- 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.
- 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.
- 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".
- Lev Yashin, The 'Black Spider' is for many the best goalkeeper in history. ... The last years of life were very hard for the ‘Black Spider’.
- Lev Yashin (center) plays hockey with famous Soviet footballers Gennadi Gusarov and Viktor Anichkin. Photo from the family archive.
- 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.
- 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.
- In the half century since Lev Yashin was awarded the Golden Ball in European soccer, no goalkeeper has managed to achieve equal greatness.
- Lev Yashin was a friendly and outgoing person, which helped him to become a great team player. At the same time, he was very passionate about his play, pushing...