Oleg Blokhin
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin | ||
Date of birth | 5 November 1952 | ||
Place of birth | Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | ||
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 | ||
1997–1998 | PAOK | ||
1998–1999 | AEK Athens | ||
1999–2002 | Ionikos | ||
2003–2007 | Ukraine | ||
2007–2008 | Moscow | ||
2009–2010 | Chornomorets Odesa (Sporting Director) | ||
2011–2012 | Ukraine | ||
2012– | Dynamo Kyiv | ||
Medal record | |||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin (Ukrainian: Олег Володимирович Блохін; born 5 November 1952 in Kiev) is a Soviet football player and Ukrainian football coach. He is currently a head coach of the Ukrainian national team (till October 2012) and FC Dynamo Kyiv.[1] 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. In 2011 Oleg Blokhin, together with Igor Belanov and Vitaliy Starukhin was named as "the legends of Ukrainian football" at the Victory of Football awards.[2]
Career
Blokhin was born in Kiev, the capital of the Ukrainian SSR, in 1952 to a Russian father and Ukrainian mother.[3]
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 and the Greek Super Cup in 1992), PAOK, AEK Athens, 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.[4]
On 14 December 2007, he was named head coach of FC Moscow.[5] The club finished 9th (from 16) and after the season ended Blokhin was fired from the club.[6] 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.[7] 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.[8]
On 21 April 2011 Blokhin was again appointed head coach of the Ukrainian national team.[9][10]
Dynamo Kyiv signed Blokhin to lead the club for the next four years on 25 September 2012; he will continue to lead Ukraine in the World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Montenegro in October 2012.[1]
Career statistics
Club
Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Super Cup | Total | |||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Dynamo Kyiv | 1969 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 |
1970 | - | - | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | |
1971 | 1 | 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 | - | - | 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 | - | - | - | - | 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 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 5 | |
Total | 432 | 211 | 67 | 29 | 79 | 26 | 4 | 0 | 582 | 266 | |
SK Vorwärts Steyr | 1987–88 | 13 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | 5 |
1988–89 | 28 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 29 | 5 | |
Total | 41 | 9 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 42 | 10 | |
Aris Limassol | 1989–90 | 22 | 5 | 6 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 28 | 7 |
Total | 22 | 5 | 6 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 28 | 7 | |
Career | Total | 495 | 225 | 74 | 32 | 79 | 26 | 4 | 0 | 652 | 283 |
- The statistics in USSR Cups and Europe is made under the scheme "autumn-spring" and enlisted in a year of start of tournaments
International
Soviet Union national team | ||
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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 |
International goals
- Score and results list Soviet Union's goal tally first.
# | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 16 July 1972 | Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–1 | Friendly |
2. | 6 August 1972 | Råsunda Stadion, Stockholm | ![]() |
4–3 | 4–4 | |
3. | 1 September 1972 | Jahnstadion, Regensburg | ![]() |
1–0 | 4–1 | 1972 Olympics |
4. | 2–0 | |||||
5. | 3–0 | |||||
6. | 5 September 1972 | Rosenaustadion, Augsburg | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–2 | |
7. | 8 September 1972 | ![]() |
3–0 | 4–0 | ||
8. | 10 September 1972 | Olympic Stadium, Munich | ![]() |
1–0 | 2–2 | |
9. | 26 May 1973 | Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow | ![]() |
1–0 | 2–0 | 1972 World Cup qualifier |
10. | 2 April 1975 | Kiev Central Stadium, Kiev | ![]() |
3–0 | 3–0 | Euro 1976 qualifier |
11. | 18 May 1975 | ![]() |
1–0 | 2–1 | ||
12. | 10 March 1976 | Všešportový areál, Košice | ![]() |
1–0 | 2–2 | Friendly |
13. | 24 March 1976 | Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia | ![]() |
3–0 | 3–0 | |
14. | 22 May 1976 | Kiev Central Stadium, Kiev | ![]() |
2–2 | 2–2 | Euro 1976 qualifier |
15. | 23 July 1976 | Lansdowne Park, Ottawa | ![]() |
3–0 | 3–0 | 1976 Olympics |
16. | 23 March 1977 | JNA Stadium, Belgrade | ![]() |
1–0 | 4–2 | Friendly |
17. | 3–1 | |||||
18. | 7 September 1977 | Central Stadium, Volgograd | ![]() |
3–1 | 4–1 | |
19. | 4–1 | |||||
20. | 26 February 1978 | Stade El Harti, Marrakech | ![]() |
1–1 | 3–2 | |
21. | 5 April 1978 | Hrazdan Stadium, Yerevan | ![]() |
4–0 | 10–2 | |
22. | 6–0 | |||||
23. | 9–1 | |||||
24. | 14 May 1978 | Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–0 | |
25. | 5 October 1978 | Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadium, Ankara | ![]() |
