Anatoli Mikhaylovich Ilyin (; 27 June 1931 – 10 February 2016) was a

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Russian

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Honours

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: 1956. *

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winner: 1952, 1953, 1956, 1958, 1962. * Soviet Top League runner-up: 1954, 1955. * Soviet Top League bronze: 1957, 1961. *

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winner: 1958. * Soviet Top League top scorer: 1954 (11 goals), 1958 (20 goals). *

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member.

International career

He earned 31 caps and scored 16 goals for the

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from 1952 to 1959. He earned an Olympic gold medal at the

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, scoring the game-winning goal of the Gold Medal match, and also participated in the

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. Ilyin also scored the first goal in the history of the

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, scoring a goal 4 minutes into a qualifying game against

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1931 births 2016 deaths Footballers from Moscow Russian men's footballers Soviet men's footballers Soviet Union men's international footballers Olympic footballers for the Soviet Union Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Footballers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union 1958 FIFA World Cup players Soviet Top League players FC Spartak Moscow players Olympic medalists in football Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Soviet football managers Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Men's association football forwards 20th-century Russian sportsmen {{Russia-footy-forward-1930s-stub