- Lev Yashin - Soccer Player (1929-1990) Full name: Lev Ivanovich Yashin Date of birth: 22 October 1929 Place of birth: Moscow, Soviet Union Date of.
- Lev Ivanovich Yashin (Russian: Лев Иванович Яшин) (October 22, 1929 - March 20, 1990) was a Soviet soccer goalkeeper, arguably the best ever in the sport.
- 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.
- It is one of the hardest lessons to learn as a goalkeeper, and one that keeps many people from trying the position. Lev Yashin Main Image.
- Yashin also played goalie for the Dynamo ice hockey team during those early years of trying to break into the senior squad.
- Lev Yashin. Though the game of football has seen many great goalkeepers over the last century, one name still stands head and shoulders above everyone else.
- Strangely sufficient, Yashin also played in goal for Dinamo Moscow's ice hockey crew and even won the USSR ice-hockey championship as a goalkeeper.