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Igor Belanov

Ukrainian football player and coach

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Igor Belanov was a Ukrainian football player and coach. He is most noted for being one of two Dynamo Kyiv players to win the European Footballer of the Year award, which he received in 1986. Belanov was a striker who played for Dynamo Kyiv during their successful period in the 1980s, contributing to the team's dominance in both the Soviet and Ukrainian leagues.1

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  1. Dynamo Kyiv
  2. Sergey Beloglazov

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