- Yashin also played goalie for Dynamo ice hockey team during his first years trying to make a break into the senior squad of the football team.
- Widely regarded as the best ever goalkeeper Lev Ivanovich Yashin was born in Moscow in 1929. Variously nicknamed the Black Spider, Black Octopus or Black...
- 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, 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 (1929 - 1990), the best goalkeeper of the 20th century, portrayed during a play. Viktor Shandrin/TASS. Follow Russia Beyond on Instagram.Bulunamadı: hockey
- 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.
- — Lev Yashin, upon receiving the award for best player in 1963. “Yashin plays football better than me”.
- Lev Yashin (center) plays hockey with famous Soviet footballers Gennadi Gusarov and Viktor Anichkin. Photo from the family archive.
- In 1967 he was given the Order of Lenin, the highest award in the USSR, and in 1994 Fifa established the Lev Yashin Award for the best keeper at the World Cup.