• Discover 18 fascinating facts about the legendary goalkeeper, Lev Yashin. Explore his life, achievements, and impact on the world of football.
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  • Lev Yashin managed to become the Olympic champion and European champion, and also won the USSR championship five times.
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  • Buenos Aires, 1961. Six feet two, a flat cap, head to toe in black, with a Dynamo Moscow pin — Lev Yashin, also known as “The Black Spider”.
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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.
  • Who is Lev Yashin? Born in Moscow in 1929, Yashin worked in a military factory at 18 and while playing for the football team he was scouted by Dynamo Moscow.
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  • Born to a family who worked in industrial settings, aged 12 Yashin left school to help family in the factories, as part of the war effort.
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  • Very often, he was approached for the most varied assistance — both familiar people associated with sports and those whom Yashin had never seen before.
  • A Bronze statue of Lev Yashin was erected at the Dynamo Stadium in Moscow. Lev Yashin died in 1990 of complications caused by an amputation of one of...
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  • From many biographical tapes and sports films the tape “Lev Yashin. The goalkeeper of my dreams ”is distinguished, perhaps, by the lack of pathos.