- In addition to football and hockey, Lev Yashin also played many other sports such as fencing, basketball, boxing, tennis and water polo.
- 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 Yashin (1929 - 1990), the best goalkeeper of the 20th century, portrayed during a play. Viktor Shandrin/TASS.Bulunamadı: hockey
- Widely regarded as the best ever goalkeeper Lev Ivanovich Yashin was born in Moscow in 1929. Variously nicknamed the Black Spider, Black Octopus or Black...
- In 1967 he was given the Order of Lenin, the highest award in the USSR, and in 1994 Fifa established the Lev Yashin Award for the best keeper at the World Cup.
- In his first few years at Dynamo, Yashin was unable to break into the first team, so he played as a goalkeeper for the club’s ice hockey team instead...Bulunamadı: very
- During this time of absence from the Dynamo squad, Yashin would take up bandy, an 11-a-side version of Ice Hockey played with a Ball.Bulunamadı: very
- As Yashin started to play football, he first played as a striker. During a metal worker apprenticeship, he belonged to the work of self Tushino.Bulunamadı: very
- It will not seem surprising that Yashin also played hockey professionally, if you recall who brought him to Dynamo football.Bulunamadı: very