- Lev Yashin was born in Moscow, in 1929. His parents worked long hours. ... Soon he was noticed by football coaches and invited to the Dynamo team.
- Lev Yashin never left Moscow before he joined the Dynamo team.
- Post-playing career[edit]. After retiring from playing, Yashin spent almost 20 years in various administrative positions at Dynamo Moscow.
- In order not to get out of shape, Yashin went on to play with the Dynamo hockey team, with which he won the Soviet Union Cup and finished third in the league.
- However, Yashin liked football much more, and having received a place in Dynamo's starting line-up at 1953, Lev Ivanovich left hockey forever.
- Joining Dynamo Moscow. At the age of 16, Yashin joined the youth team of Dynamo Moscow, one of the top clubs in Russia at the time.Bulunamadı: before
- Yashin's contemporary Vsevolod Bobrov is generally considered as one of the best Soviet/Russian players ever both in hockey and in football, as well as bandy.
- Dynamo Moscow, one of the most storied clubs in Soviet football, served as the perfect backdrop for Yashin’s exploits.
- Yashin also played goalie for Dynamo ice hockey team during his first years trying to make a break into the senior squad of the football team.Bulunamadı: joined
- During this time of absence from the Dynamo squad, Yashin would take up bandy, an 11-a-side version of Ice Hockey played with a Ball.
- You can list everyone: there were no weak links in that team. But I will name only one more player who appeared in the world team that day: Lev Yashin.
- 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: joined
- 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.