Oleh Blokhin

"Oleg Blokhin" redirects here. For other people, see Blokhin.
This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Volodymyrovych and the family name is 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
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

* 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.

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. Only the regime in the Soviet Union prevented him from moving abroad to play in Europe's strongest leagues. 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 couple of games for 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
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Dynamo Kyiv 1969 10------10
1970 --10----10
1971 10------10
1972 27142061--3515
1973 29188451--4223
1974 29204395--4228
1975 2818--85--3623
1976 1981082--2810
1977 29173220103519
1978 26138440--3817
1979 24176141--3419
1980 33197320--4222
1981 29197361104323
1982 24103040--3110
1983 31101020--3410
1984 301062----3612
1985 29122195--4018
1986 2325585103712
1987 204312010265
Total 4322116729792640582266
SK Vorwärts Steyr 1987–88 135------135
1988–89 28411----295
Total 41911----4210
Aris Limassol 1989–90 22562----287
Total 22562----287
CareerTotal 4952257432792640652283

International

[13]

Soviet Union
Year Apps Goals
1972 98
1973 101
1974 30
1975 72
1976 124
1977 104
1978 106
1979 51
1980 21
1981 65
1982 92
1983 95
1984 31
1985 40
1986 112
1987 10
1988 10
Total11242

International goals

Score and results list Soviet Union's goal tally first.
# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 1972-07-16 Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki  Finland 1–0 1–1 Friendly
2. 1972-08-06 Råsunda Stadion, Stockholm  Sweden 4–3 4–4
3. 1972-09-01 Jahnstadion, Regensburg  Mexico 1–0 4–1 1972 Olympics
4. 2–0
5. 3–0
6. 1972-09-05 Rosenaustadion, Augsburg  Poland 1–0 1–2
7. 1972-09-08  Denmark 3–0 4–0
8. 1972-09-10 Olympic Stadium, Munich  East Germany 1–0 2–2
9. 1973-05-26 Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow  France 1–0 2–0 1972 World Cup qualifier
10. 1975-04-02 Kiev Central Stadium, Kyiv  Turkey 3–0 3–0 Euro 1976 qualifier
11. 1975-05-18  Republic of Ireland 1–0 2–1
12. 1976-03-10 Všešportový areál, Košice  Czechoslovakia 1–0 2–2 Friendly
13. 1976-03-24 Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia  Bulgaria 3–0 3–0
14. 1976-05-22 Kyiv Central Stadium, Kyiv  Czechoslovakia 2–2 2–2 Euro 1976 qualifier
15. 1976-07-23 Lansdowne Park, Ottawa  North Korea 3–0 3–0 1976 Olympics
16. 1977-03-23 JNA Stadium, Belgrade  Yugoslavia 1–0 4–2 Friendly
17. 3–1
18. 1977-09-07 Central Stadium, Volgograd  Poland 3–1 4–1
19. 4–1
20. 1978-02-26 Stade El Harti, Marrakech  Morocco 1–1 3–2
21. 1978-04-05 Hrazdan Stadium, Yerevan  Finland 4–0 10–2
22. 6–0
23. 9–1
24. 1978-05-14 Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest  Romania 1–0 1–0
25. 1978-10-05 Ankara 19 Mayıs Stadium, Ankara  Turkey 2–0 2–0
26. 1979-03-28 Lokomotiv Stadium, Simferopol  Bulgaria 1–0 3–1
27. 1980-08-27 Népstadion, Budapest  Hungary 1–1 4–1
28. 1981-09-23 Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow  Turkey 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  Wales 2–0 3–0
32. 1981-11-29 Tehelné pole, Bratislava  Czechoslovakia 1–0 1–1
33. 1982-06-03 Råsunda Stadion, Stockholm  Sweden 1–0 1–1 Friendly
34. 1982-06-19 Estadio La Rosaleda, Málaga  New Zealand 2–0 3–0 1982 World Cup
35. 1983-04-13 Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne   Switzerland 1–0 1–0 Friendly
36. 1983-05-17 Praterstadion, Vienna  Austria 2–1 2–2
37. 1983-06-01 Helsinki Olympic Stadium, Helsinki  Finland 1–0 1–0 Euro 1984 qualifier
38. 1983-07-26 Zentralstadion, Leipzig  East Germany 1–0 3–1 Friendly
39. 1983-10-09 Central Lenin Stadium, Moscow  Poland 2–0 2–0 Euro 1984 qualifier
40. 1984-08-19 Kirov Stadium, Leningrad  Mexico 3–0 3–0 Friendly
41. 1986-06-09 Estadio Sergio León Chavez, Irapuato  Canada 1–0 2–0 1986 World Cup
42. 1986-10-29 Lokomotiv Stadium, Simferopol  Norway 3–0 3–0 Euro 1988 qualifier

