Oleg Blokhin

For footballer born in 1980, see Oleg Olegovich Blokhin.

Oleg Blokhin

Personal information
Full name	Oleg Vladimirovich Blokhin
Date of birth	5 November 1952 (1952-11-05) (age 59)
Place of birth	Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	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)
National team
1972–1988	Soviet Union	112	(42)
Teams managed
1990–1993	Olympiacos
1993–1994	PAOK
1994–1997	Ionikos
1997–1998	PAOK
1998–1999	AEK Athens
1999–2002	Ionikos
2003–2007	Ukraine
2007–2008	FC Moscow
2009–2010	Chornomorets Odesa (Sporting Director)
2011–	Ukraine
Honours Men's Football Bronze 1972 Munich Team competition Bronze 1976 Montreal Team competition
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Oleh Volodymyrovych "Oleg" Blokhin (Ukrainian: Олег Володимирович Блохін) (born 5 November 1952 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian football coach and current head coach of the Ukrainian national team. Blokhin was formerly a standout striker for Dynamo Kyiv and the Soviet national team. 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.

Career

Blokhin was born in Kiev, the capital of the Ukrainian SSR, in 1952 to a Russian father and Ukrainian mother.^[1]

Playing

Blokhin was one of the greatest strikers in the world throughout the 1970s, hitting the target regularly through a period of great success at his hometown club Dynamo Kiev and becoming the greatest goalscorer in the history of the Soviet League. Only the regime in the Soviet Union prevented him from moving abroad to play in Europe's strongest leagues.

Blokhin played during most of his career for Dynamo Kyiv, becoming 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, scoring a goal in each final. Blokhin is also 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 FIFA World Cups where he scored 1 goal in each. He was one of the first Soviet players to play abroad, signing for Austria's Vorwärts Steyr in 1988, he also played in Cyprus with Aris.

Coaching

After retiring as a player, Blokhin coached Greek clubs Olympiacos (Under him they won the Greek Cup twice, in 1990 and 1992, and the Greek Super Cup once, in 1992), AEK Athens, PAOK, and Ionikos.

He began serving as the head coach of the Ukrainian national team in September 2003. Under his leadership, Ukraine reached the quarter-finals of 2006 World Cup. There, Ukraine lost to Italy, who eventually progressed to become the 2006 World Champion. Following the side's failure to reach UEFA Euro 2008, Blokhin stepped down as coach on 6 December 2007.^[2]

On 14 December 2007, he was named head coach of FC Moscow.^[3] The club finished 9th (from 16) and after the season ended Blokhin was fired from the club.^[4] At the end of the season, Blokhin announced that if he knew how things would go in FC Moscow, he would have never signed there. This was because the club released many important players without Blokhin's permission yet still had many high expectations.^[5] Others said that the reason Blokhin failed in FC Moscow was that he and the press didn't have a friendly relationship, and because of that the press was constantly attacking Blokhin and that damaged his status among the players.^[6]

On 21 April 2011 Blokhin was again appointed head coach of the Ukrainian national team.^[7][8]

Career statistics

Club

Club	Season	League		Cup		Europe		Other		Total
		Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Dynamo Kyiv	1969	1	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	1	0
	1970	0	0	1	0	0	0	-	-	1	0
	1971	1	0	0	0	0	0	-	-	1	0
	1972	27	14	2	0	6	1	-	-	35	15
	1973	29	18	8	4	5	1	-	-	42	23
	1974	29	20	4	3	9	5	-	-	42	28
	1975	28	18	0	0	8	5	-	-	36	23
	1976	19	8	1	0	8	2	-	-	28	10
	1977	29	17	3	2	2	0	1	0	35	19
	1978	26	13	8	4	4	0	-	-	38	17
	1979	24	17	6	1	4	1	-	-	34	19
	1980	33	19	7	3	2	0	-	-	42	22
	1981	29	19	7	3	6	1	1	0	43	23
	1982	24	10	3	0	4	0	-	-	31	10
	1983	31	10	1	0	2	0	-	-	34	10
	1984	30	10	6	2	0	0	-	-	36	12
	1985	29	12	2	1	9	5	-	-	40	18
	1986	23	2	5	5	8	5	1	0	37	12
	1987	20	4	3	1	2	0	5	4	30	9
	Total	432	211	67	29	79	26	8	4	586	270
SK Vorwärts Steyr	1987–88	13	5	0	0	0	0	-	-	13	5
	1988–89	28	4	1	1	0	0	-	-	29	5
	Total	41	9	1	1	0	0	-	-	42	10
Aris Limassol	1989–90	22	5	6	2	0	0	-	-	28	7
	Total	22	5	6	2	0	0	-	-	28	7
Career	Total	495	225	74	32	79	26	8	4	656	287

