Oleg Salenko

Any striker dreams of being the top scorer of the World Cup. The funny thing is that sometimes it takes that honor unheralded, a player who has a bright career for the short period of the most important football competition, and it is not uncommon to return to ostracism. But his name will be immortalized and will always be remembered at the time of the last relembrar world.

There is no doubt that the World 94 of the United States has an owner. And his name is Romario. However, the leader of the scoring was not the "Baixinho" which scored five goals. They finished the competition as top scorers Bulgarian Hristo Stoichkov and Russian Oleg Salenko, both with six goals.

While the former can boast of being one of the leading names in the history of Bulgarian football, Salenko even got signed as an important player for his country.

Even more important to say that the race Salenko was marked by a single party,

just a "friendly" in World full 94. As of June 28, 1994, Russia and Cameroon entered the field of stadium of San Francisco and without any chance of qualifying for the knockout stages. Some even said that Cameroonians played the game mentally depleted, not the loss of 3 a0 defeat to Brazil in the previous game, but by the prolonged party that preceded the morning before the last match at the African World .

The Europeans, apparently sober, had not much difficulty in constructing the score of 6 to 1. Salenko's five goals in that game, added to that had marked in defeat for Sweden, Guaranteed top scorer trophy for the Russian front even with your selection not passing the group stage. Besides being one of the best scorers of the World, the Russian set the record for most goals scored by one player in one game of the tournament. Yes it was his lucky day.

Nothing before anything after

If not that game, it would be difficult to remember someone Oleg Salenko.

Removing the Global 94, the forward played just five games limited by Russia dialing only one goal. A curious fact is that they came to make a match for the Ukraine as well.

Born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Salenko began his professional career at Zenit Leningrad, at age 17. Three years later, in 1989, was in Ukraine, there defending Dinamo Kiev, where he lived his prime. Were 48 goals in three seasons with yellow and blue team.

From 1992 to 1994 he was in the humble Logroñes of Spain. After calling the attention of larger clubs for their participation in the World 94 was transferred to Valencia, where he spent only one season and did not leave a mark on the club.

Thereafter he sojourned in clubs like Glasgow Rangers Scottish, Turkish Istanbulspor, the Spanish Cordoba and was fired in Pogon Szczecin, hidden in Polish football. Various knee injuries forced him to hang up his boots earlier than expected, at 32.