- Lev Yashin was the famous Soviet football player, European and Olympic Champion. By the way, he was the best goalkeeper of the XX century. Yashin had played.
- In the early 1950s, he was a candidate for the national hockey team but decided to focus on football.Bulunamadı: well
- Lev Ivanovich Yashin was born in 1929 and due to his height was called ‘Eiffel Tower’ by classmates when he first went to school, aged seven.
- In 1963 he was recognized as the best footballer in Europe, Lev Yashin's biography was supplemented with another award - he was awarded the "Golden Ball".
- Lev Yashin (center) plays hockey with famous Soviet footballers Gennadi Gusarov and Viktor Anichkin. Photo from the family archive.
- To football fans of a certain age, Lev Yashin was a Russian superstar and probably, for many, the greatest goalkeeper of all time.Bulunamadı: very
- The goalkeeper Lev Yashin. Few people know that Yashin used to play soccer and hockey simultaneously, and he was good at the latter sports as well.
- One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City." ... — Lev Yashin, upon receiving the award for best player in 1963.[46][47].
- In fact, along with being a talented football player, Lev Yashin played hockey at a very high level. In the early 1950s, he was a candidate for the national hockey...
- “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
- Over the course of his illustrious career, he had appeared in four World Cups. Yashin was very well known for his positioning, stature, and acrobatic reflex saves.
- 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.