Oleh Blokhin

Oleh Blokhin

Blokhin as manager of Ukraine in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin
Date of birth	(1952-11-05) 5 November 1952 (age 64)
Place of birth	Kyiv, 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
1998	PAOK
1998–1999	AEK Athens
1999–2002	Ionikos
2003–2007	Ukraine
2007–2008	Moscow
2011–2012	Ukraine
2012–2014	Dynamo Kyiv
Honours Men's Football at the Summer Olympics 1972 Munich Team competition 1976 Montreal Team competition
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin (Ukrainian: Оле́г Володи́мирович Блохі́н, Russian: Оле́г Влади́мирович Блохи́н; born 5 November 1952 in Kyiv) is a former Ukrainian football player and manager who is currently a free agent. 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.