• 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.
  • Eliteprospects.com hockey player profile of Lev Yashin, 1929-10-22 Moskva, RUS Russia. Most recently in the undefined with Dynamo Moskva.
    Bulunamadı: well, very
  • Lev Yashin (1929 - 1990), the best goalkeeper of the 20th century, portrayed during a play. Viktor Shandrin/TASS.
    Bulunamadı: hockey
  • İlginç bir gerçek, 1953'te bu özel sporda Sovyetler Birliği'nin şampiyonu olması. Yine de Lev Yashin, yalnızca futbola odaklanmaya karar verdi.
    Bulunamadı: hockey, played
  • In addition to football and hockey, Lev Yashin also played many other sports such as fencing, basketball, boxing, tennis and water polo.
  • 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.
  • Football player Lev Yashin is a famous Soviet athlete who was one of the few list of the best goalkeepers of the twentieth century.
  • Yashin also played goalie for the Dynamo ice hockey team during those early years of trying to break into the senior squad.
  • Lev Yashin (center) plays hockey with famous Soviet footballers Gennadi Gusarov and Viktor Anichkin. Photo from the family archive.