Today on 21 January the FC Karpaty Honorary president Petro Dyminskyy presented to the team a new head coach – Volodymyr Sharan, who is very well known to Lviv football people. Mr Sharan concluded with the green-and-whites three-year contract.

Dutch specialist Pavel Kucherov, which was an acting head coach during last matches of the championship’s first part, will work as one of assistants of Volodymyr Sharan.

Soon on the official web-site there will be an interview of the FC Karpaty Honorary president Petro Dyminskyy and the new team head coach Volodymyr Sharan.

INFORMATION

Volodymyr Bohdanovych SHARAN

• Born on 18 September 1971 in Marynopil, Ivano-Frankivsk region.

• Midfielder played, in particular, for Karpaty (Lviv), Dynamo (Kyiv) and Dnipro (Dnipropetrovsk). Took part in 1 match for the National team of Ukraine. Champion of Europe among young players born in 1990, a bronze medalist of the World Junior Championship held in 1991.

• Graduated from Lviv sports boarding school (now - Academy of FC Karpaty), studied at the Lviv State Institute of Physical Culture.

• He began his career as a Karpaty player in the season of 1989. In the 1991 season he transferred to Dynamo Kyiv. As a player of Dynamo he became champion of Ukraine three times (in 1993 1994 and 1995) and took the Cup of Ukraine in 1993.

• Later he played for Dnipro (Dnipropetrovsk) during 1995-1997 years, for FC Lviv and in the season 1998-2000 he returned to FC Karpaty, with which Mr Sharan won the bronze medals of the championship of Ukraine in 1998 and became a finalist of the Cup in 1999, and gained a place in the UEFA Cup as a result. In general, in championships of the USSR and Ukraine Mr Sharan played for the green-and-whites 98 matches and scored 16 goals. He finished playing career in FC Polihraftekhnika Oleksandriya (2001-2002).

• He worked as a coach in the following teams: Kryvbas-2 (Kryvyi Rih), Zirka (Kirovohrad), Zakarpattya (Uzhgorod), PFC Oleksandriya.

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