As already reported, last Sunday, 16 July, two Crimean clubs - "Sevastopol" and "Rubin Yalta" illegally started in the second league of the Russian championship.
Matvey Guiganov and Dmitry Matvienko (photo: fcsevastopol.ru)There are some very interesting characters in the Sevastopol team.
28-year-old defender Matvey Guiganov is the son of Dynamo Kyiv footballer Alexander Guiganov, who was born in Sevastopol. Dad's career in the Ukrainian capital did not go well, as it was said, because of an excessive addiction to alcohol. He returned to Crimea, where his career went downhill smoothly. After Russia's occupation of the peninsula, Guiganov Sr. continued to work as a coach. As for Guiganov Junior, his career is also difficult to call stellar. Except that he travelled quite a bit - from Lithuania to Uzbekistan, via Russia, of course.
And 31-year-old defender Dmytro Matvienko is the brother-in-law of Shakhtar and Ukraine national team player Mykola Matvienko. The family lived in Saki, where both brothers were born. Before the occupation, Dmytro managed to play in Olympik and Tavria. Then he travelled to Transnistria and resurfaced in Crimea again - already with Russian citizenship.
