• Lev Yashin was born in Moscow, in 1929. His parents worked long hours. ... Soon he was noticed by football coaches and invited to the Dynamo team.
  • Lev Yashin never left Moscow before he joined the Dynamo team.
  • After retiring from playing, Yashin spent almost 20 years in various administrative positions at Dynamo Moscow. A bronze statue of Lev Yashin was erected at the...
  • Biding his time with his football career, Yashin finally managed to oust Khomich from the Dynamo starting eleven when the latter was injured in 1953.
  • However, Yashin liked football much more, and having received a place in Dynamo's starting line-up at 1953, Lev Ivanovich left hockey forever.
  • In 1950, Lev Yashin joined a big football team called theDynamo Moscow”. Yashin performed most of his professional football career in that team.
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  • Not only Russia – the world remembers Yashin as well. He’s still included in all-star teams (FIFA 2018, for instance, has Yashin in its FUT ICONS team).
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  • Yashin played his entire career between the posts for Dynamo Moscow, winning 5 Soviet Top League titles and 3 Soviet Cups. Because he dressed…
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  • Joining Dynamo Moscow. At the age of 16, Yashin joined the youth team of Dynamo Moscow, one of the top clubs in Russia at the time.
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  • In order not to get out of shape, Yashin went on to play with the Dynamo hockey team, with which he won the Soviet Union Cup and finished third in the league.
  • 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.
  • Lev Yashin’s life was defined by three things. One was the special existence of a goalkeeper, always on the edge of triumph or disaster.
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  • There appears to be a consensus amongst experts on the game that Lev Yashin ( Dynamo Moscow & CCCP) was the greatest goalkeeper of all time.
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  • 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.