Oleh Blokhin
Blokhin 2012
Oleh Wolodymyrowytsch Blokhin ( born November 5, 1952 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, Ukrainian Олег Володимирович Блохін, scientific transliteration Oleh Volodymyrovyč Blokhin, nicknamed Blocha ( flea); under his Russian name form Олег Владимирович Блохин / Oleg Vladimirovich Blokhin known) is a former Ukrainian football player and current coach of Dynamo Kiev.
- 3.1 individual
- 3.2 with the team
Playing career
In the club
Blokhin was brought up in a rich family. His father was a Ukrainian association football coach of the Juniors, his mother Yekaterina Adamenko national champion in the 100 -meter run. Supposedly it is supposed to have inspired her son with little prissy actions to more power. Meet Blochins power not to set high expectations, the boy got no food on the table.
The football games learned the young Oleg age of ten at Dynamo Kiev. But the athletics department of the club was interested in the talent from his mother - had inherited the sprint talent - their Ukrainian league title they erlief in 11.9 seconds. In its heyday Blokhin ran the 100 meters in 11.0 seconds; his personal best time was 10.8 seconds. 1971 Blokhin occurred in a UEFA youth tournament in Czechoslovakia as a prolific striker in appearance. After taking office in 1973 the new coach Valeri Lobanovsky Dynamo Kiev formed one of the best club teams in the world. The team won the Soviet Championship, Blokhin for the first of seven national titles ( until 1986 ) 1974. These successes such as the profits of the national Cup (1974, 1978, 1985) had " Blokha " ( " flea " ), as the lightning-fast left winger was called, as more time top scorer significant proportion. The game his team was very focused on their star. 1973, 1974 and 1975, he was selected in each case to the Soviet Footballer of the Year, 1972-1981, he was also nine Ukrainian Footballer of the Year.
1975 succeeded Dynamo Kiev then the first success at the European level, the team won the European Cup Winners' Cup. 3-0 in the final against Ferencvaros Blokhin steered the results in the final score. In the same year Dynamo Kiev won against Bayern Munich and the UEFA Super Cup. As a personal distinction Blokhin was elected in 1975 and European Footballer of the Year. He was considered one of the best strikers in the 1970s and received in the aftermath numerous offers from Western countries (including Hamburger SV ), but the Soviet Union did not let his biggest star drag. 1986 Kiev again won the European Cup Winners' Cup. As early as 1975 Blokhin scored this time in the final score, as the favored team of Atlético Madrid was defeated 3-0.
1988 Blokhin made his last game for Dynamo Kiev, for whom he had scored 211 goals in 433 league games. This performance marked a record for the Soviet league. 1988 succeeded the former Zweitdivisionär Vorwärts Steyr a sensational coup when the Upper Austrians were able to sign the 36 -year-old USSR Legionnaire.
After his involvement in Vorwärts Steyr He played one more season in the Cypriot club Aris Limassol.
In the National Team
Blokhin played in the U-23 team of the USSR, the peers of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was defeated in the 1972 European Championship in the finals with 2:2 and 1:3; while he scored a goal each. Less than three weeks later he was on 16 July 1972 at 1:1 in Finland his debut in the Soviet national team. Although Blokhin would have liked to play at the 1974 World Cup in Germany, but did it happen for political reasons. After the coup in Chile, the USSR refused to compete in a qualifier in Santiago de Chile. Reason for this decision: the stadium of the Chilean capital had served as a place of internment for political prisoners.
For the 1978 World Cup in Argentina and the European Championship in 1980, the Soviets could not qualify each. It was not until 1982 in Spain the Sbornaja was there again. The team around the 29 -year-old Blokhin was one of the strongest teams in the tournament playful and missed the semi-finals only because of goal difference.
After retired between time injuries and poor form, Blokhin returned to the qualifying matches for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico back in the national squad back. But in the finals he came only twice used, he had passed its zenith. On September 21, 1988 ( 0-1 defeat in Dusseldorf against the team of the DFB) he finished after more than 16 years of his career in the national team. For the Sbornaja he denied the FIFA rules about international matches taking into account, 101 games in which he scored 35 goals.
Coaching career
In 1990, he ended the playing career and has since worked as a coach at various Greek clubs. Since the start of the qualifying round for the World Cup in Germany in 2006 Blokhin coached with great success the national football team of Ukraine, which qualified as the leader of the group 2 for the World Cup finals and after wins over Saudi Arabia ( 4-0), Tunisia (1-0 ) and Switzerland (3-0 p) moved into the quarter-finals, but where it was eliminated by eventual champions Italy. On 6 December 2007 Blokhin announced his resignation as head coach. On 14 December 2007 he joined a new coach of the Russian first division side FK Moscow. On November 27, 2008 it was announced that he would not renew his expiring contract a few days later. He had finished with the club, the season in ninth place. In April 2011, he was again coach of the Ukrainian national football team.
On September 25, 2012 Blokhin took over the first team of Dynamo Kiev. He signed a contract for four years.
Achievements
Individual
- European Footballer of the Year: 1975
- Player of the year in the USSR: 1973, 1974, 1975
- Footballer of the Year in Ukraine: 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981
- Scorer in the USSR: 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977
- Scorer of the European Cup Winners' Cup: 1986
- Soviet top scorer and most capped player
- The most important football players in Ukraine
With the team
- UEFA Super Cup: 1975
- European Cup Winners' Cup: 1975, 1986
- Soviet champion: 1971, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1985 and 1986
- Soviet Cup winner: 1974, 1978, 1982, 1985 and 1987
With all the success he played for Dynamo Kiev
Private
Blokhin was married to the Russian Gymnastics World Champion Irina Deriugina. Their daughter is the singer Ireesha Blohina.