Oleg Blokhin

The famous forward of Dynamo Kiev Oleg Blokhin is a living legend of Soviet sports. The Ukrainian footballer has set many records - in terms of the number of goals scored, the number of matches and sports awards. As a coach of the Ukrainian national team, he brought the team to the top eight leaders of world football. In honor of the popular scorer, the song "Vivat, King!" Was written, performed before Blokhin's farewell match.

Oleg Vladimirovich Blokhin was born on November 5, 1952 in Kiev - the capital of the Ukrainian SSR within the USSR. Oleg's mother, Ekaterina Zakharovna Adamenko, was a famous athlete, she was engaged in long jump, hurdling and pentathlon. The birth of her youngest son (Ekaterina Adamenko also had a son from her first marriage, Nikolai) did not prevent her from performing at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki.

The father of the future champion, Vladimir Ivanovich Blokhin, by the time of his son's birth served in the special department of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, later headed the Federation of Modern Pentathlon of the USSR, headed the educational and sports department of the republican society "Dynamo". Oleg also trained in the training complexes of the Dynamo club. The footballer graduated from the KGI Physical Culture and studied for four years at the Shevchenko KSU at the Faculty of International Relations.

Oleg Blokhin began his sports career as a forward for Dynamo Kiev. The first goal was scored in 1972. In 1975 he contributed to the team's victory in the European Cup Winners' Cup tournament. In the final match against Hungarian "Ferencváros" Blokhin scored the third goal.

In the battles for the UEFA Super Cup, Dynamo, under the leadership of Valery Lobanovsky, twice beat the Cup winner - Bayern Munich, and at the match in Munich, the footballer became the author of the only goal. In this game, the fans noticed and appreciated Blokhin's favorite trick: snatch, breakaway, hit. The ball flew right into the far corner of the goal. The best goals of Oleg Blokhin were scored according to the same scheme worked out to perfection.

He became the top scorer of the USSR championship five times; in the 1974 season, the Dynamo striker hit the opponent's goal twenty times. He played 112 matches for the USSR national team - more than any footballer in the history of Soviet sports, and scored 42 goals. His team reached the World Cup finals in 1982 and 1986. The first Soviet footballer to score two hundred goals.

A complete list of records and achievements of the legendary Ukrainian striker will take more than one page of printed text. Oleg Blokhin has been repeatedly named the best football player according to the fans. He has written four books on football. In 1975 he was awarded the Golden Ball. Before Blokhin, only one Soviet player became the winner of this prestigious award - goalkeeper Lev Yashin. However, the player's career cannot last long, and in 1990 the footballer switched to coaching.

Oleg Blokhin's coaching biography began in Greece. In 1990, the young coach took over the leadership of Olympiacos, a successful team from the city of Piraeus. Strengthened the roster with the help of Oleg Protasov, Gennady Litovchenko and Yuri Savichev. Under the leadership of Blokhin, Olympiacos twice took second place in the national championship, in 1991-1992 won the Greek Cup. At the beginning of 1993, the coach went to work for the football club of Thessaloniki "PAOK".

In 2003, returning to Ukraine, he took over as head coach of the national team. He led the team to the 2006 World Cup quarter-finals. At the end of 2007, Blokhin resigned from his post and became the head coach of the Moscow football club. A year later he left Russia and in the 2009-2010 season he worked as the sports director of the Odessa Chernomorets.

On April 21, 2011 he again became the head coach of the Ukrainian national team, and on September 25, 2012 - the head coach of Dynamo Kiev. However, a serious health condition prevented Oleg Vladimirovich from fully fulfilling his duties in both teams. The ill head was replaced by Andrey Bal in the national team, and Aleksey Mikhailichenko in Dynamo. This season was the least successful for the Kiev club in the years after the collapse of the USSR.

Now Oleg Vladimirovich is the oldest representative of the Blokhin family. In 2011, his brother died, in 2012 - his mother, in 2013 - his father. During this period, Oleg Vladimirovich himself experienced a hypertensive crisis and an operation to remove a blood clot from the carotid artery. After the black stripe, in 2014, Oleg Blokhin left his post as coach of Dynamo Kiev and began to devote more time to his family.

The first wife of the champion was no less bright star of Soviet sports - Irina Deryugina, the absolute world champion in rhythmic gymnastics. The wedding of the most beautiful couple in the USSR took place in 1979 and was widely discussed in the press. The personal life of sports stars was constantly under the gun of journalists. Many photos of the famous family have survived - at the stadium and just walking with a child.

On January 15, 1983, a daughter was born in the family, named after her mother, but better known as Irisha. The girl had every chance to continue the labor dynasty and, after her grandmother and mother, become a famous gymnast. However, Irisha chose music. In 1999, she won the Guitar Center music competition and left for the United States, where she studied at the Los Angeles Acting School and starred in episodes of Hollywood films.

Returning to her homeland, she was engaged in staging the numbers of the Ukrainian national team in rhythmic gymnastics. Her song "Let's Unite the World" became the anthem of Euro 2012. In November 2014, she gave birth to a daughter, Jacqueline, the first and so far the only granddaughter of Oleg Blokhin. By this time, the grandfather was in a new marriage and was raising two more daughters - Anna and Ekaterina, who were born in 2001 and 2002, respectively.

Oleg Blokhin and Irina Deryugina lived together for 19 years, but broke up. Blokhin entered his second marriage at a mature age - at the age of 48. His wife is 16 years younger, her name is Angela, she runs a household and believes that one star in the family is enough. The champion's daughters change their hobbies, played chess and tennis, but the father, who was drilled in childhood, does not force the children to pursue a sports career.

In 2017, the magazine Four Four Two (4-4-2) included Oleg Blokhin in the top 100 players in the history of football. In the ranking, the ex-forward is in 45th place, becoming the only Ukrainian and one of two Soviet players on the list. The famous goalkeeper Lev Yashin is on the 22nd position.

There is talk about Blokhin's desire to return to coaching. In the summer, he rejected the offer of the Chinese who came to Kiev to negotiate with the former coach of Ukrainian and Greek footballers, but he is ready to consider serious options.

In 2018, directors and screenwriters Sergei Dolbilov and Semyon Sluchevsky began filming the documentary "Lobanovsky, Blokhin and others in the unofficial reports of a KGB major." The script was written based on the book by Igor Cherkasov. The premiere is scheduled for May 2018.

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