- 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.
- Post-playing career[edit]. After retiring from playing, Yashin spent almost 20 years in various administrative positions at Dynamo Moscow.
- 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.
- Yashin's contemporary Vsevolod Bobrov is generally considered as one of the best Soviet/Russian players ever both in hockey and in football, as well as bandy.
- Dynamo Moscow, one of the most storied clubs in Soviet football, served as the perfect backdrop for Yashin’s exploits.
- However, Yashin liked football much more, and having received a place in Dynamo's starting line-up at 1953, Lev Ivanovich left hockey forever.
- 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).Bulunamadı: left
- You can list everyone: there were no weak links in that team. But I will name only one more player who appeared in the world team that day: Lev Yashin.
- Yashin also played goalie for Dynamo ice hockey team during his first years trying to make a break into the senior squad of the football team.Bulunamadı: joined
- 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.
- INFO: Lev Yashin was born in Moscow on October 22nd 1929 when Stalin ruled the roost and the country was experiencing unparalleled economic upheavals...Bulunamadı: left
- 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.