Oleh Blokhin, the head coach of the Ukrainian national football team, has entered the top ten best coaches in the world according to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS). Based on the results of 2005, Blokhin, who led the blue-and-yellows to the final part of the 2006 world championship, scored 28 points and took tenth place.
It is noteworthy that Blokhin surpassed in this ranking the head coach of the England national team, Sven-Goran Eriksson, the mentor of the Germany national team, Jurgen Klinsmann, and the "coach" of the Spaniards, Luis Aragones.
The best coach of 2005 was the mentor of the Brazil national team, Carlos Alberto Parreira. In second place is Van Basten, who heads the Netherlands team, and in third is the head coach of Argentina, Jose Pekerman.