Serhiy Vladimirovich Perhun ' onMouseout='HidePop("62517")' href="/topics/Dnipropetrovsk">Dnipropetrovsk

Dnipropetrovsk

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, USSR; died 28 August 2001) was a Ukrainian

Ukraine

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 footballer

Football (soccer)

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. He is the only player to date in the history of the Russian Premier League

Russian Premier League

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 to die from injuries sustained during an official game.

• 1993 - 1998 Played for FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
  FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
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• 1999 - 2000 First choice goalkeeper for Sheriff Tiraspol
  FC Sheriff Tiraspol
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• 2001 First choice goalkeeper for CSKA Moscow.

Serhiy was also capped by the Ukraine national football team

Ukraine national football team

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 in a friendly game against Latvia on 15 August 2001. He played in the second half of the match.

Death

On 19 August 2001, during the game against Anzhi Makhachkala

FC Anzhi Makhachkala

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, he collided head-to-head with Anzhi forward Budun Budunov

Budun Budunov

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 who also sustained serious head trauma during the collision. At first, the injury appeared to be minor and substituted Perkhun was quickly released by doctors with the diagnosis of a broken nose. However he became suddenly coma

Coma

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tose on the way to the airport and died nine days later from a brain hemorrhage.