- Lev Yashin, the Black Spider [Best Saves]. Exactly How Good Was Lev Yashin? ... — Lev Yashin, upon receiving the award for best player in 1963.[46][47].
- Very few players in the history of football have made a bigger mark in the history books than Soviet goalkeeper Lev Yashin, who played 326 first team games for...
- After the football ball, learn how to catch the puck was not easy, but in the fall of 1950 Yashin took a place in the main composition of the hockey "Dynamo".
- It is one of the hardest lessons to learn as a goalkeeper, and one that keeps many people from trying the position. Lev Yashin Main Image.
- The poem illustrates how, as well as being a genuinely great goalkeeper, Lev Yashin was practically enmeshed in the Russian national consciousness.
- Lev Yashin. Though the game of football has seen many great goalkeepers over the years, but one name still stands head and shoulders above everyone else.
- Yashin also played goalie for the Dynamo ice hockey team during those early years of trying to break into the senior squad.
- Strangely sufficient, Yashin also played in goal for Dinamo Moscow's ice hockey crew and even won the USSR ice-hockey championship as a goalkeeper.