Oleg Blokhin

Oleg Blokhin

Blokhin as manager of Dynamo Kyiv in 2014
Personal information
Full name	Oleg Vladimirovich Blokhin / Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin
Date of birth	(1952-11-05) 5 November 1952 (age 72)
Place of birth	Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Kyiv, Ukraine)
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
1962–1969	Dynamo Kyiv
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1969–1988	Dynamo Kyiv	432	(211)
1988–1989	Vorwärts Steyr	41	(9)
1989–1990	Aris Limassol	22	(5)
Total		495	(225)
International career
1972–1988	Soviet Union	112	(42)
Managerial career
1990–1993	Olympiacos
1993–1994	PAOK
1994–1997	Ionikos
1998	PAOK
1998–1999	AEK Athens
2000–2002	Ionikos
2003–2007	Ukraine
2007–2008	Moscow
2011–2012	Ukraine
2012–2014	Dynamo Kyiv
Medal record Men's football Representing  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1972 Munich Team competition 1976 Montreal Team competition UEFA European U-23 Championships[1] Runner-up 1972 Europe
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Oleg Vladimirovich Blokhin, or Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin (Ukrainian: Оле́г Володи́мирович Блохі́н, Russian: Оле́г Влади́мирович Блохи́н; born 5 November 1952), is a Ukrainian and Soviet former football player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest footballers of his generation, Blokhin was a standout striker for Dynamo Kyiv and the Soviet Union.^[2]

He holds the all-time top goalscorer record for both Dynamo Kyiv (266 goals) and the Soviet Union national team (42 goals), as well as being the overall top goalscorer in the history of the Soviet Top League (211 goals). He is also the only player to have been capped over 100 times for the Soviet Union and holds Dynamo's appearance record with 582 appearances during his 18-year spell at the club. With Dynamo, Blokhin won eight Soviet league titles, five national cups and two European Cup Winners' Cups. He also competed for the Soviet Union at the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Games and 1982 and 1986 FIFA World Cups. During his playing career he won the Soviet Footballer of the Year award three times and the Ukrainian Footballer of the Year award nine times (both records). In 1975, he was named European Footballer of the Year, winning the Ballon d'Or, becoming the second Soviet and the first Ukrainian player to achieve such a feat.

As a coach, he has had two spells in charge of the Ukraine national team, managing the team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2012.

In 2011, Blokhin, together with Igor Belanov and Vitaliy Starukhin were named as "the legends of Ukrainian football" at the Victory of Football awards.^[3]