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Blokhin keeps his word

AFP, Kiev
He was a star striker in the Soviet era. Now Oleg Blokhin's star is rising again after becoming the first coach to lead an independent Ukraine into the next year's World Cup finals.
"We did it!" Blokhin screamed after hearing that his squad had qualified for the finals. "A lot of people called me an adventurer when I promised to lead Ukraine into the finals."
"I know that they will call me crazy but I believe that now we are capable of winning the World Cup!"
Though Ukraine failed to book their pass to Germany in a head-to-head clash with Georgia, where they recorded a 1-1 draw, they still clinched a World Cup finals berth after Turkey drew 2-2 with Denmark at home.
Saturday's results left Ukraine with an unassailable seven-point lead over the Turks with two qualifiers remaining.
Ukraine became the first European team to qualify for the 2006 World Cup apart from hosts Germany.
"The dream comes true!" said the team's skipper Andriy Shevchenko. "I've got a lot of personal prizes during my career but I always have been dreaming to achieve something with my country's team."
"I'm happy! One should experience that feeling at least once in his life."
The 53-year-old former striker Blokhin, who won 112 caps and scored 42 goals for the Soviet national side and was the 1975 European Footballer of the Year, has scored another goal: making good on a promise many thought a tad bold at the time to get Ukraine into the 2006 World Cup finals.
"Blokhin is a man and a coach, who is full of ambitions," the head of Ukraine's Football Federation, Grigory Surkis, said after Blokhin was appointed in September 2003.
"He really cares about our football and the country's national squad. And he himself is a symbol of winning spirit."
The confidence of Ukraine's football supremo payed off as Blokhin called back to his team experienced veterans Vladislav Vashchuk and Sergei Rebrov, bolstering his side with a set of new and talented players.
His squadron managed to collect four points in a two-match opposition with Denmark and the European champions Greece, thrashing 3-0 the 2002 World Cup bronze medalists Turkey at their home turf.
Ukraine have also maintained a 100-percent record in matches with the group's underdogs Albania and Kazakhstan.
However, the country's first success was recently under serious threat when Blokhin was forced to announce his resignation earlier this year after a row over his position as a member of Ukrainian parliament.
Blokhin, who won two European Cup Winners' Cups with Dynamo Kiev in 1975 and 1986, is a member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).
The SDP supported Viktor Yanukovich, who lost the race for president to Viktor Yushchenko, whose supporters, Blokhin claimed, haddriven himoutas national coach.
"I feel pain in my heart leaving the team, which is my life and the heart of my desire to serve my Motherland," Blokhin said explaining his decision. "However I have no other choice but to step down."