Lev Yashin

Lev Yashin
	Yashin in 1965
Personal information
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)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
1948–1950	Dynamo Moscow
Senior career*
Years	Team
1950–1970	Dynamo Moscow
National team
1956	Soviet Union Olympic
1954–1970	Soviet Union
Honours
Representing Soviet Union
Olympic Games
UEFA European Championship
	* 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

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club	Season	League			Soviet Cup		Total
Club	Season	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

Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team	Year	Apps
Soviet Union	1954	2
	1955	4
	1956	10
	1957	5
	1958	6
	1959	2
	1960	5
	1961	5
	1962	7
	1963	4
	1964	7
	1965	5
	1966	7
	1967	5
Total		74

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]
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