Oleg Blokhin
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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 | |||||||||||||||||||
1998 | PAOK | |||||||||||||||||||
1998–1999 | AEK Athens | |||||||||||||||||||
1999–2002 | Ionikos | |||||||||||||||||||
2003–2007 | Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||
2007–2008 | Moscow | |||||||||||||||||||
2011–2012 | Ukraine | |||||||||||||||||||
2012–2014 | Dynamo Kyiv | |||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin (Ukrainian: Оле́г Володи́мирович Блохі́н, Russian: Оле́г Влади́мирович Блохи́н; born 5 November 1952) is a former Ukrainian football player and manager. Blokhin was formerly a standout striker for Dynamo Kyiv and the Soviet Union.
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 Ukrainian 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.[1]
Career
Blokhin was born in Kiev, the capital of the Ukrainian SSR, in 1952 to a Russian father from Moscow and Ukrainian mother.[2]
Playing
Blokhin was one of the greatest forwards in the world throughout the 1970s, hitting the target regularly through a period of great success at his hometown club Dynamo Kyiv and becoming the greatest goalscorer in the history of the Soviet League, which was one of Europe's strongest. Normally a forward or winger, Blokhin was most renowned for possessing exceptional pace.
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.
In 1979 Blokhin played a couple of games for the Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.[3]
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 qualified for a major tournament for the first time as an independent nation, reaching the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. Ukraine reached the quarter-finals of the tournament, losing to eventual champions Italy. 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] He led the team in UEFA Euro 2012 on home soil, beating Sweden but exiting at the group stage after defeats to France and England.
On 25 September 2012, Dynamo Kyiv signed Blokhin to lead the club for the next four years.[11] His final matches in charge of Ukraine were World Cup qualifiers against Moldova and Montenegro in October 2012.[12] Blokhin was dismissed as Dynamo's manager by the club's President Ihor Surkis on 17 April 2014 because of the "unsatisfactory results of the team".[11] The day before, in a press conference after Dynamo had lost a match against Shakhtar Donetsk, Blokhin had already stated that he had decided to resign.[11] Under his leadership Dynamo never qualified (a rare occasion for the club) for the UEFA Champions League and performed poorly in the UEFA Europa League.[11] In his first year his team finished third in the Ukrainian Premier League and in his second year (when he was fired) Dynamo was seven points behind Ukrainian Premier League leaders Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Shakhtar Donetsk.[11]
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 | ||
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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. | 1972-07-16 | Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–1 | Friendly |
2. | 1972-08-06 | Råsunda Stadion, Stockholm | ![]() |
4–3 | 4–4 | |
3. | 1972-09-01 | Jahnstadion, Regensburg | ![]() |
1–0 | 4–1 | 1972 Olympics |
4. | 2–0 | |||||
5. | 3–0 | |||||
6. | 1972-09-05 | Rosenaustadion, Augsburg | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–2 | |
7. | 1972-09-08 | ![]() |
3–0 | 4–0 | ||
8. | 1972-09-10 | Olympic Stadium, Munich | ![]() |
1–0 | 2–2 | |
9. | 1973-05-26 | Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow | ![]() |
1–0 | 2–0 | 1972 World Cup qualifier |
10. | 1975-04-02 | Kiev Central Stadium, Kiev | ![]() |
3–0 | 3–0 | Euro 1976 qualifier |
11. | 1975-05-18 | ![]() |
1–0 | 2–1 | ||
12. | 1976-03-10 | Všešportový areál, Košice | ![]() |
1–0 | 2–2 | Friendly |
13. | 1976-03-24 | Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia | ![]() |
3–0 | 3–0 | |
