Dmytro Chygrynski junto a Zlatan Ibrahimovic y Gerard Piqué

THE UKRAINIAN WAS ONE YEAR AT BARÇA

The 'mythical' Chygrynski pronounces on his time at Barça

Published:6/05/2023 - 19:08h

Updated:6/05/2023 - 19:09h

Dmytro Chygrynski only spent one year at FC Barcelona, ​​but the fans and his former teammates remember him with particular affection. The Ukrainian defender, still active at 36, recalled his experience during 2009/10, his only one as a culé

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In August of 2009, the FC Barcelona of Pep Guardiola, winner of the triplete the previous season, decided to pay 25 million euros to the Shakthar Donetsk by Dimitro Chygrynski, head office that had dazzled to the Catalan trainer by his performance with the Ukrainian group champion of the Glass UEFA this year. Still in active, the defender of 36 years, today player of the humble Ionikos Nikeas, remembered in an interview with 'Relief' his details of his go through Catalonia.

"The people says me: 'Oh, you played in the Barça'. But I never say that I played in the Barça. I say: 'I Was in the Barça'. And this is different, because to say that you played here need to have been important part of the team", said the one of Iziaslav. In the 2009/10 played a total of 14 parties (1.031 minutes) in which it did not add goals neither assistances and saw 3 yellow cards. At the end it could add a League and a World-wide of Clubs to his list of winners before returning to the Shakhtar in the summer of 2011 in return of 15 'kilos'.

Like this gestó the signing of Chygrynski by the Barça

In the summer of 2009, the ones of Donetsk contested the Supercopa European in front of the Barça (triumph culé in extention 1-0), a party in which Chygrynski already knew his destination, after several weeks of negotiations between the clubs. "We collected the medal and did us a corridor. And while it happened, some embraced me and said me: 'Bienvenido to the Barça, Dmytro', remembered the central.

Days before, the player had conversed with Pep Guardiola. "It said me: 'I Want to that you are the couple of Hammered by a lot of years. It trusts me, it likes me your exit of balloon, your first pass…'. I was in shock", commented the one of Iziaslav, the one who affirmed to have been unable of lidiar with the pressure to dress the T-shirt culé. "Had too much haste. Me autopresioné too much. Pep said me: 'Alone do what ask you, do not think of more'. But I knew that it was not the best in the trainings, so they finished the sessions and remained me working", expressed the Ukrainian defender.

Seville and Cádiz, the parties that him 'condemned'

For Dmytro, his failures in the parties in front of Seville (eighth of Glass) and Cádiz (League) finish sentencing his goodbye to the Barça only a year after his arrival. "You do not go to have two, three or four opportunities. If you are not sufficiently good, a year is a lot. It is not as in England. To general level do not think that fracasara, but if we speak of some concrete parties, yes, failed. And that is the price that pay in the Barça. I say it without objections: in the party of Glass in front of the Seville failed. And against the Cádiz in League also failed, although we win", said the central.

However, Chygrynski values positively his experience like culé. "In general lines has been a beautiful way. Perhaps I lost some years in the Shakhtar, perhaps lost a year in the Barça, but do not know if in other circumstances would have arrived to where am now", puntualizó the Ukrainian, the one who this season has played 24 parties (1 goal) with the Ionikas Nikeas.

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