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In 1981-1984, he played for "Chornomorets" from Odesa, which was included in the lists of the best football players of the Ukrainian SSR (1984). As a player of the Odesa team, he began to participate in the matches of the Olympic team of the USSR, playing in two official matches in 1983. At the beginning of 1985, he moved to Kyiv "Dynamo". Successfully played for the first team of the USSR. At the World Cup in Mexico in 1986, Belanov scored 3 goals for Belgium in the round of 16 and became the only Soviet footballer to score three goals in one match of the final stage of the World Cup. The third goal was scored from the penalty spot. Belanov was nicknamed "bullet lightning" for his lightning-quick game at the World Cup and remarkable speed qualities. In the final of the 1988 European Championship, he did not score a penalty in regular time with the score 2:0 in favor of the Dutch - the ball hit the goalkeeper's boots. On April 8, 2017, the first championship of Igor Belanov - "Belanov Football League" started. In April 2022, during the new phase of the Russian-Ukrainian war, he enlisted in the ranks of the territorial defense to protect Ukraine.