• But Yashin's success was far from instantaneous and he struggled to break into the first team, choosing instead to play in goal for ice hockey team HC Dynamo...
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  • Strangely sufficient, Yashin also played in goal for Dinamo Moscow's ice hockey crew and even won the USSR ice-hockey championship as a goalkeeper.
  • “I was in disbelief that I’d scored past the great Lev Yashin,” he recalled years later. “I still am. I was overcome with excitement that all I wanted to do was hug him.
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  • Yashin also played goalie for the Dynamo ice hockey team during those early years of trying to break into the senior squad.
  • Lev Yashin was born in a working class family in Moscow. During World War 2, Lev Yashin was asked to go work in a factory to help the war effort.
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  • Later on, during his army service, Lev Yashin was noticed by Arkadi Chernyshev, the well-known coach, who invited him to join the "Dynamo" hockey team...
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  • The poem illustrates how, as well as being a genuinely great goalkeeper, Lev Yashin was practically enmeshed in the Russian national consciousness.
  • Yashin likewise played goalie for the Dynamo ice hockey group amid those early long periods of endeavoring to break into the senior squad.
  • Before Yashin, the goalkeeper played a largely passive role, reacting to situations as required but rarely being proactive and certainly not vocal.
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