- Lev Yashin, the Black Spider [Best Saves]. Exactly How Good Was Lev Yashin? ... — Lev Yashin, upon receiving the award for best player in 1963.[46][47].
- 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.
- Known as the “Black Spider” or simply “The Man in Black”, Lev Yashin has a good claim to be considered the greatest goalkeeper the world has ever seen.Bulunamadı: very
- 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.
- I didn't realise that he had played ice hockey in his younger days. There would have been good goal-keepers before him but he took the role to a greater level.
- In the early 1990’s FIFA named Soviet soccer player Lev Yashin as one of the best soccer players of the 20th century, and even today he is considered to be...Bulunamadı: hockey
- Lev Yashin Image source, Getty Images. The greatest goalkeeper of them all, Lev Yashin revolutionised his position and became a hero of the Soviet Union.
- WHEN the poster for the 2018 World Cup was revealed it showed an image of one of Russia’s greatest ever players, Lev Yashin.
- — Lev Yashin, upon receiving the award for best player in 1963. "Yashin plays football better than me".Bulunamadı: very