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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: Alexandros Alexandris, Alexis Gavrilopoulos, Alkis Dimitris, Amr El Halwani, Angelos Digozis, Angelos Vertzos, Antonis Natsouras, Bartosz Tarachulski, Billy Konstantinidis, Bjorn Morgan Enqvist, Carlos Basombrio, Carlo Costly, Charalambos Siligardakis, Christos Kagiouzis, Christos Koutsospyros, Christos Pipinis, Dimitrios Geladaris, Dimitris Diamantopoulos, Dimitris Petkakis, Dimitris Samaras, Emmanuel Ekwueme, Esteban Jose Herrera, Eugen Neagoe, Franck Manga Guela, Franck Rolling, Frank Ruiz, Franti ek Jakubec, Georgios Melabianakis, Geraldo dos Santos Junior, Giannis Alexiou, Giorgos Koltzos, Giorgos Lazaridis, Giuseppe Vela Junior, Goran Stevanovi, Guillermo Perez Moreno, Henry Isaac, Ilias Mihalopoulos, Ilias Solakis, Jean-Jacques Allais, Joost Terol, Jorge Huaman, Jose Carlos Santos da Silva, Jose Mendoza Zambrano, Juan Carlos Bazalar, Juan Martin Pietravallo, Karim Mouzaoui, Ljubomir Vorkapi, Loukas Apostolidis, Lucien Mettomo, Maciej Bykowski, Marcio Giovanini, Marco Aurelio Ribeiro Barbieri, Matias Omar Degra, Michael Olaitan, Miha Kline, Miloje Petkovi, Minas Hantzidis, Mustapha Kamal N'Daw, Nerijus Astrauskas, Nikolaos Georgiadis, Nikos Katsavakis, Nikos Kyzeridis, Oleh Protasov, Panagiotis Bachramis, Panagiotis Tsalouchidis, Paul de Lange, Petros Kanakoudis, Petros Topouzis, Radovan Krivokapi, Ricardo Mion Varella Costa, Ricardo Paez, Rodrigo Barbosa Rodrigues Costa, Sa a Rani, Savvas Poursaitidis, Stefanos Voskaridis, Stefano Seedorf, tefan Stoica, Tasos Mitropoulos, Thanasis Paleologos, Thankgod Amaefule, Themistoklis Tzimopoulos, Theodoros Pakaltsis, Theodoros Vasilakakis, Timos Kavakas, Vasilis Samaras, Zden k Hru ka, Ze Vitor. Excerpt: Oleh Valeriyovych Protasov (Ukrainian: ) (born 4 February 1964, in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) is a former football striker. He was a key member of the Soviet Union national team throughout the 1980s; his 29 goals for the Soviet Union are second in the team's history, behind Oleh Blokhin's 42. It should be considered that his first name is often spelled as Oleg on most of international rosters, particularly during his playing career. Oleh Protasov started playing football at the age of 8 years old in his hometown of Dnipropetrovsk in Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, where he played until 1987. In 1987, Protasov moved to play for the Soviet-Ukrainian football giants, Dynamo Kyiv. In all, in the Soviet Union, he won the Soviet Championship twice and was named Soviet Footballer of the Year in 1987. He scored 125 goals in the Soviet Championship, making him the 8th best scorer of all-time of the Championship. Following the fall of the Soviet Union, Oleh Protasov got a chance to play abroad. In 1990, he joined Greek side Olympiacos Piraeus. Leaving Olympiakos in 1994, he played in Gamba Osaka, Veria FC, and finally Proodeftiki FC, from where he retired in 1999. Protasov played for the Soviet Union 68 times, including at the 1986 and 1990 FIFA World Cups, as well as Euro 88, where he scored two goals. He also played one game for the Ukraine national team, in 1994. After retiring as a player, Protasov went into coaching, and led Olympiacos Piraeus to the Greek title in 2003. In 2005, he coached Romanian team Steaua Bucure ti. In December 2005, Oleh Protasov returned in Ukraine to coach his hometown team, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, after an impressive UEFA Cup performance with Steaua Bucure ti. Protasov left by his own choice and was on very good terms with the entire team and owners of the club. In his first 2005-06 season as Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk's coach, Oleh Protasov led the team to a 6th place finish in the Ukrainian Premier League. In the next, 2006-07 season, Protasov improved on thi
