He earned 31 caps and scored 16 goals for the
Soviet Union from 1952 to 1959. He earned an Olympic gold medal at the
1956 Summer Olympics, scoring the game-winning goal of the Gold Medal match, and also participated in the
1958 FIFA World Cup. Ilyin also scored the first goal in the history of the
UEFA European Championship, scoring a goal 4 minutes into a qualifying game against
Hungary in 1958. ==References==