- 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.
- However, he is far from the greatest вратарь (goalkeeper) in football history. That honour goes to Lev Yashin, the Black Spider.
- 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”.
- Lev Yashin (1929 - 1990), the best goalkeeper of the 20th century, portrayed during a play. Viktor Shandrin/TASS.Bulunamadı: hockey
- There appears to be a consensus amongst experts on the game that Lev Yashin ( Dynamo Moscow & CCCP) was the greatest goalkeeper of all time.Bulunamadı: hockey
- Widely regarded as the best ever goalkeeper Lev Ivanovich Yashin was born in Moscow in 1929. Variously nicknamed the Black Spider...
- In 1963 he was recognized as the best footballer in Europe, Lev Yashin's biography was supplemented with another award - he was awarded the "Golden Ball".
- WHEN the poster for the 2018 World Cup was revealed it showed an image of one of Russia’s greatest ever players, Lev 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.