Bogdan, the Ukrainian from Navacerrada … who came to Spain by bus from his country when he was 5 years old

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Con 5 years old he got on a bus, from his native Ukraine, bound for Spain. In the middle of winter and after almost three nights traveling, the Milovanov Milivanova family arrived in Navacerrada, Madrid town to house the family of Bogdan, since his aunt Olgha He had lived there for two years. In fact, it was his mother’s sister who advised them to change their residence, since things were not good in the Ukraine.

Much cost them let His town, Lugansk, to start over, but seek a better life for their children, Eughenio and Bogdan, He could with everything. They left behind their home, part of the family, their jobs – their father, Oleg, was a firefighter and his mother, Anzhelika, gym teacher in a school-. Many tears shed in search of greater happiness.

The days were hard for parents of the Sporting footballer, but Eughenio and Bogdan quickly joined to his new home, school, classmates, friends and why not? football was key to their full integration, especially for Bogdan. Seeing the ‘little ones’ happy was worth everything last.

Bogdan has great memories from when they lived with their uncles the first months after arriving in Spain. Then they became independent, although the family houses were nearby. And is that for the defender, the family is fundamental in their life.

The current defense of the Sporting started playing in Spain in the Navacerrada futsal team, since his brother also played there in a higher category, but after a few years he was his own mother, Anzhelika, the one who signed him up for the Atlético School that he had in Alcobendas. There began his complicity with big football.

El Sanse, your springboard

After going through the Alcobendas (Third) and the subsidiary of Getafe landed at the San Sebastián de los Reyes, Second B, where he coach Alfredo Santaelena gave him a chance, that the Ukrainian took advantage of it perfectly and it was his springboard to reach Sporting. Undoubtedly, Bogdan’s mother is ‘guilty’ that the winger reached professional football.

His debut in the Bronze category occurred against Navalcarnero. An injury to a partner was the culprit that Saúl played on the left and the coach bet on Bogdan for the right side. There the Ukrainian was seen to be a little nervous, but with the passing of the matches and the confidence of Alfredo Santaelena, the true Bogdan.

His game did not go unnoticed by him Sporting who signed him to play in his subsidiary -he went ahead of the Celtic, which also followed him. Bogdan, with his natural smile and his neat Castilian, always said he was a Ukrainian from Navacerrada.

Do the bag destination Gijon He had smiles, when signing for a great, and tears, for leaving the family. It was June 2018. In January 2020 -just 17 years after arriving in Spain-, debuted in the first sportinguista team under the orders of Djukic. From that day … and until today no one removed him from his band.

The debut shirt

At the stadium Matapiñonera, from Sanse, already wears Bogdan’s shirt on one of the walls. Sanse has the habit of asking for the jerseys from players who came to the professionalism and what did they play in it Sanse in its beginnings. Bogdan is one of these players and he already wears the number 32, the one he carried on his back the day he Djukic It gave him the opportunity to make his debut in Sporting’s first team.

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