- Yashin never left the Dinamo goal after that even though he replaced another great goalie, Alexei Homich.
- 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 was born in Moscow on the 22 of October 1929, to a family of industrial workers. The family lived at 15 Millionnaya Street.
- But what a legacy this great Russian left behind and in 1994 FIFA introduced the Lev Yashin Award for the best keeper at the World Cup.Bulunamadı: never
- 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...
- 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.
- From many biographical tapes and sports films the tape “Lev Yashin. The goalkeeper of my dreams ”is distinguished, perhaps, by the lack of pathos.
- Lev Yashin is the only GK to win the thing, and he is never mentioned in the Goat debate. ... Dynamo Moscow in 1952-53, when they won the Soviet Cup.