14. | 1976-05-22 | Kyiv Central Stadium, Kyiv | ![]() |
2–2 | 2–2 | Euro 1976 qualifier |
15. | 1976-07-23 | Lansdowne Park, Ottawa | ![]() |
3–0 | 3–0 | 1976 Olympics |
16. | 1977-03-23 | JNA Stadium, Belgrade | ![]() |
1–0 | 4–2 | Friendly |
17. | 3–1 | |||||
18. | 1977-09-07 | Central Stadium, Volgograd | ![]() |
3–1 | 4–1 | |
19. | 4–1 | |||||
20. | 1978-02-26 | Stade El Harti, Marrakech | ![]() |
1–1 | 3–2 | |
21. | 1978-04-05 | Hrazdan Stadium, Yerevan | ![]() |
4–0 | 10–2 | |
22. | 6–0 | |||||
23. | 9–1 | |||||
24. | 1978-05-14 | Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–0 | |
25. | 1978-10-05 | Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadium, Ankara | ![]() |
2–0 | 2–0 | |
26. | 1979-03-28 | Lokomotiv Stadium, Simferopol | ![]() |
1–0 | 3–1 | |
27. | 1980-08-27 | Népstadion, Budapest | ![]() |
1–1 | 4–1 | |
28. | 1981-09-23 | Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow | ![]() |
3–0 | 4–0 | 1982 World Cup qualifier |
29. | 1981-10-07 | İzmir Atatürk Stadium, Izmir | 2–0 | 3–0 | ||
30. | 3–0 | |||||
31. | 1981-11-18 | Dinamo Stadium, Tbilisi | ![]() |
2–0 | 3–0 | |
32. | 1981-11-29 | Tehelné pole, Bratislava | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–1 | |
33. | 1982-06-03 | Råsunda Stadion, Stockholm | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–1 | Friendly |
34. | 1982-06-19 | Estadio La Rosaleda, Málaga | ![]() |
2–0 | 3–0 | 1982 World Cup |
35. | 1983-04-13 | Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly |
36. | 1983-05-17 | Praterstadion, Vienna | ![]() |
2–1 | 2–2 | |
37. | 1983-06-01 | Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–0 | Euro 1984 qualifier |
38. | 1983-07-26 | Zentralstadion, Leipzig | ![]() |
1–0 | 3–1 | Friendly |
39. | 1983-10-09 | Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow | ![]() |
2–0 | 2–0 | Euro 1984 qualifier |
40. | 1984-08-19 | Kirov Stadium, Leningrad | ![]() |
3–0 | 3–0 | Friendly |
41. | 1986-06-09 | Estadio Sergio León Chavez, Irapuato | ![]() |
1–0 | 2–0 | 1986 World Cup |
42. | 1986-10-29 | Lokomotiv Stadium, Simferopol | ![]() |
3–0 | 3–0 | Euro 1988 qualifier |
Managerial statistics
- As of 1 November 2015
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 | 45.65 | Won qual.group for 2006, Reached 2006 World Cup quarter-finals |
Moscow | ![]() |
12/2007 | 11/2008 | 30 | 9 | 11 | 10 | 30.00 | |
Ukraine | ![]() |
04/2011 | 2012 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 41.67 | Eliminated at group stage of Euro 2012 |
Dynamo Kyiv | ![]() |
09/2012 | 03/2014 | 58 | 32 | 10 | 16 | 55.17 |
Politics
In 1998 Blokhin was elected to Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) for Hromada.[14] He joined Hromada while still being a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine.[14] In 2002, Blokhin was elected to Verkhovna Rada for a second term. In October 2002, he joined the United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine.
In order to avoid controversy, Blokhin remained quiet during the Euromaidan events. However, he did anger some supporters when during the Euromaidan he made the following comment: "How do I react to the Euromaidan? Like a resident of Kiev. Why is it all happening in Kiev, and not in Donetsk or Dnepropetrovsk? Whatever is happening, life continues, and now problems are caused for simple residents - You can't get into town. It's wrong".[15]
Family
Blokhin's father, Vladimir Ivanovich Blokhin, is a native of Moscow, a veteran of the World War II, survivor of the Leningrad blockade, and a former Soviet law enforcement agent. Vladimir Blokhin later worked as a sports functionary for the Soviet Dynamo Society. Blokhin's mother Katerina Zakharivna (née Adamenko) is from a village in the Borodyanka Raion. She originally worked at a Kyiv sewing factory, but eventually discovered hidden athletic talents and became the Soviet champion in track and field as well as pentathlon. After retiring from sports, she became a staff member at one of Kyiv's universities.
