The 1986 France Football award winner carries that trophy around his country’s soldiers and hospitals: “It’s like giving back what I got, I’m shocked by this war.”
When the Soviet Union still existed (the USSR, and on the shirts there was the words Cccp), a million years ago, he wore his Golden Ball, symbol of the sporting greatness of that boundless country. He passed from one Socialist Republic to another with the golden trophy. Today, that same award, awarded to him by France Football in 1986, it is a source of inspiration for children, wounded soldiers and soldiers at the front. Igor Belanov, or Bjelanov, as they write in Odessa, still wears the suit of Ukraine and always moves accompanied by a heavy blue casket that encloses the precious sphere.
