Lev Yashin
Association football player from the USSR
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]
 Yashin in 1965 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Lev Ivanovich Yashin | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 22 October 1929 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 20 March 1990 (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
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Career statistics change
Club change
| Club | Season | League | Soviet Cup | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Dynamo Moscow | 1950 | Top League | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| 1951 | — | — | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 1952 | — | — | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 1953 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 18 | 0 | |||
| 1954 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 0 | |||
| 1955 | 22 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 26 | 0 | |||
| 1956 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | |||
| 1957 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | |||
| 1958 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||
| 1959 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | |||
| 1960 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 0 | |||
| 1961 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 21 | 0 | |||
| 1962 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | |||
| 1963 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 0 | |||
| 1964 | 28 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 31 | 0 | |||
| 1965 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | |||
| 1966 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |||
| 1967 | 20 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 26 | 0 | |||
| 1968 | 17 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 0 | |||
| 1969 | 22 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 0 | |||
| 1970 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 16 | 0 | |||
| Career total | 326 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 358 | 0 | |||
International change
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Soviet Union | 1954 | 2 | 0 |
| 1955 | 4 | 0 | |
| 1956 | 10 | 0 | |
| 1957 | 5 | 0 | |
| 1958 | 6 | 0 | |
| 1959 | 2 | 0 | |
| 1960 | 5 | 0 | |
| 1961 | 5 | 0 | |
| 1962 | 7 | 0 | |
| 1963 | 4 | 0 | |
| 1964 | 7 | 0 | |
| 1965 | 5 | 0 | |
| 1966 | 7 | 0 | |
| 1967 | 5 | 0 | |
| Total | 74 | 0 | |
Other statistics change
- 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 change
Football change
Dynamo Moscow
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]
- World Hall of Fame of Soccer[25]
- FIFA Goalkeeper of the 20th Century[12]
- FIFA World Cup Dream Team
- Golden Player of Russia
- World Soccer Greatest XI of all time[26]
- World Sports dream team of the past 20 years: 1970[27]
- IFFHS Legends[28]
- IFFHS World Goalkeeper of the Century[29]
- IFFHS European Goalkeeper of the Century[29]
- Ballon d'Or Dream Team[30]
- IFFHS All-time Men's Dream Team[31]
- IFFHS All-time Europe Men's Dream Team[32]
Ice hockey change
Dynamo Moscow
- Soviet Cup: 1953
References change
- ↑ "Лев Иванович Яшин" (in Russian). academydinamo.ru. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
- ↑ "Lev Ivanovich Yashin | Soviet athlete | Britannica".
- ↑ Лев Яшин. russiateam.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 24 August 2011. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
- ↑ "Yashin, Lev Ivanovich.". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 25 June 2008.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Lev YASHIN". russiateam.ru. Archived from the original on 5 July 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
- ↑ Jennings, Patrick. "Yashin". BBC News. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Yashin, Lev". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmerman.
- ↑ ""Не Команда Украсила Место, А Место - Команду"".
- ↑ "European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or")". RSSSF. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ↑ "1960 team of the tournament". Union of European Football Associations. 1 February 2011. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
- ↑ "1964 team of the tournament". Union of European Football Associations. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lev Yashin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 "ERIC BATTY’S WORLD XI – THE SIXTIES" Retrieved on 29 November 2015
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 FIFA XI´s Matches – Full Info
- ↑ "Matches of Supranational Representative Teams 1937-1970". RSSSF. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ↑ "Matches of Supranational Representative Teams 1937-1970". RSSSF. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ↑ "Matches of Supranational Representative Teams 1937-1970". RSSSF. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ↑ "European football Oscar 1964". BigSoccer Forum. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
- ↑ "Revista do Esporte (RJ) - 1959 a 1970 - DocReader Web". memoria.bn.br. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
- ↑ "Ballon d'Or awards revisited by BigSoccer users". BigSoccer Forum. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 21.3 21.4 "World All-Time Teams". RSSSF. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 22.5 "The Best x Players of the Century/All-Time". RSSSF. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ↑ "Venerdì's All-Time Top-100 (100 Magnifici)". RSSSF. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ↑ "Os 100 Craques das Copas (Placar Magazine)". RSSSF. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ↑ "Hall of Fame of Soccer Mexico and World". RSSSF. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ↑ "The Greatest: – how the panel voted". World Soccer. 23 June 2018.
- ↑ "Old great players lists (esp. 1950s - 1970s) ?". BigSoccer Forum. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
- ↑ "IFFHS announce the 48 football legend players". IFFHS. 25 January 2016. Archived from the original on 24 September 2019. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 "IFFHS' Century Elections". RSSSF. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ↑ Crépin, Timothé (14 December 2020). "Ballon d'Or Dream Team : Découvrez les révélations de ce onze de légende !". France Football (in French). Retrieved 14 December 2020.
- ↑ "IFFHS ALL TIME WORLD MEN'S DREAM TEAM". IFFHS. 22 May 2021.
- ↑ "IFFHS". IFFHS. 29 May 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
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