- Lev Yashin, the only goalkeeper ever awarded the prize, is an icon of the Soviet Union, the empire that fell in 1991, a year after his death at the age of 60.
- On October 22, 1929 in Moscow, Lev Ivanovich Yashin was born. 12 years later and World War II forced him to go to work in a military factory.
- — Lev Yashin, upon receiving the award for best player in 1963. "Yashin plays football better than me".Bulunamadı: very
- Yashin also played goalie for the Dynamo ice hockey team during those early years of trying to break into the senior squad.
- Strangely sufficient, Yashin also played in goal for Dinamo Moscow's ice hockey crew and even won the USSR ice-hockey championship as a goalkeeper.
- Lev Ivanovich Yashin was a Russian football (soccer) player considered by many to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game.Bulunamadı: very
- After the football ball, learn how to catch the puck was not easy, but in the fall of 1950 Yashin took a place in the main composition of the hockey "Dynamo".
- It is said that Lev Yashin was very good at blocking even shots coming from blind spots.