Managerial statistics


As of 1 November 2015
Team Nat From To Record Achievement
G W D L Win %
Olympiacos Greece 06/1990 01/1993 x x x x League runner-up 1991, 1992, Cup holder 1992
P.A.O.K. Greece 1993 1994 x x x x
Ionikos Greece 12/1994 02/1997 x x x x
P.A.O.K. Greece 1998 1998 x x x x
AEK Athens Greece 11/1998 05/1999 x x x x
Ionikos Greece 03/2000 01/2002 x x x x
Ukraine Ukraine 01/2003 12/2007 46 21 14 11 45.65 Won qual.group for 2006, Reached 2006 World Cup quarter-finals
Moscow Russia 12/2007 11/2008 30 9 11 10 30.00
Ukraine Ukraine 04/2011 2012 12 5 3 4 41.67 Eliminated at group stage of Euro 2012
Dynamo Kyiv Ukraine 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 Irina Olehivna 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

Dynamo Kyiv

Individual

Ballon d'Or

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.bulvar.com.ua/arch/2011/51/4ef313ba6efb7/
  2. ↑ Олег Блохин: «Москва» должна быть в тройке призёров//www.terrikon.dn.ua
  3. ↑ Football at the 1979 Spartakiad of the Peoples of USSR
  4. ↑ Soccer-Blokhin quits as Ukraine coach by Mikhail Volobuyev, Gennady Fyodorov and Ken Ferris, Reuters, 6 December 2007
  5. ↑ FK Moscow hire former Ukraine manager Blokhin ESPNsoccernet 14 December 2007
  6. ↑ Блохин освобожден от обязанностей главного тренера «Москвы». Sports.ru. 26 November 2008. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ Геннадий Литовченко: «Говорил Блохину, что его будут травить». Sports.ru. 4 December 2008. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
  9. ↑ Ukraine appoint Blokhin, Sky Sports (21 April 2011)
  10. ↑ Oleg Blokhin appointed Ukraine coach, Reuters (21 April 2011)
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 Dynamo president sacks Blokhin for poor performance, Interfax-Ukraine (17 April 2014)
  12. ↑ Dynamo Kyiv signs Blokhin as coach for 4 years, Sports Illustrated (25 September 2012)
  13. ↑ "Oleg Blokhin". National Football Teams. Retrieved 2 January 2011.
  14. 1 2 Oleh Blokhin: "I have scored all of my goals", Den (1998)
  15. ↑ http://sport.lb.ua/football/2013/12/12/246488_blohin_izza_evromaydana.html
  16. ↑ Донька Блохіна заспіває гімн "Євро-2012" (The daughter of Blokhin will sing the Euro 2012 anthem) with photo. TabloID. 11 November 2011
  17. ↑ Yuri Yuris (27 September 2002). Олег Блохин: Место В Истории [Oleg Blokhin: Place in History]. Sport-Express (in Russian). Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  18. ↑ "Legends". Golden Foot. Retrieved 23 September 2015.
  19. ↑ Cup Winners Cup Topscorers. Rsssf.com (18 December 2003). Retrieved 2 January 2011.
  20. ↑ European Champions' Cup 1986–87 – Details. Rsssf.com (17 January 2008). Retrieved 2 January 2011.
  21. ↑ Archived 17 March 2005 at the Wayback Machine.
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