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In the history of our football, only three Ukrainians won the Golden Ball. Two even in the USSR-Oleg Blokhin in 1975, Igor Belanov in 1986. Andriy Shevchenko did this during the sovereign Ukraine (in 2004).
One of the experts considered Belanov’s victory by random. In the same 1986, his classmate was recognized as the best football player of the USSR. The speech at the World Cup in Mexico helped to win Igor in the continental arena.
In a dramatic duel with the Belgians in the framework of the 1/8 finals, Belanov was able to decorate a hat trick, and a little earlier Kiev Dynamo, which was the skeleton of the USSR national team, won the cup of cup owners. Igor flashed a comet and quickly dissolved in the football European horizon. Five years later, the forward was already in Eintracht, Braunschweig, who flew from the Second German Bundesliga in the Third Division. But Belanov still went down in the history of Ukrainian and European football.
The author of these lines made several exclusive interviews with Igor Ivanovich. The quintessence of the answers of the best football player in Europe -1986 is given below.
Ruthless Lobanovsky– Mr. Igor, you are one of the few Dynamo players who, after completing his football career, did not stay in Kiev. Why?
– He could live in the capital, but there was no desire. I am Odessa. This is my city. He grew up on Moldovanka. Running barefoot, swimming in the sea – all this is delayed in memory. Odesa is a joy, a life. However, I will probably understand only Odessa. I remember the late Viktor Prokopenko said:
“Life is given to a person once, and he must live by the sea.”
I fully agree with this thesis. He could stay in Germany. But I didn’t want to.
– What was your salary in the Menhangladbas Borussia?
– 300 thousand marks a year. The club also provided a two -storey building, Mercedes. There was a feeling that he got into paradise. Probably a little relaxed – psychologically it is difficult to take everything immediately. But do not forget that he arrived in Borussia at almost 30. And before that he spent six years in Dynamo Kiev. Where the year goes for three.
Oleg Blokhin in the Austrian Fontverts in 36 years went. Who did we need at that age? This is 23-25 to go, then you can play well. I agree with the idea that the football player is usually given six years of successful career. Then there are downs, falling. I played my six years in Dynamo. Valery Lobanovsky did not regret us. But we not only ran Cross, we won. Both in the USSR and in Europe.
– Heard that you won not only on the football field, but also in the pool.
– There was a story. From the USSR national team, they were restored on the basis in Novorsk. The assistant of Lobanovsky Vladimir Veremeev was swimming well. He overtook anyone on the dispute. I decided to compete with him. He quietly pulled the flippers on his feet, went down into the pool. And I shout from there, they say, weak, Grigorovich with me, a person who grew up by the sea, to compete. Veremeyev accepted the call.
After a swim, it was painful to look – I finished when he did not overcome a third of the distance. I dropped the flippers to the bottom – I climbed without them so that the opponent did not suspect anything. In my opinion, Veremeyev never learned about it. Unless, of course, Lobanovsky did not tell him about the flippers. Valery saw how I wore them, and after the finish line with laughter told me:
“Well, you, Igor, and gave!”
– But you probably did not laugh when Sovintersport took away fees for participating in the match of the national team – the United Kingdom team, dedicated to the centenary of British football.
– I remember the game on Wemble. In London we flew three of us – I, Rinat Dasyaev and Sasha Zavarov. They played, we were handed over five thousand dollars. Returned home, Lobanovsky calls and says:
“You need to give money to soviet transport.”
I rested, they say, how so it was a personal invitation. Valery Vasilyevich only spread his hands in response:
“Must be given.”
The logofet, in my opinion, took the money. All three checks were given. We had to give daily a trip – about $ 300 or $ 400. Above we calculated that this amount will be enough of us.
– It is true that when you were handed the Golden Ball, did you still have your apartment in Kiev?
– True. When the France Football delegation arrived interviews, he was ashamed to invite them to an office apartment. He said that my repair was going. Own housing appeared only a year later. But I don’t complain. After all, we did our simple football business. While playing Dynamo, he received five Volg. He sold them for forty thousand. And from abroad computers were brought. In general, 60 thousand were taken away.
Face down– They say, once representatives of Ukrainian special forces were stacked down. It was that?
– then drunk coffee with a friend. It was a long time ago. A friend is the head of one of the opposition parties. I went to his office for a visit, I calmly drink coffee. Suddenly, security forces with automatic machines are bursting. I try to keep inviolability and continue to drink coffee. Amber in the mask is tempted to me, gives me a machine gun and shouts “face down”. I tell him:
“Son, you will apologize in five minutes in front of me. Let me better sit quietly. I promise not to run away.”