2–0 | 2–0 | |
26. | 28 March 1979 | Lokomotiv Stadium, Simferopol | ![]() |
1–0 | 3–1 | |
27. | 27 August 1980 | Népstadion, Budapest | ![]() |
1–1 | 4–1 | |
28. | 23 September 1981 | Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow | ![]() |
3–0 | 4–0 | 1982 World Cup qualifier |
29. | 7 October 1981 | İzmir Atatürk Stadium, Izmir | 2–0 | 3–0 | ||
30. | 3–0 | |||||
31. | 18 November 1981 | Dinamo Stadium, Tbilisi | ![]() |
2–0 | 3–0 | |
32. | 29 November 1981 | Tehelné pole, Bratislava | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–1 | |
33. | 3 June 1982 | Råsunda Stadion, Stockholm | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–1 | Friendly |
34. | 19 June 1982 | Estadio La Rosaleda, Málaga | ![]() |
2–0 | 3–0 | 1982 World Cup |
35. | 13 April 1983 | Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly |
36. | 17 May 1983 | Praterstadion, Vienna | ![]() |
2–1 | 2–2 | |
37. | 1 June 1983 | Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–0 | Euro 1984 qualifier |
38. | 26 July 1983 | Zentralstadion, Leipzig | ![]() |
1–0 | 3–1 | Friendly |
39. | 9 October 1983 | Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow | ![]() |
2–0 | 2–0 | Euro 1984 qualifier |
40. | 19 August 1984 | Kirov Stadium, Leningrad | ![]() |
3–0 | 3–0 | Friendly |
41. | 9 June 1986 | Estadio Sergio León Chavez, Irapuato | ![]() |
1–0 | 2–0 | 1986 World Cup |
42. | 29 October 1986 | Lokomotiv Stadium, Simferopol | ![]() |
3–0 | 3–0 | Euro 1988 qualifier |
Managerial statistics
- As of 11 September 2012
Team | Nat | From | To | Record | Achievement | ||||
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G | W | D | L | Win % | |||||
Olympiacos | ![]() |
06/1990 | 01/1993 | x | x | x | x | League runner-up 1991, 1992, Cup holder 1992 | |
P.A.O.K. | ![]() |
1993 | 1994 | x | x | x | x | ||
Ionikos | ![]() |
12/1994 | 02/1997 | x | x | x | x | ||
P.A.O.K. | ![]() |
1998 | 1998 | x | x | x | x | ||
AEK Athens | ![]() |
11/1998 | 05/1999 | x | x | x | x | ||
Ionikos | ![]() |
03/2000 | 01/2002 | x | x | x | x | ||
Ukraine | ![]() |
01/2003 | 12/2007 | 46 | 21 | 14 | 11 | Won qual.group for 2006, Reached 2006 World Cup quarter-finals | |
Moscow | ![]() |
12/2007 | 11/2008 | 30 | 9 | 11 | 10 | ||
Ukraine | ![]() |
04/2011 | Present | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | Eliminated at group stage of Euro 2012 |
Politics
In 1998 Blokhin was elected to Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) for Hromada.[12] He joined Hromada while still being a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine.[12] In 2002, Blokhin was elected to Verkhovna Rada for a second term. In October 2002, he joined the United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine. Recently, Blokhin has shown 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 Olehivna Blokhina who wrote and performed the Euro 2012 anthem.[13]
Club honours
- Soviet Top League (8): 1971, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986
- Soviet Cup (5): 1974, 1978, 1982, 1985, 1987
- USSR Super Cup: (3): 1980, 1985, 1986
- UEFA Cup Winners Cup (2): 1975 1986
- UEFA Super Cup (1): 1975
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[14]
- European Cup 1986–87 second place on top scorers list.[15]
- USSR national football team All-Time Goals and Caps Leader
- Ukraine's Golden Player representative[16]
- Inducted into Viktor Leonenko Hall of Fame in March 2012
Ballon d'Or
See also
References
- ^ a b Dynamo Kiev signs Blokhin as coach for 4 years, Sports Illustrated (25 September 2012)
- ^ http://www.bulvar.com.ua/arch/2011/51/4ef313ba6efb7/
- ^ Олег Блохин: «Москва» должна быть в тройке призёров//www.terrikon.dn.ua
- ^ Soccer-Blokhin quits as Ukraine coach by Mikhail Volobuyev, Gennady Fyodorov and Ken Ferris, Reuters, 6 December 2007
- ^ FK Moscow hire former Ukraine manager Blokhin ESPNsoccernet 14 December 2007
- ^ Блохин освобожден от обязанностей главного тренера «Москвы». Sports.ru. 26 November 2008. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
- ^ Олег Блохин: «Если бы знал, как будут делаться дела в команде, то весной бы не пришел в «Москву». Sports.ru. 16 November 2008. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
- ^ Геннадий Литовченко: «Говорил Блохину, что его будут травить». Sports.ru. 4 December 2008. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
- ^ Ukraine appoint Blokhin, Sky Sports (21 April 2011)
- ^ Oleg Blokhin appointed Ukraine coach, Reuters (21 April 2011)
- ^ .. Player – Oleg Blokhin. National Football Teams (5 November 1952). Retrieved 2 January 2011.
- ^ a b Oleh Blokhin: "I have scored all of my goals", Den (1998)
- ^ Донька Блохіна заспіває гімн "Євро-2012" (The daughter of Blokhin will sing the Euro 2012 anthem) with photo. TabloID. 11 November 2011
- ^ Cup Winners Cup Topscorers. Rsssf.com (18 December 2003). Retrieved 2 January 2011.
- ^ European Champions' Cup 1986–87 – Details. Rsssf.com (17 January 2008). Retrieved 2 January 2011.
- ^ [1] [dead link]
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