Full name||colspan="2"|Oleg Blokhin
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|Date of birth||colspan="2"|November 5, 1952
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|Place of birth||colspan="2"|Kyiv, Ukraine
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|Date of death||colspan="2"|
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|Place of death||colspan="2"|,
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|Height||colspan="2"|180 cm
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! style="background: #b0c4de;" colspan="3" | Club information
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|Current club||colspan="2"|Ukraine
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|Position||colspan="2"|Forward
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|1962-1969||colspan="2"|Dynamo Kyiv
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| Years || Club || Apps (goals)
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|1969-1988 1988-1989 1989-1990 ||Dynamo Kyiv Vorwärts Steyr Aris Limassol||433 (211) 41 (9) 22 (5)
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|1972-1988||USSR||112 (42)
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|1990-1993 1993-1994 1994-1997 1997-1998 1998-1999 1999-2002 2003-||colspan="2"|Olympiakos Piraeus PAOK Saloniki Ionikos PAOK Saloniki AEK Athens Ionikos Ukraine
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* Professional club appearances and (goals) counted for the domestic league only.
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A former Dynamo Kiev player, Blokhin is 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 UEFACup Winners' Cup in 1975 and 1986. Blokhin is 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 1986Football World Cups. He was one of the first Soviet players to play abroad, signing for Austria's Vorwärts Steyr in 1988, he also played in Greece with Aris.
After retiring as a player, Blokhin coached Greek clubs Olympiakos, PAOK, and Ionikos. He has been serving as the head coach of the Ukrainian national team since September 2003. Under his leadership, Ukraine reached quarterfinals of 2006 World Cup. In quarterfinals Ukraine lost to Italy, the 2006 World Champion.
Blokhin was married to Irina Deriugina, the prominent Soviet/Ukrainian gymnast and world champion in free-stand exercise, but the couple divorced in early 1990s. They have a daughter. During 2006 World Cup, Oleg Blokhin is the head coach of the Ukraine's national team.
2006 Racial Controversy
On February 22, 2006 in an [interview (Russian)] on the Ukrainian sports website [sport.com.ua], Blokhin announced that "The more Ukrainians that play in the national league, the more examples for the young generation. Let them learn from Shevchenko or Blokhin and not from some Zumba-Bumba whom they took off a tree, gave him two bananas and now he plays in the Ukrainian League. ...
I remember when I played football, if we lost a game it was not easy to walk the Kiev streets - there were many friends out there who could beat you up for that.
But is there any sense in beating up a foreigner? Okay, you beat him up - next thing he does is pack up and go." These comments received considerable coverage in western editorials.[The soccer Nazis' losing battle] by Tony Karon, Los Angeles Times, June 9, 2006[Setting the scene] by Jen Chang, ESPNsoccernet, June 8, 2006[Daily Record] January,2006
