Lev Yashin

Lev Yashin is a legendary Soviet football goalkeeper who played for Dynamo Moscow and the USSR national team. He was the first Soviet player to receive the most prestigious Golden Ball award, and is still the only goalkeeper to receive this honorable sports award.

Lev Ivanovich was born in the Bogorodsky district of Moscow. Father Ivan Petrovich worked as a locksmith at a factory, and mother Alexandra Petrovna was also a foreman. The boy received his first football lessons in the courtyard of his home. When Leo was 11 years old, the Great Patriotic War began.

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Together with his family, he was evacuated to Ulyanovsk and went to help the elders as a loader. Soon, the teenager qualified as a locksmith and began to manufacture military equipment.

After the war, the Yashins returned to Moscow, Lev continued to work at the plant, and in the evenings he played for the amateur team "Red October" from Tushino. Professional coaches drew attention to the young man when he served in the army. Yashin chose the Moscow club "Dynamo" and became the goalkeeper of the youth team.

He soon became the third after the famous goalkeepers Alexei Khomich and Walter Sanay in the main team. Since then, Lev Yashin has played only for Dynamo, having spent 22 seasons in the shirt of this club, which is considered a unique achievement. Yashin became so attached to this team that even in the matches for the national team he came out with the letter "D" on his chest.

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Few people know that at first Lev Yashin played both football and hockey at the same time, and in the game with the puck he also showed good results. For example, in 1953 he became the champion of the USSR and even was a candidate for the national team, but by that time he had decided to focus exclusively on football.

The goalkeeper began to use innovative methods of playing in the penalty area, using not only his hands, as was customary among the goalkeepers of the time, but also played with his feet. The coaches of Dynamo and the USSR national team often had to listen to dissatisfied statements from the Ministry of Sports, whose leaders did not understand why Yashin did not play "the old fashioned way", and called his manner "circus".

The next innovation introduced by the Dynamo goalkeeper was hitting the ball instead of the obligatory fixation. It was a natural breakthrough in football, because a heavily launched "shell" is difficult to catch tightly. And Yashin began to beat him to the side or transferred over the crossbar to the "corner". Lev Ivanovich was tall (189 cm), besides, jumping ability and long arms helped him in the game, which can be seen today in many photos of that time.

In the world, the Soviet goalkeeper was called the Black Panther for his flexibility, and the Black Spider for his instant movement along the goal frame. The color of these nicknames was because of the black goalkeeper jersey, which Yashin always wore. Thanks to the goalkeeper, Dynamo Moscow became the national champion 5 times, won the cup three times and took prizes many times.

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In 1960, Lev Yashin, together with the Soviet Union national team, won the European Championship, and before that he won the Olympic Games. But there were also failures in the career of a football player.

In 1962, the USSR national team was defeated at the World Championships in Chile. The goalkeeper was blamed. The head coach of the national team was also replaced: together with Nikolai Gulyaev, Konstantin Beskov became him. It seemed that Lev Ivanovich's stay in the team had been given up. But a year later, Yashin regained his former glory, becoming the best football player in Europe according to a poll by France Football.

For goalkeepers, Lev Yashin remains the same unique example as for field players Pele, with whom the Soviet footballer, by the way, was friends. The Brazilian himself noted that he felt like a real striker only after he scored the ball into the goal of the Soviet goalkeeper in 1965. Although before that, Pele had already twice become world champion.

The goalkeeper's accomplishments include the fact that he played 100 games without conceding a single goal. Total clean sheets during his career were 207 out of 438 played. Interestingly, the goalkeeper was short-sighted, so it was not easy for Yashin to follow the ball. Sometimes he asked the team players to let the enemy get closer to the goal in order to correctly assess the situation.

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The player played his last match on May 27, 1971. It was a farewell duel between the Dynamo team from different cities and the team of world stars. Englishman Bobby Charlton, German Gerd Müller, Portuguese Eusebio and other high-class footballers of that time came to Moscow.

At the end of his career, Lev Yashin became a coach, but in this field he did not achieve much. He worked with children and youth.

According to international media and football federations, Lev Yashin is considered the best goalkeeper of the 20th century, and is also included in the list of the greatest football players in the history of sports No. 1.

Lev Ivanovich Yashin was married for many years. His personal life has developed happily in his youth. The wife of footballer Valentin Yashin gave the hope of Soviet sports two daughters, Irina and Elena.

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The Yashins' grandson, whose name is Vasily Frolov, was also the goalkeeper of Dynamo Moscow, like his grandfather. And then he played for the St. Petersburg teams Dynamo and Zelenograd.

Lev Yashin loved fishing and could spend many hours sitting at a fishing rod, contemplating the water surface in calmness and silence.

Retirement from sports negatively affected Yashin's health. The athlete's body, accustomed to exertion, began to fail when the training stopped. Lev Ivanovich survived heart attacks, stroke, oncology and even leg amputation.

Most of his illnesses were also associated with addiction to smoking. While still an athlete, Yashin could not give up his addiction. Cigarettes often gave him stomach ulcers and took baking soda all the time to soothe the pain.

On March 18, 1990, the footballer received the title of Hero of Socialist Labor, but lived with him for only 2 days. On March 20, Lev Ivanovich Yashin died. The cause of death of the goalkeeper was complications associated with smoking, as well as a relapsed gangrene of the leg.

In memory of the famous player, many streets and a number of stadiums were named, monuments and monuments were erected, and the International Football Federation founded the Yashin Prize, which is awarded to the best goalkeeper of the final stage of the World Cup.

The name of Lev Ivanovich began to perpetuate not only after death. Even when he was a player, such poets as Vladimir Vysotsky, Robert Rozhdestvensky, Evgeny Yevtushenko and others dedicated their lines to the goalkeeper. Yashin also appears in the popular "chants" of Dynamo fans.

The image of the goalkeeper first appeared in cinema in the year of the 90th anniversary of his birth. The film “Lev Yashin. The goalkeeper of my dreams. " The main character of the biopic was played by 3 actors: Elisey Tarasenko in childhood, Alexander Fokin in his youth and Alexander Ermakov in adulthood. The first screening of the film took place in cinemas in Russia on November 28, 2019.

1953, 1967, 1970 - USSR Cup winner with Dynamo 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1963 - USSR champion with Dynamo 1956 - Olympic champion with the USSR national team 1960 - European Cup winner with the USSR national team 1960, 1963, 1966 - "Goalkeeper of the Year" 1963 - winner of the "Golden Ball" as the best football player in Europe according to France Football 1964 - silver medalist of the European Cup in the USSR national team

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