Oleh Blokhin

Oleh Blokhin sits in that rare tier of footballers whose names still carry weight decades later. Winning the 1975 Ballon d'Or as a Dynamo Kyiv and Soviet striker put him among the elite of his era, and I find his second act just as compelling. He moved from scoring goals to coaching and then to serving his country, collecting Ukraine's Orders of Merit across every class. Few athletes manage to be both a sporting legend and a genuine national figure. I see him as a bridge between an old footballing world and modern Ukrainian identity, and I hold him in real esteem.

Name (English)

Oleh Blokhin

Name (Japanese)

オレグ・ブロヒン

Reading

おれぐ・ぶろひん

Born

November 5, 1952 (age 73)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Dragon

Origin

Kyiv, Kievan Rus'

Height

180 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach / politician

Awards & achievements

• Master of Sport of the USSR, International Class
• 1975 Ballon d'Or
• Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class
• Order of Merit (Ukraine), 2nd class
• Order of Merit, 1st class
• Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR
• Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 5th class
• Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 4th class

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg%20Blokhin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AD%E3%83%92%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186691

Tags

• association football player
• association football coach
• politician

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.