- Widely regarded as the best ever goalkeeper Lev Ivanovich Yashin was born in Moscow in 1929. Variously nicknamed the Black Spider...
- 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. Though the game of football has seen many great goalkeepers over the years, but one name still stands head and shoulders above everyone else.
- 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.
- 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".
- Eighty years ago was born the best goalkeeper of all times and peoples Lev Yashin. Almost all of Russia's newspapers remember the great sportsman.
- Yashin also played goalie for the Dynamo ice hockey team during those early years of trying to break into the senior squad.
- Football player Lev Yashin is a famous Soviet athlete, who was one of the few list of the best goalkeepers of the twentieth century.
- In 1954, Lev Yashin finally got in touch and was called up to the National Team, having played 78 matches for his country.