Igor Ivanovich Belanov

Igor Belanov
Belanov (March 2012)
Personnel
Surname	Igor Ivanovich Belanov
birthday	September 25, 1960
place of birth	Odessa , Ukrainian SSR ,  Soviet Union
size	174 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1979-1980	SKA Odessa	68 (16)
1981-1984	Chornomorets Odessa	116 (26)
1985-1989	Dynamo Kiev	121 (39)
1989-1990	Borussia M'Gladbach	24 0(4)
1991-1995	Eintracht Braunschweig	71 (21)
1995	Chornomorets Odessa	3 0(1)
1996-1997	Illichivets Mariupol	5 0(4)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1985-1990	Soviet Union	33 0(8)
1 Only league games are given.

Igor Belanov ( Russian Игорь Иванович Беланов , Ukrainian Ігор Іванович Бєланов Ihor Iwanowytsch Bjelanow * 25. September 1960 in Odessa , Soviet Union ) is a retired Soviet and Ukrainian football player .

Athletic career

Club career

In the top Soviet league , Belanov played for Chornomorez Odessa , for whom he played again in the now top Ukrainian league in the mid-1990s , and Dynamo Kiev . With the latter he won the European Cup Winners' Cup in the 1985/86 season with a 3-0 final victory over Club Atlético de Madrid in Lyon .

In October 1989, Belanov became the first Soviet national player to join the Bundesliga . Borussia Mönchengladbach had paid a transfer fee of two million DM for Belanow, who had already passed his performance peak and was mostly only a substitute at Dynamo Kiev, according to press reports. The native Ukrainian played for Borussia until December 1990 and scored only four goals in 24 games. During the winter break of the 1990/91 season he moved to Eintracht Braunschweig in the second division . In 38 second division games, Belanow met 13 times for Lower Saxony, from which he separated in the summer of 1994 after a season in the then third-class Oberliga Nord with 26 appearances and eight goals.

Selection bets

At the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, the winger played a strong tournament with the Soviet national team under coach Valery Lobanovsky , which, together with his performance in the European Cup win at Dynamo Kiev , earned him the award of Europe's Footballer of the Year 1986 . Belanow had scored once in the preliminary round, which the Soviet Union finished as group winners before European champions France, and in the 3-4 defeat against Belgium he had scored all three goals. Total Belanow was in Sbornaja 33 times active (8 goals). In qualifying for the European Championship in 1988 Belanow had scored four goals for his team. He didn't score during the tournament. The bitterest moment and at the same time the greatest success on the selection level was the final of the European Championship in 1988 in the Munich Olympic Stadium , which the Soviet Union lost 2-0 to the Dutch team of Gullit , van Basten and Rijkaard . Belanow failed in this game with a penalty against Dutch goalkeeper Hans van Breukelen . Before the 1990 World Cup, his time in Sbornaya ended in a test match after 33 international matches .

Further career

In 2003 he took over the majority of shares in the Swiss football club FC Wil . Under him, Wil won the Swiss Cup for the first time and therefore took part in the UEFA Cup qualification in the following season. Due to various differences, Belanow left FC Wil again, and the AG went into inheritance proceedings. On May 14, 2016 he received the Ukrainian Order of Merit 1st Class from the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko .

successes

• Soviet champion (2): 1985, 1986
• Soviet Cup Winner (2): 1985, 1987
• European Cup Winners' Cup : 1985/86
• Europe's footballer of the year 1986
• Top scorer European Cup Winners' Cup: 1985/86 (5 goals)
• Second European Championship in 1988

Web links

• Igor Iwanowitsch Belanow in the database of weltfussball.de
• Igor Iwanowitsch Belanow in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Igor Iwanowitsch Belanow in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Igor Iwanowitsch Belanow in the database of the German Football Association
• Igor Iwanowitsch Belanow in the database of kicker.de
• Igor Iwanowitsch Belanow in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Igor Iwanowitsch Belanow in the database of EU-Football.info (English)
• Personal profile with curriculum vitae on the website of the Russian national football team (Russian)
• Biography on gol-gol.info (Russian)
• Interview from August 14, 2000 in the newspaper Sport-Express (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Endangered Lifetime Achievement in Spiegel of November 6, 1989, accessed on December 28, 2015
2. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Ihor Ivanovych Belanov - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF.com . June 24, 2020. Accessed June 29, 2020.
3. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Igor Ivanovich Belanov - International Appearances . RSSSF.com . June 24, 2020. Accessed June 29, 2020.
4. ↑ Article about the celebrations on May 14, 2016 on the official website of the President of Ukraine; accessed on January 8, 2018 (Ukrainian)
5. ↑ Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 210/2016 on the official website of the President of Ukraine; accessed on January 8, 2018 (Ukrainian)