Blokhin was married to Irina Deriugina, a top coach and former world champion in rhythmic gymnastics, but the couple divorced in the early 1990s. Blokhin and Deriugina have a daughter, singer Iryna Blokhina, who wrote and performed the Euro 2012 anthem.[16]
Blokhin and his second wife, Angela, have two daughters, Hanna (born 2001) and Katerina (born 2002).[17]
Honours
Club
- Soviet Top League (8): 1971, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986
- Soviet Cup (5): 1974, 1978, 1982, 1985, 1987
- USSR Super Cup: (3): 1981, 1986, 1987
- UEFA Cup Winners Cup (2): 1975, 1986
- UEFA Super Cup: 1975
Individual
- Merited Master of Sports (1975)
- Merited Coach of Ukraine (2005)
- Ballon d'Or: 1975
- IOC European Footballer of the Season: 1974–75[18]
- Golden Foot: 2009, as a legend[19]
- Soviet Footballer of the Year (3): 1973, 1974, 1975
- Ukrainian Footballer of the Year (9): 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981
- Soviet Top League top scorer (5): 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977
- Soviet Top League All-Time Goals and Appearances Leader
- UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1985–86 top scorer[20]
- European Cup 1986–87 second place on top scorers list.[21]
- USSR national football team All-Time Goals and Caps Leader
- Ukraine's Golden Player representative[22]
- Inducted into Viktor Leonenko Hall of Fame in March 2012
- Club Loyalty Award: 1986
- IFFHS Legends[23]
Ballon d'Or
See also
References
- ^ http://www.bulvar.com.ua/arch/2011/51/4ef313ba6efb7/
- ^ Олег Блохин: «Москва» должна быть в тройке призёров//www.terrikon.dn.ua
- ^ Football at the 1979 Spartakiad of the Peoples of USSR
- ^ 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[permanent dead link], Reuters (21 April 2011)
- ^ a b c d e Dynamo president sacks Blokhin for poor performance, Interfax-Ukraine (17 April 2014)
- ^ Dynamo Kyiv signs Blokhin as coach for 4 years, Sports Illustrated (25 September 2012)
- ^ "Oleg Blokhin". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
- ^ a b Oleh Blokhin: "I have scored all of my goals", Den (1998)
- ^ http://sport.lb.ua/football/2013/12/12/246488_blohin_izza_evromaydana.html
- ^ Донька Блохіна заспіває гімн "Євро-2012" (The daughter of Blokhin will sing the Euro 2012 anthem) with photo. TabloID. 11 November 2011
- ^ Yuri Yuris (27 September 2002). Олег Блохин: Место В Истории [Oleg Blokhin: Place in History]. Sport-Express (in Russian). Retrieved 25 February 2015.
- ^ Volodymyr Banyas (25 August 2015). "Best European footballers by season" (PDF). Ukrainian Football. Retrieved 2 June 2017. (ukr.)
- ^ "Legends". Golden Foot. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
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- ^ European Champions' Cup 1986–87 – Details. Rsssf.com (17 January 2008). Retrieved 2 January 2011.
- ^ [1] Archived 17 March 2005 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "IFFHS announce the 48 football legend players". IFFHS. 25 January 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
External links
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- "Blokhin's sprint to success" (UEFA.com) at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 January 2009)
- Oleg Vladimirovich Blohin at KLISF.ru at archive.today (archived 2013-07-28)
- Oleg Blokhin – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Use dmy dates from October 2012
- 1952 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Kiev
- 1982 FIFA World Cup players
- 1986 FIFA World Cup players
- 2006 FIFA World Cup managers
- UEFA Euro 2012 managers
- AEK Athens F.C. managers
- Aris Limassol FC players
- Cypriot First Division players
- FC Dynamo Kyiv players
- Dynamo sports society athletes
- Ballon d'Or winners
- FIFA Century Club
- Association football forwards
- Footballers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Footballers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Olympiacos F.C. managers
- PAOK FC managers
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic footballers of the Soviet Union
- Soviet expatriate footballers
- Soviet footballers
- Soviet Union international footballers
- Soviet Top League players
- UEFA Golden Players
- Ukrainian expatriate footballers
- SK Vorwärts Steyr players
- Expatriate footballers in Austria
- Ukrainian expatriates in Austria
- Soviet expatriates in Austria
- Expatriate footballers in Cyprus
- Ukrainian expatriates in Cyprus
- Soviet expatriates in Cyprus
- Ukrainian football managers
- Ukrainian footballers
- Ukraine national football team managers
- Ukrainian sportsperson-politicians
- Ukrainian people of Russian descent
- FC Moscow managers
- Russian Premier League managers
- Superleague Greece managers
- Expatriate football managers in Greece
- Expatriate football managers in Russia
- Ukrainian expatriates in Greece
- Ukrainian expatriates in Russia
- Ionikos F.C. managers
- Hromada (political party) politicians
- Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) politicians
- Communist Party of Ukraine politicians
- Third convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
- Fourth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
- Olympic medalists in football
- FC Dynamo Kyiv managers
- Merited Coaches of Ukraine
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- Ukrainian Premier League managers
- Ukrainian expatriate football managers
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics