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Bohdan Mykolayovych Shershun (Ukrainian: Богдан Миколайович Шершун; 14 May 1981 – 7 January 2024) was a Ukrainian footballer who played as a centre-back. He competed in international competitions for the Ukraine national team. 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. Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article