But he cited the machine and shouts like a scared. I had to obey the rough power. This crazy foot put my foot on my back and pushed – type so that I was harder to the floor with my face. He lay for five minutes – until their boss came. He looked at me and asked to introduce himself. When he called himself, he has a little disappeared:
“Igor, I have been your fan for so many years. Sorry for misunderstanding.”
The fighter withdrew to the side, he immediately apologized to me.
– Haven’t you become angry after this incident?
– And the meaning? On the contrary, I become kinder with age. After 40 years, he became good at all.
– True, that at some stage could you return to Dynamo?
– A call from Igor Surkis came after my interview in one of the Ukrainian media. On the eve of Dynamo in the group tournament of the Champions League gave way to at home Stiaua with a difference of three balls. I was called by journalists, and I said everything I think about it. He emphasized that the current dynamics are simply disgraced by those people who have created glory to this team for years.
Igor Mikhailovich called the next day. He says he liked my words. Like, you can see that you are worried about Dynamo. And he continued that I had a serious offer. In my opinion, it was about the position of sports director. But then this post was occupied by Leonid Buryak. Could not go to his place.
– Your “golden ball” has been for many years. How does he look now?
– Still glitters if you are about it. I often take it with me for some performances. I demonstrate to ordinary people. Fans and children are pleased to touch this troph I.
Just a factFor Eintracht Braunschweig, who flew from the Second German Bundesliga in the third division, three legionnaires performed. In the “yellow-blue” colors of the club came the native of Odessa the owner of the Golden ball-1986 striker Igor Belanov, a native of Transcarpathia Vice-Employment of Europe-1988 composition of the USSR national team midfielder Victor Pasulko and the Olympic Fabius of the SSSR.
After the end of the game career, Pasulko and Fokin remained in Germany, accepting German citizenship. Belanov returned to Odessa.
Personal businessIgor Belanov.
- He was born on September 25, 1960 in Odessa.
- He spoke for the teams of Chernomorets Odesa (1978, 1981-1984, 1995), SKA Odesa (1979-1980), Dynamo Kyiv (1985-1989), Borussia Menshengladbach, Germany (1989-1990), Eintracht Braunshweig, Germany (1991-
- USSR Champion 1985, 1986. Winner of the USSR Cup 1985, 1987, 1990.
- Winner of the Cup winners -1986.
- The owner of the gold ball -1986
- Silver medalist of the European Championship-1988.
- He spent 33 matches for the USSR national team, scored 8 goals.
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In the history of our football, only three Ukrainians won the Golden Ball. Two even in the USSR-Oleg Blokhin in 1975, Igor Belanov in 1986. Andriy Shevchenko did this during the sovereign Ukraine (in 2004).
One of the experts considered Belanov’s victory by random. In the same 1986, his classmate was recognized as the best football player of the USSR. The speech at the World Cup in Mexico helped to win Igor in the continental arena.
In a dramatic duel with the Belgians in the framework of the 1/8 finals, Belanov was able to decorate a hat trick, and a little earlier Kiev Dynamo, which was the skeleton of the USSR national team, won the cup of cup owners. Igor flashed a comet and quickly dissolved in the football European horizon. Five years later, the forward was already in Eintracht, Braunschweig, who flew from the Second German Bundesliga in the Third Division. But Belanov still went down in the history of Ukrainian and European football.
The author of these lines made several exclusive interviews with Igor Ivanovich. The quintessence of the answers of the best football player in Europe -1986 is given below.
Ruthless Lobanovsky– Mr. Igor, you are one of the few Dynamo players who, after completing his football career, did not stay in Kiev. Why?
– He could live in the capital, but there was no desire. I am Odessa. This is my city. He grew up on Moldovanka. Running barefoot, swimming in the sea – all this is delayed in memory. Odesa is a joy, a life. However, I will probably understand only Odessa. I remember the late Viktor Prokopenko said:
“Life is given to a person once, and he must live by the sea.”
I fully agree with this thesis. He could stay in Germany. But I didn’t want to.
– What was your salary in the Menhangladbas Borussia?
– 300 thousand marks a year. The club also provided a two -storey building, Mercedes. There was a feeling that he got into paradise. Probably a little relaxed – psychologically it is difficult to take everything immediately. But do not forget that he arrived in Borussia at almost 30. And before that he spent six years in Dynamo Kiev. Where the year goes for three.
Oleg Blokhin in the Austrian Fontverts in 36 years went. Who did we need at that age? This is 23-25 to go, then you can play well. I agree with the idea that the football player is usually given six years of successful career. Then there are downs, falling. I played my six years in Dynamo. Valery Lobanovsky did not regret us. But we not only ran Cross, we won. Both in the USSR and in Europe.
– Heard that you won not only on the football field, but also in the pool.
