Name

Oleg Blokhin

Date of Birth

05.11.1952 (Kiev, Russia)

Height

1.83

Position

Striker

Nationality

Russian

9 x Russian League : 1969, 1971, 1974, 1975,
1977, 1980, 1981, 1985, 1986
5 x Russian Cup :
1974, 1978, 1982, 1985, 1987
2 x Cup Winners Cup :
1975, 1986
1 x European Supercup :
1975
5 x Russian League Top Scorer :
1972, 1973, 1974,
1975, 1977
1 x European Footballer of the Year :
1975

Season

Team

Games

Goals

Position

1969

Dynamo Kiev

1

0

1st

1970

Dynamo Kiev

0

0

-

1971

Dynamo Kiev

1

0

1st

1972

Dynamo Kiev

27

14

2nd

1973

Dynamo Kiev

29

18

2nd

1974

Dynamo Kiev

29

20

1st

1975

Dynamo Kiev

28

18

1st

1976

Dynamo Kiev

19

8

8th & 2nd

1977

Dynamo Kiev

29

17

1st

1978

Dynamo Kiev

26

14

2nd

1979

Dynamo Kiev

24

17

3rd

1980

Dynamo Kiev

33

19

1st

1981

Dynamo Kiev

29

19

1st

1982

Dynamo Kiev

24

10

2nd

1983

Dynamo Kiev

31

10

7th

1984

Dynamo Kiev

30

10

10th

1985

Dynamo Kiev

29

12

1st

1986

Dynamo Kiev

23

2

1st

1987

Dynamo Kiev

20

4

6th

 

Dynamo Kiev

432

212

0.49 GPG

 

Cup Winners Cup

18

10

0.56 GPG

 

European Cup

43

11

0.26 GPG

 

UEFA Cup

14

2

0.14 GPG

 

Russia

101

35

0.35 GPG

 

Totals

608

270

0.44 GPG

 

In the USSR Cups he scored 21 goals.

For the USSR National Team Blokhine played 112 games (national record) and
scored 42 goals (national record), including World Cups 1982 (5) and 1986 (2),
Olympic Games 1972 (silver medal, 6), 1976 (silver medal, 2).

As a coach :

1990-1991 Olympiakos 2nd
1991-1992 Olympiakos 2nd and won Greece Cup
Then he trained PAOK.

1990 (July) - 1993 (January) Olympiakos (Greece)
1993 (February) - 1994 (May) PAOK (Greece)
1994 (December) - 1997 (February) Ionikos (Greece)

Blokhine is one of the best USSR footballers of the XXth century. His national
records will never be updated, because the USSR has collapsed. And instead
one tournament (the USSR championship) and one national team fifteen
championship have become and fifteen national teams too, Blokhine didn't
have possibility to play for a foreign club in the seventies, when he was
showing his best performances. Only after the perestroyka due to Michael
Gorbachev, when Blokhine finished his perfect career, he got that opportunity.

His today's follower, Andrey Shevchenko, who was born in Kiev in a year after
Blokhine became the best European player and started his career in Dinamo
Kiev too, has more better possibilities.

Blokhine, as Shevchenko, was trained by one of the greatest coaches of the
USSR and Europe Valery Lobanovsky who won the second place in Euro-Cup
88 (it was a big success for the USSR), two Cups Winners Cup (in 1975 and in
1986), European Supercup in 1975 and continues training Dinamo Kiev and
Ukranian National Team now. Blokhine was an unique player who has won
both Cups Winner Cup with Dinamo Kiev and Lobanosky. And this record is
eternal too, because that Cup did not exist now.

Sergey V Polishchuk