Oleg Protasov

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Oleg Protasov
Personal information
Full name	Oleg Protasov
Date of birth	February 4, 1964 (age 43)
Place of birth	Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
Playing position	Retired, now a Coach (Former Striker)
Club information
Current club	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Youth clubs
1972-81	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1981-1987 1987-1990 1990-1994 1994-1995 1996-1998 1998-1999	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk Dinamo Kiev Olympiakos Piraeus Gamba Osaka Veria FC Proodeftiki	145 (95) 71 (30) 83 (48) 65 (26) 62 (11) 28 (5)
National team
1987-1992 1994	USSR Ukraine	68 (29) 1 (0)
Teams managed
2002-2004 2004-2005 2005 2006-Present	Olympiakos Piraeus AEL Limassol Steaua Bucharest Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Oleg Protasov (Russian: Олег Протасов) (born February 4, 1964, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) is a former football striker. He was a key member of the USSR national team throughout the 1980s. Protasov's 29 goals for the Soviet Union are second in the team's history, behind Oleg Blokhin's 42. Protasov is currently coaching Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk.

He won the Soviet Championship twice and was named Soviet Footballer of the Year in 1987. He scored 125 goals in the Soviet Championship, 8th all-time.

Protasov played for the USSR 68 times, including at the 1986 and 1990 FIFA World Cups, as well as Euro 88, where he scored two goals. He also played one game for the Ukraine national team, in 1994.

After retiring as a player, Protasov went into coaching, and led Olympiakos Piraeus to the Greek title in 2003. In 2005, he coached Romanian team Steaua Bucharest.

In December 2005, Oleg Protasov returned in Ukraine to coach his hometown team, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, after an impressive UEFA Cup performance with Steaua Bucharest (winning the group with no goals allowed).

In his first season as Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk's coach, Oleg Protasov led the team to a 6th place finish in the Ukrainian Premier League.

[edit] External links

• Oleg Protasov at UkrSoccerHistory.com

Preceded by Dumitru Dumitriu

Steaua Bucharest coach in: 2005

Succeeded by Cosmin Olăroiu

	USSR squad - 1986 FIFA World Cup
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

	USSR squad - 1990 FIFA World Cup
1 Dasayev | 2 Bessonov | 3 Khidiatullin | 4 Kuznetsov | 5 Demyanenko | 6 Rats | 7 Aleinikov | 8 Litovchenko | 9 Zavarov | 10 Protasov | 11 Dobrovolski | 12 Borodyuk | 13 Tsveiba | 14 Liuty | 15 Yaremchuk | 16 Chanov | 17 Zygmantovich | 18 Shalimov | 19 Fokin | 20 Gorlukovich | 21 Broshin | 22 Uvarov | Coach: Lobanovsky