Lev Yashin

Biography

Lev Yashin is Soviet footballer, goalkeeper, who played for Dynamo Moscow and the USSR national team. Olympic champion in 1956 and European champion in 1960, 5-time champion of the USSR, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1957). Hero of Socialist Labor (1990), colonel. Lev Ivanovich Yashin was born in Moscow, in the Bogorodskoye area. In the courtyard of the house, local children, including Lev Yashin, constantly played football, games continued in the spring, summer and autumn, in any weather, in the dark. In these yard games, Yashin received the first goalkeeper experience. The beginning of the Great Patriotic War found the 11-year-old Lyova near Podolsk - with relatives, to whom her pa...