- 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.
- In 1997 a statue of Lev Yashin was installed at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow and in 1999 another monument.Bulunamadı: never
- Yashin never left the Dinamo goal after that even though he replaced another great goalie, Alexei Homich.
- Lev Yashin Early Life. He was born in Bogorodskoye in the east of Moscow, into a family of industrial workers. It was almost impossible for him to play football.Bulunamadı: before
- The first known photo of Lev Yashin (second from the left). Fisrt time Lev Yashin appeared in the start line-up of Moscow "Dinamo" on July 6, 1950.
- 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: never
- Very often, he was approached for the most varied assistance — both familiar people associated with sports and those whom Yashin had never seen before.