• 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 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.
  • 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.
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  • Lev Ivanovich Yashin was a Russian football (soccer) player considered by many to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game.
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  • On domestic soil, Yashin continued to collect titles with his only club, Dynamo Moscow, while still attracting his fair share of international attention.
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  • A bronze statue of Lev Yashin was erected at the Dynamo Stadium in Moscow. In 1986, following a thrombophlebitis contracted while he was in Budapest, Yashin...
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  • ...«Golden Ball», 11 times the best goalkeeper of the USSR, one of the greatest players in the history of the Football Club «Dynamo» Moscow - Lev Yashin.
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  • Together with the Soviet international football team, Yashin won the first-ever European championship in 1960 that was hosted by France.
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  • 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.
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