SOCCER PLAYER

Igor Belanov

1960 - Today

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Igor Ivanovich Belanov (Russian: И́горь Ива́нович Бела́нов) or Ihor Ivanovych Bielanov (Ukrainian: Ігор Іванович Бєланов; born 25 September 1960) is a Soviet and Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a striker. He made a name for himself at Dynamo Kyiv, winning five major titles as well as the Ballon d'Or in 1986 and became the second Ukrainian national to win the award after Oleh Blokhin (1975). He then spent six years in Germany with Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga and Eintracht Braunschweig in the 2. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Igor Belanov has received more than 607,033 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Igor Belanov is the 547th most popular soccer player (up from 554th in 2019), the 250th most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 278th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Soccer Player.

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  • 610k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 43

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Igor Belanov ranks 547 out of 21,273. Before him are Robert Pires, Ali Sami Yen, Ali Daei, Zé Roberto, Zdeněk Zeman, and Luca Toni. After him are Diego Milito, Eizo Yuguchi, Arturo Vidal, Marcos Alonso, Mário Coluna, and Hisao Kami.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Igor Belanov ranks 75. Before him are Željko Obradović, Fayez al-Sarraj, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Reza Pahlavi, Crown Prince of Iran, Gazebo, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb. After him are Richard Ramirez, Laurent Fignon, Steve Vai, Simonetta Sommaruga, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, and Hiroshi Amano.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Igor Belanov ranks 250 out of 1,365. Before him are Oleksii Reznikov (1966), Petro Doroshenko (1627), Ruslana (1973), Yuri Knorozov (1922), Maurycy Gottlieb (1856), and David Burliuk (1882). After him are Adam Zagajewski (1945), Polina Zhemchuzhina (1897), Ludwik Fleck (1896), Alexander Marinesko (1913), Vasyl Stus (1938), and Lyudmila Rudenko (1904).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Ukraine

Among soccer players born in Ukraine, Igor Belanov ranks 3. Before him are Oleg Blokhin (1952), and Andriy Shevchenko (1976). After him are Géza Kalocsay (1913), Oleh Protasov (1964), Yozhef Sabo (1940), Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (1963), Mykhaylo Fomenko (1948), Kazimierz Górski (1921), Serhiy Rebrov (1974), Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (1979), and Anatoliy Demyanenko (1959).

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