Volodymyr Herashchenko

Volodymyr Gerashchenko

Personal information
Full name	Volodymyr Vasylyovych Gerashchenko
Date of birth	27 April 1968
Place of birth	Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current team	Retired
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1984-1990	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	43	(0)
1991-1998	FC Rotor Volgograd	188	(13)
1999	FC Amkar Perm	28	(1)
1999-2003	FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk	49	(5)
2003-2004	FC Zorya Luhansk	8	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 January 2009. † Appearances (goals)

Volodymyr Vasylyovych Gerashchenko (Ukrainian: Володимир Васильович Геращенко; Russian: Владимир Васильевич Геращенко; born 27 April 1968 in Dnipropetrovsk) is a retired Ukrainian professional footballer. He made his professional debut in the Soviet Top League in 1985 for FC 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

1. Career stats by KLISF
2. "London 2012 Olympics: Ukraine suspends official Volodymyr Gerashchenko after he is filmed ‘selling’ Olympic tickets". Telegraph. Retrieved 25 May 2012.