Bohdan Shershun

Shershun was born in a family of a football coach Mykola Shershun who served as an assistant coach with Vitaliy Kvartsianyi in Podillia and previously played at regional level and served as a referee for some time (1991–1993). Shershun started to play football at academy of the hometown's Podillia and later the Dnipro sports college. Among first coaches of Shershun was Ihor Vetrohonov, a native of Dnipro. In 1997 and 1998 he was a member of the Ukraine national under-16 football team participating in the continental competitions. At professional competitions Shershun debuted in 1997 for FC Dnipro that was managed by Vyacheslav Hroznyi and later Mykola Fedorenko. In 1997 Kvartsianyi was offering Shershun to join his team (Podillia), but he refused. In 2002 at age of 21 (more precisely 20, during the 2001–02 season's winter break) he moved to play for PFC CSKA Moscow that picked him up as a former member of Ukrainian squad on finals of the Euro 2000 (under-18) and the 2001 World Championship (under-20). With CSKA, Shershun won the UEFA Cup, but didn't play in the final. According to Kvartsianyi, Shershun was also invited to Dynamo, but he believed that due to the Dynamo's training regime of Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Shershun chose to stay with Dnipro and later joining CSKA. In 2005 Shershun was very happy to sign a new contract with his native club. He also was very complimentary about the level of the Russian football yet decided not to bother staying in the Russian Federation.…

Shershun was married.

Team

Dnipro

Ukrainian Premier League third place: 2000–01 CSKA Moscow

Russian Football Premier League: 2003, 2005 Russian Cup: 2002, 2005 Russian Super Cup: 2004 UEFA Cup: 2005 UEFA Super Cup runner-up: 2005 Ukraine

UEFA European Under-19 Championship runner-up: 2000

Individual

Merited Master of Sports