Former Ukrainian Football Star Dmitry Parfenov Recalls 1995 Carjacking Attack in Odessa Amidst Crime Wave

Former defender of the national team of Ukraine Dmitry Parfenov, who started his professional career at Chernomorets, told how he was attacked in 1995 in his native Odessa by a band of musicians who took his car , and got vodka with clonidine to drink and throw him out of town. .

“This is the 90s… It was such a time. People came from another country, from Transnistria. They probably came to do their job, right? They don’t care at all, do they know people? In fact, everyone in town knew about my car. And no one would want to do anything for me in their life.”

“And then you get into the car – one and two fly in. Obviously you can’t jump out of the car quickly. And they put the knife in. I also tell them: “Guys, this is the wrong address.” In the village we knew everyone and they knew us. But they are not. They had to fire me. We first went into the garden and made him drink a bottle of clonidine and vodka. They got me drunk and then they threw me out on the side of town. They wanted me to take more out so I could leave the area.”

“The situation was such that it is not clear how everything would end. Alive – and well. Then this group was captured. There are 9 or 11 similar cases there when they came to a stray city. In addition, we knew the people involved in theft directly in Odessa. He, his parents and the head of the regional traffic police were at our house when I arrived. They sat and said: “This is not us. We know Dmitry’s car. ” That is, in Odessa it was impossible to think that anything would happen if they knew you. All the crime bosses knew each other and us. And football players in general have always been popular. There was such a time,” Parfenov told Russian media.

Parfenov also recalled why he decided to move from Chernomorets to Spartak Moscow, and not to Dynamo Kiev. The reasons turned out to be more than noisy…

It is known that Parfenov also has Russian citizenship and that he lives permanently in this country, where he tries to coach with varying degrees of success. For almost three years since the Russian occupation forces were introduced into the territory of​​​​​​​​Ukraine, Parfenov has not expressed anything in support of the country in which he was born and raised. he and his town in Odessa, which is regularly terrorized by bombing. by the Russians.