- 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.
- Lev Ivanovich Yashin (October 22, 1929 - March 20, 1990) was a Russian goalkeeper regarded by many as the best goalkeeper in the history of football.
- Lev Yashin Image source, Getty Images. The greatest goalkeeper of them all, Lev Yashin revolutionised his position and became a hero of the Soviet Union.
- In the early 1990’s FIFA named Soviet soccer player Lev Yashin as one of the best soccer players of the 20th century, and even today he is considered to be...Bulunamadı: hockey
- 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.
- 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
- He is remembered as a brilliant goalkeeper and a true sportsman. FIFA established Lev Yashin Award for the best goalkeeper of the World Cup finals.
- 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.