Oleg Salenko

Oleg Anatolyevich Salenko was born on October 25, 1969, in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg. A striker revealed at Zenit, he was the leading scorer at the 1989 FIFA U-20 World Championship and transferred to Dynamo Kyiv, where he won the Soviet Championship and the Soviet Cup in 1990. He played one match for Ukraine in 1992 and then went on to play for Russia, with eight matches and six goals. All six of those goals came in the 1994 World Cup: one penalty in the 3-1 loss to Sweden and five in the 6-1 victory over Cameroon, on June 28, a record for goals by a player in a single World Cup match. Russia was eliminated in the group stage, but Salenko shared the Golden Boot with Bulgarian Hristo Stoichkov, becoming the only World Cup top scorer whose team was eliminated in the first phase. In his club career, he also played for Logroñés, Valencia, Rangers, Scottish champions in 1995-96, İstanbulspor, Córdoba and Pogoń Szczecin.