- 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.
- 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".
- 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.
- However, he is far from the greatest вратарь (goalkeeper) in football history. That honour goes to Lev Yashin, the Black Spider.
- In addition to football and hockey, Lev Yashin also played many other sports such as fencing, basketball, boxing, tennis and water polo.
- 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 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 Yashin was born in Moscow into a family of workers. Yashin had a difficult childhood. His family was rather poor and had to share a tiny flat with other relatives.
- “I was in disbelief that I’d scored past the great Lev Yashin,” he recalled years later. “I still am. I was overcome with excitement that all I wanted to do was hug him.Bulunamadı: very