Oleh Blokhin

Who is Oleh Blokhin?

Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin was a Soviet football player and currently a coach. He is the former head coach of the Ukrainian national team and current FC Dynamo Kyiv head coach. Blokhin was formerly a standout striker for Dynamo Kyiv and the Soviet national team. 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. In 2011 Oleg Blokhin, together with Igor Belanov and Vitaliy Starukhin were named as "the legends of Ukrainian football" at the Victory of Football awards.