• 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.
  • 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.
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  • Lev Yashin was a Soviet football player. Competing for Moscow's Dynamo club and the Soviet Union national football team, he went down in the history of the...
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  • The only goalkeeper to win the Ballon d’Or, Yashin was a one-club man for Dynamo Moscow but it was on the international scene that his reputation was made.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Lev Ivanovich Yashin was a Russian football (soccer) player considered by many to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game.
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  • Club Career: Lev Yashin spent his entire club career at Dynamo Moscow, who spotted him as a youth during World War Two while he worked in a military factory.
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  • The only goalkeeper to be awarded the Golden Ball, a coveted player in any team, even in Real Madrid, he played only for Dynamo Moscow. After Yashin left the...
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