Career
He scored a record five goals in a group stage match in the 1994 World Cup, helping him earn the Golden Boot as joint-top tournament goalscorer. Salenko played at Zenit Leningrad, Dynamo Kyiv, Logroñés, Córdoba, Valencia, Rangers and İstanbulspor in a club career that lasted from 1986 to 2000. Eventually, he faded from the international soccer scene and finally had to end his career prematurely for health reasons stemming from injuries.
Salenko returned to playing professional football in the 2000-2001 season and signed for Pogoń Szczecin.
He retired after playing a single game however due to his physical conditioning. Salenko set a World Cup record by scoring five goals in one game, for Russia against Cameroon on 28 June 1994.
Salenko finished the 1994 World Cup with six goals (scoring his sixth goal from the penalty spot against Sweden), sharing the Golden Boot with Hristo Stoichkov, a remarkable feat since Russia was knocked out in the first round, and Stoichkov"s Bulgaria played another four games in the tournament. Salenko played a total of only nine international matches, one of them for Ukraine (the very first one), and he never scored in an international game before or after the 1994 World Cup.
In fact, after the match against Cameroon, he never appeared in another international.
In 2003, Salenko was appointed as manager of the Ukraine national beach football team The tournament took place at the end of July in Portugal under the name Mundialito. After the tournament, he was dismissed.
He is now currently a part of FFU assisting staff