- 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.
- Greatest goalkeepers of all time in football. For decades, the world has seen many gifted goalkeepers, but only a few have achieved exceptional career success.
- Lev Yashin– Soviet Union (1954-1970) there have been few challengers to his status as the greatest of all goalkeepers, Yashin was consistent- brave, an athlete...
- In 1994 FIFA established the Yashin Award for the Best Goalkeeper, which is given to the best goalkeeper of the World Cup Finals.
- 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.
- 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.
- Late Lev Yashin. ... In 1994, he was chosen for the FIFA World Cup All-Time Team, and in 1998 was chosen as a member of the World Team of the 20th Century.
- 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.
- 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.