Sharan, Vladimir Bogdanovich

Game career

Pupil of the Youth Sports School of Burshtyn (the first coach is M. S. Sit) ^[2] and the Lviv sports boarding school.

He began his performances at the Karpaty club (Lviv) , which played in the second league. As part of the Lviv team, he made his debut on the day of his 18th birthday ^[3] .

From adolescence, he attracted the attention of coaches of the youth teams of the USSR, performed at many international tournaments. With the junior national team of the USSR (U-18) he won gold medals of the European Championship 1990, and with the youth team (U-20) he became the third winner of the World Cup 91.

In 1991 he accepted the invitation Dynamo (Kiev) and began to play in the major league. The departure of the leading Kiev players to foreign clubs helped him gain a foothold in the composition.

In autumn 1991 he made his debut in European competition.

Speaking already in the championship of Ukraine twice (1993 and 1994), he was the champion of the country. In Dynamo he played an attacker, then a midfielder, and with the advent of Fomenko he was retrained as a left-back.

In 1994 he moved to the Dnieper , as it was less likely to become the basis of Kiev. He played for 3 years in Dnepropetrovsk, was respected by the team’s head coaches - Bernd Stange and Vyacheslav the Terrible .

From the 1997/98 season he played again in the Carpathians. However, soon after the transition, he was injured and had to lie down for a meniscus cutting operation. Nevertheless, having returned to the ranks he helped the team to take the bronze medals of the championship.

In 2001, due to disagreements with the new management of the club, he moved to another major league club - to Polygraphtehnika , to Roman Pokora .

He played 1 match for the Ukrainian national team , on November 11, 1995, as part of the qualifying round for the 1996 European Championship with the Italian national team .

Coaching career

Soon after the end of his playing career, he became a coach. First he coached the second team of Kryvbas, then the youth squad of Kryvbas. In 2005, he was the head coach of the Kirovograd Zvezda ^[4] . In 2007-2008, he was the head coach of the Transcarpathian club. He left the team due to non-payment of wages ^[3] .

From February 2010 to December 2011, he was the head coach of PFC Alexandria. After the position of the head coach was offered, Leonid Buryak stated that he did not like the position of the club’s sports director and he left the club with an assistant and friend A. Kuptsov ^[5] . In January 2012, he was appointed head coach of the Lviv Carpathians. March 25, 2012 due to unsatisfactory results of the Carpathians, Sharan resigns ^[6] .

Since June 12, 2013 - head coach of PFC Alexandria ^[7] . During this time, under his leadership, the team consistently won silver (2013/14) and gold (2014/15) of the first league, having issued a return to the Premier League. The best result of the team in UPL - bronze medals in the season 2018/19 ; in the Ukrainian Cup, the Sharan team reached the semifinals in the 2015/16 season , and the club also played in the Europa League for two seasons in a row ( 2016/17 and 2017/18 ), but their participation ended at the qualification stages.

As a player

Dynamo (Kiev)

• Champion of Ukraine (2): 1992/93 , 1993/94
• Cup Winner of Ukraine : 1992/93
• Silver medalist of the championship of Ukraine: 1992

Dnipro (Dnepropetrovsk)

• Finalist of the Cup of Ukraine (2): 1994/95 , 1996/97
• Bronze medalist of the championship of Ukraine (2): 1994/95 , 1995/96

"Carpathians" (Lviv)

• Finalist of the Cup of Ukraine : 1998/99

USSR national team (U-19)

• European Champion : 1990

As a trainer

"Alexandria"

• Winner of the First League of Ukraine (2): 2010/11 , 2014/15
• Silver medalist of the First League of Ukraine: 2013/14
• Ukrainian Premier League bronze medalist: 2018/19

• Profile on the website of the Ukrainian Football Association (in Ukrainian)
• Profile on Football Ukraine website
• Vladimir SHARAN: “That team would not have pulled Lucescu”