- 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”.Bulunamadı: left
- Yashin was born in Moscow, in a Russian family of industrial workers. When he was 12, World War II forced him to work in a factory to support the Soviet war effort.
- The first known photo of Lev Yashin (second from the left). Fisrt time Lev Yashin appeared in the start line-up of Moscow "Dinamo" on July 6, 1950.
- In 1997 a statue of Lev Yashin was installed at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow and in 1999 another monument.Bulunamadı: never
- 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...Bulunamadı: left
- 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.
- Yashin was picked in World Soccer’s greatest team of all time, FIFA’s all-time World Cup team and in 1999 he was voted as Russian athlete of the 20th century.Bulunamadı: left