- ...session’- Lev Yashin’s widow on her husband’s peerless career Sport, however, was to be a vital outlet and would open up new opportunities for the young Yashin.
- Such was his renown, Yashin gives his name to the title annually bestowed on the world’s best goalkeeper by the respected France Football magazine.
- Yashin's widow Valentina at the premiere of Svetlana Kharchevina's movie "Lev Yashin No 1," a documentary about the legendary Soviet football goalkeeper.
- 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.
- In 1994 FIFA established the Yashin Award for the Best Goalkeeper, which is given to the best goalkeeper of the World Cup Finals.
- 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.
- The highest-performing goalkeepers can end up being titans of the game, and in this article, we'll be taking you through some of the very best. ... Lev Yashin.
- 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.
- 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.
- Yashin recalled; “I’ll never forget the time in 1945 when I crouched over the radio listening to the commentary of the match between Dynamo and Chelsea.