Ivan Shariy

Ivan Shariy, 2016
Personal information
Full name	Ivan Hryhorovych Shariy
Date of birth	(1957-11-24) 24 November 1957 (age 67)
Place of birth	Poltava, Ukrainian SSR
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	Poltava sports school[1]
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1974–1975	Kolos Poltava	33	(13)
1976–1978	Dynamo Kyiv	2	(0)
1978	→ Kolos Poltava	3	(1)
1978	Dinamo Minsk	19	(4)
1979	Metalurh Zaporizhia	43	(31)
1980	Dynamo Kyiv	0	(0)
1980	Metalurh Zaporizhia	32	(18)
1980–1985	Chornomorets Odesa	126	(25)
1986	Nistru Chisinau	33	(8)
1987–1989	Vorskla Poltava	137	(63)
1989–1990	Etar Veliko Tarnovo	12	(2)
1990	Vorskla Poltava	15	(9)
1991	Nyva Vinnytsia	38	(15)
1992	Hranyt Sharhorod	?	(3)
1993	Vorskla Poltava	4	(1)
1994	Birzula Kotovsk	13	(8)
1995–1999	Vorskla Poltava	82	(27)
1997	→ Vorskla-2 Poltava	4	(1)
1998	→ Kremin Kremenchuk (loan)	19	(10)
1998	→ Hirnyk-Sport Komsomolsk (loan)	2	(0)
1998	→ Vorskla-2 Poltava	8	(2)
Managerial career
1998	Vorskla Poltava (interim)
1998–2001	Vorskla-2 Poltava
2001–2003	Vorskla Poltava (assistant)
2006	Spartak Sumy
200?–2009	Horpynko sports school (director)
2009	Poltava (interim)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ivan Shariy (Ukrainian: Іван Григорович Шарій; born 24 November 1957) is a former Soviet and Ukrainian footballer and Ukrainian football manager.

Native of Poltava, Shariy played football for almost a quarter of century. He started to play football at a local Poltava sports school.^[2] Viktor Nosov who at that time was a head coach of the Vorskla Poltava's predecessor Kolos invited Shariy to the team of masters^[a] that played at the Soviet Second League when Shariy just turned 16.^[2] Shariy debuted coming out as a substitute during the game against Avtomobilist^[2] (later better known as FC Polissya Zhytomyr). Soon he was noticed by scouts of the Soviet Top League from Dynamo Kyiv and CSKA Moscow and in 1976 joined the Kyivan team.^[2]

Due to strong competition for a spot on the main team and the reserve squad, Shariy soon left Dynamo in Kiev for another in Minsk that was coached by Oleh Bazylevych helping the main Belarusian team with promotion to the Soviet Top League.^[2] Following promotion of Dinamo Minsk, Shariy decided to stay and continue to play at the Soviet First League joining FC Metalurh Zaporizhia for which he scored a notable number of goals.^[2] After couple of seasons Shariy tried to return to Kiev and played for Dynamo of Valeriy Lobanovsky few games in the Soviet Cup, but later joined another Soviet Top League team, Chornomorets Odesa, that was coached by Nikita Simonyan.^[2] In Chornomorets Shariy spent the next six seasons.^[2] During his stay in Odessa Shariy continued to receive offers from PFC CSKA Moscow, particularly from Sergei Shaposhnikov.^[2]

Following Chornomorets, the Shariy's career took a dive and in late 1980s he played for lower tier clubs Nistru Kishinev and the recently revived Vorskla Poltava (in place of Kolos) from native Poltava.^[2] In 1990 Shariy left for Bulgaria where he played for Etar Veliko Tarnovo which placed third in the national top league that season.^[2] During that season he played alongside such players like Krasimir Balakov, Ilian Kiriakov, and Tsanko Tsvetanov.^[2] Soon after return from Bulgaria, Shariy continued to play for few seasons in lower tiers before the dissolution of the Soviet Union and in 1992 decided to retire from professional football.^[2] He played at amateur level for Hranit Sharhorod, Birzuli Podilsk and Velta Poltava. He was a playing manager in Velta and won the Poltava Oblast championship and cup and was named in team of the year in 1995.^[3][4]

After almost three year break from professional football in 1995 the Vorskla head coach Viktor Pozhechevskyi invited Shariy who was 39 years old to the club where he contributed to Vorskla's win of the Persha Liha (tier 2).^[2] After few seasons he returned to amateurs where he continued to play until around 2015.

Shariy also played couple of games at continental club competitions, the UEFA Cup, at first in the 1985–86 UEFA Cup for Chornomorets Odesa that represented the Soviet Union and hosted German Werder Bremen when he came out to substitute Igor Savelyev on the 66th minute.^[5] The second his game Shariy played on August 12, 1997 for FC Vorskla Poltava which represented Ukraine in away game against Belgian Anderlecht coming on as a substitute for Serhiy Chuichenko on the 83rd minute.^[6]

On 18 May 1999, Shariy set a record during the Ukrainian Premier League game against SC Mykolaiv for coming out on the field at the age of 41.^[7] The Ukrainian First League top scorer Serhiy Chuichenko considered Shariy to be the best footballer in history of Poltava football.^[8]

On 5 June 2009, he was appointed as an interim head coach of FC Poltava, while Shariy was to be assisted by Oleh Morhun.^[9] Shariy who until his appointed was a director of the Ivan Horpynko sports school in Poltava replaced the FC Poltava head coach Oleksandr Omelchuk.

• Lomov, Anatolii; Stadnychenko, Oleksandr (2009), 100 Років Полтавському Футболу [100 Years of Poltava Football] (in Ukrainian), Poltava: Poltava, ISBN 978-966-97035-0-7
• Lomov, Anatolii; Kryvorotko, Serhii (2010), Энциклопедия Полтавского Футбола (1909-2010) [Encyclopedia of Poltava Football (1909-2010)] (in Russian), Poltava: OOO "ASMI", ISBN 978-966-182-118-6

• Ivan Shariy at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)
• Ivan Shariy at UAF and archived FFU page (in Ukrainian)