Legendary Dynamo Kiev football player Igor Belanov joined the ranks of Ukraine's defenders in the war against Russian invaders.
The famous striker in the past took up arms and is in the territorial defense of Odessa. A photo from a trench with a weapon in his hands was published on Belanov's Facebook page..
61-year-old Igor Belanov is the owner of the Golden Ball in 1986 for the best football player in Europe. He is one of three Soviet football players who received this prize.. The owners of the Golden Ball from the USSR were also Lev Yashin (1963) and Oleg Blokhin (1975).
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Earlier it was reported that the Shakhtar football player switched to Ukrainian with the start of the war against Russia.