• Other - USSR Super Cup & USSR Federation Cup

• The statistics in USSR Cups and Europe is made under the scheme "autumn-spring" and enlisted in a year of start of tournaments

International

^[9]

Soviet Union national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1972	9	8
1973	10	1
1974	3	0
1975	7	2
1976	12	4
1977	10	4
1978	10	6
1979	5	1
1980	2	1
1981	6	5
1982	9	2
1983	9	5
1984	3	1
1985	4	0
1986	11	2
1987	1	0
1988	1	0
Total	112	42

Politics

In 2002, 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, Blokhin has showed no political activity, concentrating on his coaching job.

Family

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

Individual honours

• European Footballer of the Year: Winner in 1975, 5th in 1981, 19th in 1974 and 1976
• Golden Foot award: 2009
• Soviet Footballer of the Year: 1973, 1974, 1975
• Ukrainian Footballer of the Year: 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981
• Soviet Top League top scorer: 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977
• Soviet Top League All-Time Goals and Appearances Leader
• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1985–86 top scorer^[10]
• European Cup 1986–87 second place on top scorers list.^[11]
• USSR national football team All-Time Goals and Caps Leader
• Ukraine's Golden Player representative ^[12]

Ballon d'Or

• 1974 – 19th
• 1975 – 1st
• 1976 – 19th
• 1981 – 5th

References

1. ^ Олег Блохин: «Москва» должна быть в тройке призёров//www.terrikon.dn.ua
2. ^ Soccer-Blokhin quits as Ukraine coach by Mikhail Volobuyev, Gennady Fyodorov and Ken Ferris, Reuters, 6 December 2007
3. ^ FK Moscow hire former Ukraine manager Blokhin ESPNsoccernet 14 December 2007
4. ^ Блохин освобожден от обязанностей главного тренера «Москвы». Sports.ru. 26 November 2008. Retrieved on 2011-01-02.
5. ^ Олег Блохин: «Если бы знал, как будут делаться дела в команде, то весной бы не пришел в «Москву». Sports.ru. 16 November 2008. Retrieved on 2011-01-02.
6. ^ Геннадий Литовченко: «Говорил Блохину, что его будут травить». Sports.ru. 4 December 2008. Retrieved on 2011-01-02.
7. ^ Ukraine appoint Blokhin, Sky Sports (21 April 2011)
8. ^ Oleg Blokhin appointed Ukraine coach, Reuters (21 April 2011)
9. ^ .. Player – Oleg Blokhin. National Football Teams (1952-11-05). Retrieved on 2011-01-02.
10. ^ Cup Winners Cup Topscorers. Rsssf.com (2003-12-18). Retrieved on 2011-01-02.
11. ^ European Champions' Cup 1986–87 – Details. Rsssf.com (2008-01-17). Retrieved on 2011-01-02.
12. ^ [1]^{[dead link]}

External links

• UEFA.com – Ukraine's Golden Player
• Oleg Blokhin career stats by KLISF

Persondata
Name	Blokhin, Oleg
Alternative names
Short description	footballer
Date of birth	5 November 1952
Place of birth	Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Date of death
Place of death