Former Dnipro defender and captain Vladimir Gerashchenko, who played for this team in the second half of the 80s of the last century, told how he could have ended up in Dynamo Kiev.
Vladimir Gerashchenko“I got married early, and when the time came to serve in the army, our first child was already born. I was supposed to serve in Dynamo Kiev, but I did not really want to go to Lobanovsky. I did not like the football that Dynamo preached.
In addition, there was a crazy selection, some of those who remained in the Dynamo structure dissolved there. They "died" like footballers. That's when Zhizdik (Gennady Zhizdik, former coach of Dnipro, — ed.) and suggested that my wife and I make a knight's move - the second child, which gave reason not to go to serve in the army.
Then my wife and I were sent to Sochi, to a government sanatorium with the task of having a second child. The move was successful. Soon a daughter was born in our family, and I stayed to play in Dnipro," Gerashchenko quotes fanday.
