Oleg Blokhin

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Oleg Blokhin
Personal information
Full name Oleg Blokhin
Date of birth November 5, 1952 (age 54)
Place of birth    Kiev, Ukraine
Height 180 cm
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current club Ukraine
Youth clubs
1962-1969 Dynamo Kyiv
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1969-1988
1988-1989
1989-1990
 Dynamo Kyiv
Vorwärts Steyr
Aris Limassol		 433 (211)
41 (9)
22 (5)   
National team
1972-1988 USSR 112 (42)
Teams managed
1990-1993
1993-1994
1994-1997
1997-1998
1998-1999
1999-2002
2003-		 Olympiakos Piraeus
PAOK Saloniki
Ionikos
PAOK Saloniki
AEK Athens
Ionikos
Ukraine

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin (born November 5, 1952 in Kiev, Soviet Union, now Ukraine), is a Ukrainian football(soccer) coach who was formerly a striker for the USSR national football team. He was named European Footballer of the Year in 1975.

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[edit] Career

A former Dynamo Kiev player, Blokhin is the USSR national championship's all-time leader and goalscorer with 211 goals, as well as making more appearances than any other player with 432 appearances. He won the championship 8 times. He led Dynamo to the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup in 1975 and 1986. Blokhin is the USSR national football team's most capped player with 112 caps, as well as their all time leading goalscorer with 42 goals; he played in the 1982 and 1986 Football World Cups. He was one of the first Soviet players to play abroad, signing for Austria's Vorwärts Steyr in 1988, he also played in Greece with Aris.

After retiring as a player, Blokhin coached Greek clubs Olympiakos, PAOK, and Ionikos. He has been serving as the head coach of the Ukrainian national team since September 2003. Under his leadership, Ukraine reached the quarter-finals of 2006 World Cup. There, Ukraine lost to Italy, the 2006 World Champion.

[edit] Politics

In 2002 Oleh Blokhin was elected to Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) for a second term. In October 2002 he joined the United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine. Recently Oleg has showed no political activity, concentrating on his coaching job.

[edit] Family

Blokhin was married to Irina Deriugina, the prominent Soviet/Ukrainian gymnast and world champion in free-stand exercise, but the couple divorced in early 1990s. They have a daughter.

[edit] 2006 Racial controversy

On February 22, 2006 in an interview (Russian) on the Ukrainian sports website sport.com.ua, Blokhin made the following comment: "The more Ukrainians that play in the national league, the more examples for the young generation. Let them learn from Shevchenko or Blokhin and not from some Zumba-Bumba whom they took off a tree, gave him two bananas and now he plays in the Ukrainian League. [...] I remember when I played football, if we lost a game it was not easy to walk the Kiev streets - there were many friends out there who could beat you up for that. But is there any sense in beating up a foreigner? Okay, you beat him up - next thing he does is pack up and go." These comments received considerable coverage in Western editorials.[1][2][3]

[edit] Awards

Olympic medal record
Men’s Football
Bronze 1972 Munich Team competition
Bronze 1976 Montreal Team competition

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ The soccer Nazis' losing battle by Tony Karon, Los Angeles Times, June 9, 2006
  2. ^ Setting the scene by Jen Chang, ESPNsoccernet, June 8, 2006
  3. ^ Daily Record January,2006
  4. ^ UEFA.com's annoucement

[edit] External links

Preceded by
Johan Cruyff		 European Footballer of the Year
1975		 Succeeded by
Franz Beckenbauer


Flag of Soviet Union USSR squad - 1982 FIFA World Cup Flag of Soviet Union

1 Dasayev | 2 Sulakvelidze | 3 Chivadze | 4 Khidiyatullin | 5 Baltacha | 6 Demyanenko | 7 Shengelia | 8 Bessonov | 9 Gavrilov | 10 Oganesian | 11 Blokhin | 12 Bal | 13 Daraselia | 14 Borovsky | 15 Andreyev | 16 Rodionov | 17 Buryak | 18 Susloparov | 19 Yevtushenko | 20 Romantsev | 21 Viktor Chanov | 22 Vyacheslav Chanov | Coach: Beskov
Flag of Soviet Union USSR squad - 1986 FIFA World Cup Flag of Soviet Union

1 Dasayev | 2 Bessonov | 3 Chivadze | 4 Morozov | 5 Demyanenko | 6 Bubnov | 7 Yaremchuk | 8 Yakovenko | 9 Zavarov | 10 Kuznetsov | 11 Blokhin | 12 Bal | 13 Litovchenko | 14 Rodionov | 15 Larionov | 16 Chanov | 17 Yevtushenko | 18 Protasov | 19 Belanov | 20 Aleinikov | 21 Rats | 22 Krakovsky | Coach: Lobanovsky
Flag of Ukraine Ukraine squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup Quarter-finalists Flag of Ukraine

1 Shovkovskiy | 2 Nesmachniy | 3 Yatsenko | 4 Tymoschuk | 5 Yezerskiy | 6 Rusol | 7 Shevchenko | 8 Shelayev | 9 Husyev | 10 Voronin | 11 Rebrov | 12 Pyatov | 13 Chygrynskiy | 14 Husin | 15 Milevskiy | 16 Vorobei | 17 Vashchuk | 18 Nazarenko | 19 Kalynychenko | 20 Byelik | 21 Rotan | 22 Sviderskiy | 23 Shust | Coach: Blokhin
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