- In a group stage match against the eventual Cup winners Brazil, which the Soviet team lost 2–0, Yashin’s performance prevented the score from becoming a route.
- The house where Lev Yashin spent his childhood. Lev’s parents, Ivan Petrovich and Anna Mitrofanovna Yashin, were simple artisans.
- The all-black kit worn famously by Lev Yashin, quite possibly the finest keeper of all time, made him look terrifying to attackers who knew about his magnificent ability.
- Lev Ivanovich Yashin (1929 – 1990), nicknamed the "Black Spider" or the "Black Panther", was a Soviet professional footballer, considered by many as the greatest...
- Lev Yashin, famous for always wearing all-black when playing, is arguably the greatest goalkeeper the world has ever seen.
- Lev Yashin’s life was defined by three things. One was the special existence of a goalkeeper, always on the edge of triumph or disaster.
- Fortunately, the boy's relationship with his stepmother Alexandra Petrovna was warm. And in 1940, Yashin had a younger brother, Boris.
- 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.