SOCCER PLAYER

Oleg Blokhin

1952 - Today

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Oleg Vladimirovich Blokhin, or Oleh Volodymyrovych Blokhin (Ukrainian: Оле́г Володи́мирович Блохі́н, Russian: Оле́г Влади́мирович Блохи́н; born 5 November 1952), is a Ukrainian and Soviet former football player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest footballers of his generation, Blokhin was a standout striker for Dynamo Kyiv and the Soviet Union. He holds the all-time top goalscorer record for both Dynamo Kiev (266 goals) and the Soviet Union national team (42 goals), as well as being the overall top goalscorer in the history of the Soviet Top League (211 goals). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Oleg Blokhin has received more than 750,827 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Oleg Blokhin is the 94th most popular soccer player (up from 100th in 2019), the 92nd most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 94th in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Soccer Player.

Oleg Blokhin is most famous for being a football player. He played for Dynamo Kiev and the Soviet Union national team, and is the second-highest scorer in the history of the Soviet Union national team.

Memorability Metrics

  • 750k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 70.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.00

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Oleg Blokhin ranks 94 out of 21,273. Before him are Peter Schmeichel, Gabriel Batistuta, Guillermo Stábile, Gylmar dos Santos Neves, Andreas Brehme, and Fritz Walter. After him are Dragan Džajić, Denis Law, Daniel Passarella, Helenio Herrera, José Altafini, and Bert Trautmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Oleg Blokhin ranks 26. Before him are Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Sammo Hung, Hun Sen, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jeff Goldblum, and Cyril Ramaphosa. After him are Zoran Đinđić, Laura Branigan, Vahid Halilhodžić, Gary Moore, Douglas Adams, and Neil Peart.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Oleg Blokhin ranks 92 out of 1,365. Before him are Bruno Schulz (1892), Anton Makarenko (1888), Andrzej Żuławski (1940), Karl Radek (1885), Clarice Lispector (1920), and Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860). After him are Ivan Franko (1856), Irène Némirovsky (1903), Trofim Lysenko (1898), Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886), Marie Bashkirtseff (1858), and Andriy Shevchenko (1976).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Ukraine

Among soccer players born in Ukraine, Oleg Blokhin ranks 1. After him are Andriy Shevchenko (1976), Igor Belanov (1960), Géza Kalocsay (1913), Oleh Protasov (1964), Yozhef Sabo (1940), Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (1963), Mykhaylo Fomenko (1948), Kazimierz Górski (1921), Serhiy Rebrov (1974), Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (1979), and Anatoliy Demyanenko (1959).

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