Oleg Protasov é um ex-atacante soviético que marcou 35 gols no Campeonato Soviético de 1985, recorde da competição. Foi vice-campeão europeu com a URSS em 1988.
Oleg Protasov
Oleg Protasov is a former Soviet and Ukrainian striker born on February 4, 1964, in Dnipropetrovsk, now Dnipro. Revealed by Dnipro, he was a Soviet champion with the club in 1983. In 1985, he scored 35 goals in the Soviet Championship and set the record for goals in a single edition of the competition. He later transferred to Dynamo Kyiv, then managed by Valeriy Lobanovskyi. For the USSR national team, he played in the 1986 and 1990 World Cups and was runner-up in the 1988 European Championship. In that tournament, he scored one of the goals in the 2-0 victory over Italy in the semifinal. In 1990, he transferred to Olympiacos, in Greece, and later also played at Gamba Osaka, in Japan.