Known as the “Black Spider” or simply “The Man in Black”, Lev Yashin has a good claim to be considered the greatest goalkeeper the world has ever seen. Sent to work in a munitions factory at the age of 12 he was discovered by Dynamo Moscow playing in goal for the factory team. He joined Dynamo in 1949 but did not establish himself in the first team until 1953 and for a while he was more successful playing in goal for Dynamo’s hockey section.
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- 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. 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.
- 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.
- Lev Yashin Image source, Getty Images. The greatest goalkeeper of them all, Lev Yashin revolutionised his position and became a hero of the Soviet Union.
- 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.
- 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.
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