Volodymyr Herashchenko (Ukrainian: Володимир Васильович Геращенко; Russian: Владимир Васильевич Геращенко; born 27 April 1968) is a Ukrainian professional football coach and a former player.
Career
He made his professional debut in the Soviet Top League in 1985 for Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.[1]
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 tout, up to 100 Olympic tickets. He subsequently said he was 'humouring' the reporter and not really offering the tickets.[2]
Honours
- Soviet Top League champion: 1988.
- Soviet Top League runner-up: 1987, 1989.
- Soviet Top League bronze: 1985.
- Soviet Cup winner: 1989.
- USSR Super Cup winner: 1989.
- USSR Federation Cup winner: 1989.
- USSR Federation Cup finalist: 1990.
- Russian Premier League runner-up: 1993, 1997.
- Russian Premier League bronze: 1996.
- Russian Cup finalist: 1995.
- Ukrainian Premier League bronze: 2001.
European club competitions
- UEFA Cup 1988–89 with FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk: 1 game.
- European Cup 1989–90 with FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk: 6 games.
- UEFA Cup 1990–91 with FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk: 2 games.
- UEFA Cup 1994–95 with FC Rotor Volgograd: 2 games, 1 goal.
- UEFA Cup 1995–96 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.
- UEFA Cup 1998–99 with FC Rotor Volgograd: 2 games.
- UEFA Cup 2000–01 with FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk: 1 game.
References
- ^ Volodymyr Herashchenko at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)
- ^ "London 2012 Olympics: Ukraine suspends official Volodymyr Gerashchenko after he is filmed 'selling' Olympic tickets". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 25 May 2012.