Lev Yashin

The Black Spider who revolutionised goalkeeping.

The Soviet professional footballer Lev Ivanovich Yashin, born 22 October 1929, played as a goalkeeper.^[1]

Quick Facts

Full name: Lev Ivanovich Yashin
Born: 22 October 1929
Birthplace: Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died: 20 March 1990
Height: 1.89 m / 6 ft 2 in
Position: Goalkeeper

Life and work

He stopped playing ice hockey in 1954 to concentrate on football.^[2] Yashin died in 1990 of stomach cancer.^[3] After experiencing a nervous breakdown at age 18, Yashin was assigned to a military factory in Moscow.^[4] Yashin's entire professional football tenure was with Dynamo Moscow, lasting from 1950 through 1970.^[5]

What the cited sources add

The BBC account states Yashin is on the 2018 FIFA World Cup poster.^[6] A tribute article notes Yashin's debut match was a friendly where he conceded a soft goal scored by the opposing goalkeeper.^[7] The same source reports Yashin was called up to the USSR squad in 1954 and soon became the country's number one.^[7] The BBC article describes Yashin's unorthodox pre-match ritual of a strong drink and cigarette.^[8]

The tribute article mentions Yashin helped Dynamo ice hockey team win the USSR Ice Hockey Cup in 1953.^[7] The tribute article states the World Cup Best Goalkeeper award is now known as the Lev Yashin award.^[7]

References

Wikipedia, "Lev Yashin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Yashin, Lev Ivanovich."; "Lev Yashin: Bullet-maker to Ballon d'Or - the man who reinvented goalkeeping", BBC Sport, 2018-06-08; ""Yashin, the impregnable Spider"."; "Casillas names his top ten No1s", UEFA.org, 5 February 2010; "Euro 1960: Lev Yashin leads Soviets to glory in France". BBC. Retrieved 21 May 2014; "The path of the 'Panther'", BBC News, 9 April 2002 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Lev Yashin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: “Bullet maker to Ballon d'Or: The man who reinvented goalkeeping”. BBC. Retrieved 7 June 2018; “Bullet maker to Ballon d'Or: The man who reinvented goalkeeping”. BBC. Retrieved 7 June 2018 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Lev Yashin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Greaves, Jimmy (2008). Football's Great Heroes and Entertainers. Hachette UK. p. 1949. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Lev Yashin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: “Bullet maker to Ballon d'Or: The man who reinvented goalkeeping”. BBC. Retrieved 7 June 2018; Storey, "Portrait of an icon: Lev Yashin", 28 September 2016 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, "Lev Yashin" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Lev Ivanovich Yashin", Britannica (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
“Bullet maker to Ballon d'Or: The man who reinvented goalkeeping”. BBC. Retrieved 7 June 2018. facts only, no text reused. bbc.co.uk
"A tribute to Lev Yashin", 21 March 2018. facts only, no text reused. bleacherreport.com
"The path of the 'Panther'", BBC News, 9 April 2002. facts only, no text reused. news.bbc.co.uk

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