- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 widow Valentina at the premiere of Svetlana Kharchevina's movie "Lev Yashin No 1," a documentary about the legendary Soviet football goalkeeper.
- 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.
- In March 1950, Yashin's debut was finally happening in the main composition of Dynamo, but the match was unsuccessful for the goalkeeper.
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