- Lev Yashin, famous for always wearing all-black when playing, is arguably the greatest goalkeeper the world has ever seen.
- 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.
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- 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.
- When he left the field, he was given a real ovation. ” After playing in the national team of the world, Yashin’s international authority rose to transcendental heights.
- Famed for always wearing a distinctive all-black strip when playing, The late and great Lev Yashin is the best goalkeeper of all time, rivalled only by Gordon Banks.
- Yashin's widow Valentina at the premiere of Svetlana Kharchevina's movie "Lev Yashin No 1," a documentary about the legendary Soviet football goalkeeper.
- Yashin’s memory is notably being maintained in the public perception not least through the material form of two key sculptures erected in Moscow in the late 1990s.
- Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Lev Yashin is widely considered to be one of the greatest football goalkeepers of all time.
- Unfortunately, the same can’t really be said for the iconic Soviet goalkeeper Lev Yashin; at least, not for the first part of his career.