- Yashin likewise played goalie for the Dynamo ice hockey group amid those early long periods of endeavoring to break into the senior squad.
- The poem illustrates how, as well as being a genuinely great goalkeeper, Lev Yashin was practically enmeshed in the Russian national consciousness.
- In the half century since Lev Yashin was awarded the Golden Ball in European soccer, no goalkeeper has managed to achieve equal greatness.
- I didn't realise that he had played ice hockey in his younger days. There would have been good goal-keepers before him but he took the role to a greater level.
- Lev Ivanovich Yashin (Russian: Лев Иванович Яшин) (October 22, 1929 - March 20, 1990) was a Soviet soccer goalkeeper, arguably the best ever in the sport.
- Yashin is a very well known soccer goalkeeper who shaped the name of the understated goalkeeping position. He is arguably the best Goalie in.
- Lev Yashin Image source, Getty Images. The greatest goalkeeper of them all, Lev Yashin revolutionised his position and became a hero of the Soviet Union.
- Lev Ivanovich Yashin (Russian: Лев Иванович Яшин) (October 22, 1929 - March 20, 1990) was a Soviet soccer goalkeeper, arguably the best ever in the sport.