- 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.
- Anatoliy Korshunov, a former Dynamo Moscow team-mate, remembers Yashin “already felt things were ending”. He had been suffering from stomach cancer.
- Club career. Yashin's Dynamo Moscow jersey (middle), next to Platini’s (left) and Kahn’s (right) in the San Siro museum.
- However, Yashin liked football much more, and having received a place in Dynamo's starting line-up at 1953, Lev Ivanovich left hockey forever.
- He was voted the best goalkeeper of the 20th century by the IFFHS. Yashin’s debut for Dynamo Moscow came in 1950 in a friendly match.Bulunamadı: before
- But alongside the legendary forward was another man who earned revered status as part of the same generation – the late, great Lev Yashin.