– There was a story. From the USSR national team, they were restored on the basis in Novorsk. The assistant of Lobanovsky Vladimir Veremeev was swimming well. He overtook anyone on the dispute. I decided to compete with him. He quietly pulled the flippers on his feet, went down into the pool. And I shout from there, they say, weak, Grigorovich with me, a person who grew up by the sea, to compete. Veremeyev accepted the call.
After a swim, it was painful to look – I finished when he did not overcome a third of the distance. I dropped the flippers to the bottom – I climbed without them so that the opponent did not suspect anything. In my opinion, Veremeyev never learned about it. Unless, of course, Lobanovsky did not tell him about the flippers. Valery saw how I wore them, and after the finish line with laughter told me:
“Well, you, Igor, and gave!”
– But you probably did not laugh when Sovintersport took away fees for participating in the match of the national team – the United Kingdom team, dedicated to the centenary of British football.
– I remember the game on Wemble. In London we flew three of us – I, Rinat Dasyaev and Sasha Zavarov. They played, we were handed over five thousand dollars. Returned home, Lobanovsky calls and says:
“You need to give money to soviet transport.”
I rested, they say, how so it was a personal invitation. Valery Vasilyevich only spread his hands in response:
“Must be given.”
The logofet, in my opinion, took the money. All three checks were given. We had to give daily a trip – about $ 300 or $ 400. Above we calculated that this amount will be enough of us.
– It is true that when you were handed the Golden Ball, did you still have your apartment in Kiev?
– True. When the France Football delegation arrived interviews, he was ashamed to invite them to an office apartment. He said that my repair was going. Own housing appeared only a year later. But I don’t complain. After all, we did our simple football business. While playing Dynamo, he received five Volg. He sold them for forty thousand. And from abroad computers were brought. In general, 60 thousand were taken away.
Face down– They say, once representatives of Ukrainian special forces were stacked down. It was that?
– then drunk coffee with a friend. It was a long time ago. A friend is the head of one of the opposition parties. I went to his office for a visit, I calmly drink coffee. Suddenly, security forces with automatic machines are bursting. I try to keep inviolability and continue to drink coffee. Amber in the mask is tempted to me, gives me a machine gun and shouts “face down”. I tell him:
“Son, you will apologize in five minutes in front of me. Let me better sit quietly. I promise not to run away.”
But he cited the machine and shouts like a scared. I had to obey the rough power. This crazy foot put my foot on my back and pushed – type so that I was harder to the floor with my face. He lay for five minutes – until their boss came. He looked at me and asked to introduce himself. When he called himself, he has a little disappeared:
“Igor, I have been your fan for so many years. Sorry for misunderstanding.”
The fighter withdrew to the side, he immediately apologized to me.
– didn’t get angry after this incident?
– And the meaning? On the contrary, I become kinder with age. After 40 years, he became good at all.
– True, that at some stage could you return to Dynamo?
– A call from Igor Surkis came after my interview in one of the Ukrainian media. On the eve of Dynamo in the group tournament of the Champions League gave way to at home Stiaua with a difference of three balls. I was called by journalists, and I said everything I think about it. He emphasized that the current dynamics are simply disgraced by those people who have created glory to this team for years.
Igor Mikhailovich called the next day. He says he liked my words. Like, you can see that you are worried about Dynamo. And he continued that I had a serious offer. In my opinion, it was about the position of sports director. But then this post was occupied by Leonid Buryak. Could not go to his place.
– Your “golden ball” has been for many years. How does he look now?
– Still glitters if you are about it. I often take it with me for some performances. I demonstrate to ordinary people. Fans and children are pleased to touch this trophy.
Just a factFor Eintracht Braunschweig, who flew from the Second German Bundesliga in the third division, three legionnaires performed. In the “yellow-blue” colors of the club came the native of Odessa the owner of the Golden ball-1986 striker Igor Belanov, a native of Transcarpathia Vice-Employment of Europe-1988 composition of the USSR national team midfielder Victor Pasulko and the Olympic Fabius of the SSSR.
After the end of the game career, Pasulko and Fokin remained in Germany, accepting German citizenship. Belanov returned to Odessa.
Personal businessIgor Belanov.
- He was born on September 25, 1960 in Odessa.
- He spoke for the teams of Chernomorets Odesa (1978, 1981-1984, 1995), SKA Odesa (1979-1980), Dynamo Kyiv (1985-1989), Borussia Menshengladbach, Germany (1989-1990), Eintracht Braunshweig, Germany (1991-
- USSR Champion 1985, 1986. Winner of the USSR Cup 1985, 1987, 1990.
- Winner of the Cup winners -1986.
- The owner of the gold ball -1986
- Silver medalist of the European Championship-1988.
- He spent 33 matches for the USSR national team, scored 8 goals.