- 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...
- He is remembered as a brilliant goalkeeper and a true sportsman. FIFA established Lev Yashin Award for the best goalkeeper of the World Cup finals.
- 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.
- From its origin to its evolution over time, including its influence on people's daily lives, Lev Yashin has become a topic that we cannot ignore.
- In winter they played hockey and Lev was good at both games. ... In fact, being a talented football player, Lev Yashin played hockey very well.
- The poem illustrates how, as well as being a genuinely great goalkeeper, Lev Yashin was practically enmeshed in the Russian national consciousness.
- 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 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".