Lev Yashin

Lev Yashin

Yashin in 1965
Personal information
Full name	Lev Ivanovich Yashin
Date of birth	(1929-10-22)22 October 1929
Place of birth	Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Date of death	20 March 1990(1990-03-20) (aged 60)
Place of death	Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
1948–1950	Dynamo Moscow
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1950–1970	Dynamo Moscow	326	(0)
National team
1956	Soviet Union Olympic	6	(0)
1954–1970	Soviet Union	74	(0)
Honours Representing  Soviet Union Olympic Games 1956 Melbourne UEFA European Championship Winner 1960 France Runner-up 1964 Spain
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Lev Yashin (22 October 1929 – 20 March 1990) was a former Russian football player. He had played for Dynamo Moscow and Soviet Union national team. He is regarded as one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time, while some even considering him to be the greatest.^[2]

Career statistics

Club

International

Other statistics

• 812 career games played^[3]
• estimated to have made over 150 penalty saves during his career^[4][5][6]
• 326 games played for Dynamo Moscow main line-up (football team)^[7]
• 74 caps for the USSR national team (70 goals conceded)^[7]
• 12 caps at the World Cup (4 clean sheets)
• 2 FIFA 'Best of the World XI' appearances (in 1963 vs England, in 1968 vs Brazil)
• 270 career clean sheets^[5]

Honours

Football

Dynamo Moscow

• Soviet Top League: 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1963
• Soviet Cup: 1953, 1966–67, 1970; runner-up: 1955

Soviet Union

• UEFA European Football Championship: 1960; runner-up: 1964
• Olympic Games Gold Medal: 1956
• FIFA World Cup Fourth place: 1966^[8]

Individual

• European Goalkeeper of the Year: 1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966^[9]
• UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament: 1960,^[10] 1964^[11]
• USSR Goalkeeper of the year: 1960, 1963, 1966
• Ballon d'Or: 1963^[12]
• World Soccer World XI: 1963,^[13] 1964,^[13] 1966,^[13] 1967^[13]
• FIFA XI: 1963,^[14] 1968^[14]
• Europe XI: 1964,^[15] 1964,^[16] 1965^[17]
• European football Oscars: 1963-64^[18]
• World XI selected by italian press. 1960,^[19] 1961^[20]
• Order of Lenin
• Silver Olympic Order^[12]
• FIFA Order of Merit
• Placar's All-Time Team^[21]
• Placar's 100 Stars of the Century: #11^[22]
• FIFA World Cup All-Time Team
• Planète Foot's All-Time Team^[21]
• France Football's Football Player of the Century: #10^[22]
• Planète Foot's 50 Best Players of all Time^[22]
• Venerdì's All-Time Team^[21]
• Venerdì's 100 Magnificent^[23]
• World Soccer's 100 Greatest Footballers of All Time: #11^[22]
• World Team of the 20th Century
• Voetbol International's Team of the Century^[22]
• Voetbol International's World Stars by Raf Willems^[22]
• Jornal A Tarde All-Time Team^[21]
• Placar's 100 Stars of the World Cup: #23^[24]
• O Estado de São Paulo All-Time Team^[21]
• Berlin-Britz Team of the Decade (1960s)^[25][26]
• World Hall of Fame of Soccer^[27]
• FIFA Goalkeeper of the 20th Century^[12]
• FIFA World Cup Dream Team
• Golden Player of Russia
• World Soccer Greatest XI of all time^[28]
• World Sports dream team of the past 20 years: 1970^[29]
• IFFHS Legends^[30]
• IFFHS World Goalkeeper of the Century^[31]
• IFFHS European Goalkeeper of the Century^[31]
• Ballon d'Or Dream Team^[32]
• IFFHS All-time Men's Dream Team^[33]
• IFFHS All-time Europe Men's Dream Team^[34]

Ice hockey

Dynamo Moscow

• Soviet Cup: 1953

References

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