- There appears to be a consensus amongst experts on the game that Lev Yashin ( Dynamo Moscow & CCCP) was the greatest goalkeeper of all time.
- Very often, he was approached for the most varied assistance — both familiar people associated with sports and those whom Yashin had never seen before.
- 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.
- In 1997 a statue of Lev Yashin was installed at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow and in 1999 another monument.Bulunamadı: never
- Lev Yashin led his last match for Dynamo Moscow on May 27, 1971, at the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium (present-day Luzhniki Stadium) in Moscow.Bulunamadı: never
- The second visit: against Amadeo Carrizo. Five years later, on February 5, 1969, two before he retired, Lev Yashin He returned to Peru.