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Oleg Salenko: a short biography

Oleg Salenko, whose biography is presented in this article, is a well-known Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian football player at the same time. He gained fame after becoming the best goalscorer of the 1994 World Championship in the Russian national team. He continues to consider himself, as before, a purely Soviet man.

Childhood

The future famous footballer was born in Leningrad on October 25, 1969. His mother was Russian, and his father was Ukrainian. Since childhood, the boy began to play sports in the children's and youth club "Friendship". Later, he moved to the Leningrad school "Smena", a graduate of which he eventually became. Oleg Salenko is the first Soviet football player, for the transfer of which to another team were paid money. In particular, the club "Zenith" laid out for him 36 thousand rubles.

The first professional clubs

As part of the team from his hometown, the player first played in an official match at the age of sixteen. This happened on March 1, 1986. Then the striker came on as a substitute in the second half of the fight against the Moscow "Dynamo" and scored the decisive goal. "Zenith" won in that meeting with a score of 3: 4. As part of the Leningraders, Oleg spent three seasons. Here he was very quickly become a favorite of the local public. Not surprisingly, his transition to Dynamo (Kiev) in 1989, most fans perceived as a betrayal not only of the team, but also of his native city.

Oleg Salenko has not achieved much success in the Ukrainian capital. Experts are inclined to the fact that this is due to the presence in the team of more skillful players, against which the guy could not fully reveal his potential. As a result, in 1992 he was forced to accept the offer of the outsider of the Spanish championship - the club "Logrones". It was with this team that the conquest of the young men of European fields began. Throughout his first season here, in 31 matches, the football player scored sixteen goals. It should be noted that not one player from the countries of the former Soviet Union who ever spoke at La Liga has so far succeeded in repeating this result.

Glasgow Rangers

Since 1995, Oleg Salenko is a footballer of the Rangers club from Glasgow, with whom he signed a contract, designed for three years. According to the athlete himself, the motivation for his move to Scotland was first of all the desire to perform in the Champions League, as well as a decent level of pay. Despite this, he did not manage to stay in the new club for a long time. First of all, the athlete was disappointed in the level of the local championship. Moreover, the house in which he lived, was robbed, and the wife was pregnant. All this in conjunction with the domestic uneasiness and prompted the athlete to change the situation.

End of career

In the winter of 1996, Oleg Salenko received a proposal to continue his career at Istanbul's Istanbul club, which he accepted without much hesitation. According to the results of the first year spent here, he became one of the best goalscorer of his team. At the same time, health problems were increasingly affecting him. The growing pains in the knee, as the footballer himself later admitted, he began to feel even during the Scottish period of his career. As a result, he spent the next two seasons in Turkey offside. After the expiration of the agreement with the club, the player tried to return to the Spanish "Cordoba", but this attempt was unsuccessful. In 2000, the athlete decided to end his professional career. At that time he acted as part of the Polish "Pogonyi".

National teams

In 1992, the player spent his only fight in a T-shirt of the Ukrainian national team against Hungary. In the next season, he was already in favor of Russia. The real star time of the striker fell on the world championship in 1994. Here the goals of Oleg Salenko in the gates of Cameroon in the group stage glorified him to the whole planet. More specifically, he hit the gate of the opponents five times, which allowed him to become the best scorer of mundialya. Moreover, the striker set a world record for the number of goals scored in one match of the World Cup. Despite this, the team could not leave the group.

This fight was the last for the striker for the team. After coming to the coaching bridge of Oleg Romantsev, the football player stopped calling for the location of the national team. According to the player himself, this was due to the fact that the coach did not want to see in his team a football player, whose authority exceeds the coaching. Be that as it may, after leaving the team of Romantsev Oleg Salenko was also not invited to the team. This time, the cause was permanent injuries and a long rehabilitation course.

Results

To summarize, it should be noted that in the championships of the Soviet Union the football player took part in 111 matches, in which 28 times the gate of opponents was struck. In addition, on his account there are 7 goals in 28 European cup matches. Currently, Oleg lives in Kiev. After finishing his professional career, the player became the first coach of the Ukrainian beach soccer team after proclaiming the country's independence. He did not achieve much success here. In the summer of 2014, Salenko headed the team "Tiger" from the Kiev region.

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