets.

Honours

champion: 1988. * Soviet Top League runner-up: 1987, 1989. * Soviet Top League bronze: 1985. *

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winner: 1989. *

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winner: 1989. * USSR Federation Cup winner: 1989. * USSR Federation Cup finalist: 1990. *

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runner-up: 1993, 1997. * Russian Premier League bronze: 1996. * Russian Cup finalist: 1995. *

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bronze: 2001.

European club competitions

* UEFA Cup 1988–89 with

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: 1 game. * European Cup 1989–90 with FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk: 6 games. * UEFA Cup 1990–91 with FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk: 2 games. *

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with FC Rotor Volgograd: 2 games, 1 goal. *

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with FC Rotor Volgograd: 3 games. * UEFA Intertoto Cup 1996 with FC Rotor Volgograd: 3 games. * UEFA Cup 1997–98 with FC Rotor Volgograd: 5 games. *

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with FC Rotor Volgograd: 2 games. * UEFA Cup 2000–01 with FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk: 1 game.

References

1968 births Footballers from Dnipro Living people Russian men's footballers Men's association football defenders Ukrainian football managers Soviet men's footballers Ukrainian men's footballers Soviet Top League players Russian Premier League players Ukrainian Premier League players FC Dnipro players FC Dnipro-2 Dnipropetrovsk players FC Rotor Volgograd players FC Amkar Perm players FC Zorya Luhansk players 20th-century Russian sportsmen 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Ukraine-footy-defender-1960s-stub