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- Lev Ivanovich Yashin (Russian: Лев Иванович Яшин; 22 October 1929 – 20 March 1990) was a Soviet professional footballer considered by many to have been the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game. [ 2 ]
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Lev Ivanovich Yashin (Russian: Лев Иванович Яшин; 22 October 1929 – 20 March 1990) was a Soviet professional footballer considered by many to have been the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game. [2]
Lev Ivanovich Yashin was a Russian football (soccer) player considered by many to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game. In 1963 he was named European Footballer of the Year, the only time a keeper has won the award. In 1945 Yashin joined Moscow’s Dynamo club as an ice hockey.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jun 8, 2018 · 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.
- The most celebrated goalkeeper in footballing history. In football usually strikers and midfielders win the most plaudits but Yashin broke the pattern.
- A working class hero. Yashin had to earn it the hard way. Born into a family of a Moscow locksmith in 1929, the future legend was 11 when the war with Germany began – he worked unloading trains in Ulyanovsk (876 km east of Moscow) and then followed in his father’s footsteps as a locksmith.
- Extremely loyal. Nevertheless, Yashin never envied footballers playing from rich Western clubs, saying: “I couldn’t imagine living anywhere outside Russia.”
- He changed the game dramatically. Yashin was an innovator – he was one of the first “sweeper” goalkeepers. Nowadays, it’s normal – many goalkeepers, including Germany’s brilliant Manuel Neuer, play this way.
Jun 7, 2018 · The greatest goalkeeper of them all, Lev Yashin revolutionised his position and became a hero of the Soviet Union. BBC Sport tells the remarkable story of a man who went from making bullets in a...
We are, of course, talking about Lev Ivanovich Yashin, one of the most beloved football figures in the USSR. Thanks to his trademark all-black uniform, Yashin was known by many different nicknames, such as the Black Spider, Black Octopus, and Black Panther. The goalkeeper at training in 1960.
Known as the “Black Spider” or simply “The Man in Black”, Lev Yashin has a good claim to be considered the greatest goalkeeper the world has ever seen. Sent to work in a munitions factory at the age of 12 he was discovered by Dynamo Moscow playing in goal for the factory team.
