• As a goalkeeper, Lev Yashin worked out his own technique which enabled him to control every part of the goal area.
  • After retiring from playing, Yashin spent almost 20 years in various administrative positions at Dynamo Moscow. A bronze statue of Lev Yashin was erected at the...
  • The family went there too to reconstruct the plant. Lev had to take care of his younger brother and work.
  • 3) Lev Yashin had never left Moscow before he joined the Dynamo team.
  • Clad in his iconic all-black attire, Yashin would dominate the penalty area with a blend of athleticism and fearlessness that left strikers bewildered and spectators...
  • Lev came closer and this guy kneeled before him, taking a bottle of moonshine and a pack of sunflower seeds out of his bag: ‘It’s everything we have.
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  • Lev Yashin was known for his unique all-black goalkeeper kit, which earned him the nickname "The Black Spider."
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  • 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.
  • Between 1994 and 2006, the award for the World Cup’s best goalkeeper was called the Lev Yashin Award, and in 1997 Dynamo Moscow raised a statue in his...
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  • After the war, the family moved back to Moscow and the young Lev would also begin to work at a factory, but spent his free time playing football and hockey.
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  • (From left to right) The USSR team members are filmed as they run out onto the pitch before the match: goalkeeper Lev Yashin, Anatoly Banishevski...
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  • The windows of Yashin’s home were smashed, insulting messages were left on his car, threatening letters arrived in the post.
  • In 1997 a statue of Lev Yashin was installed at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow and in 1999 another monument was erected at Central Stadium Dynamo in Moscow...
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