• There is not a football player or a football fan who does not know this name. Lev Yashin was born in Moscow, in 1929. His parents worked long hours.
  • Lev Yashin never left Moscow before he joined the Dynamo team.
  • Yashin was born in Moscow, in a Russian family of industrial workers. When he was 12, World War II forced him to work in a factory to support the Soviet war effort.
  • Lev was born in Moscow 1929, to two industrial workers Ivan Yashin and Anna Yashina. His childhood would be fraught with difficulty, born into poverty, and losing...
  • “The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save” – Lev Yashin.
  • Russia Beyond looks back at one of the world’s finest keepers Lev Yashin (1929 – 1990). 1. The most celebrated goalkeeper in footballing history.
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  • Very often, he was approached for the most varied assistance — both familiar people associated with sports and those whom Yashin had never seen before.
  • 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.
  • Lev Yashin was born in Moscow on October 22nd 1929 when Stalin ruled the roost and the country was experiencing unparalleled economic upheavals, young...
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  • The first known photo of Lev Yashin (second from the left). Fisrt time Lev Yashin appeared in the start line-up of Moscow "Dinamo" on July 6, 1950.
  • Lev Ivanovich Yashin (October 22, 1929 - March 20, 1990) was a Russian goalkeeper regarded by many as the best goalkeeper in the history of football.
  • 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.
  • Yashin never left the Dinamo goal after that even though he replaced another great goalie, Alexei Homich.
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