Biography
Lev Yashin is the legendary Soviet football goalkeeper, who advocated the Moscow Dynamo and the USSR national team. He was the first Soviet player who received the most prestigious Golden Ball award, and still remains the only goalkeeper who honored this honorary sports premium.Childhood and youth
Lev Ivanovich was born in the Bogorodsky district of Moscow. Ivan Petrovich's father worked as a mechanic at the factory, the master was Mom Alexander Petrovna. The first lessons of football boy received a native home in the yard. When Lev was 11 years old, the Great Patriotic War began.
Together with his family, he was evacuated to Ulyanovsk and went to help senior as a loader. Soon, the teenager was qualified a locksmith and began to make military equipment.
After the war, Yashina returned to Moscow, the lion continued to work at the factory, and in the evenings he played for the amateur team "Red October" from Tushino. Professional coaches paid attention to the young man when he served in the army. Yashin chose the Moscow club "Dynamo" and became a goalkeeper of a youth team.
Football
Soon he became the third after the famous goalkeepers Alexei Khomich and Walter Sanaya in the main part. Since then, Lev Yashin performed only for Dynamo, spending 22 seasons in a T-shirt, which is considered a unique achievement. Yashin was so lucky to this team that even in matches for the national team came out with the letter "D" on the chest.Few people know that at first Lev Yashin also played both in football, and in hockey, and he also showed high results in the game with a puck. For example, in 1953 he became the Champion of the USSR and even was a candidate for the national team, but by this time decided to focus exclusively on football.
The goalkeeper began to apply innovative methods of playing in the penalty area, used not only hands, as was taken from goalkeepers of that time, but also played his feet. Dynamo coaches and the USSR national team had to often listen to unhappy statements from the Ministry of Sports, whose leaders did not understand why Yashin does not play "in the old manner", and called him a "Circus" manner.
The next innovation, which entered Dynamo's goalkeeper, was chopping the ball instead of mandatory fixation. It was a natural breakthrough in football, because a strongly launched "shell" is difficult to catch tightly. And Yashin began to beat him aside or translated through the crossbar on the "corner". Lev Ivanovich was high growth (189 cm), besides, in the game he was helped by jumping and long hands, which today can be seen in many photos of the time.
In the world of Soviet goalkeepers, they called black panther for flexibility, and for instant moves on the frame of the gate - black spider. The color of these nickname was so because of the black goalkeeper T-shirt, which Yashin invariably. Thanks to Gollicaper, Moscow Dynamo became 5 times the champion of the country, the cup has won three times and repeatedly took prizes.
In 1960, Lev Yashin, together with the national team of the Soviet Union, won the European Championship, and before that he won the Olympic Games. But they were in the career of a football player and failures.
In 1962, the USSR national team failed at the World Championships in Chile. The blame was placed on the goalkeeper. The head coach of the national team was also replaced: Konstantin Bezkov became replaced by Nikolai Glyaeva. It seemed that Lev Ivanovich in the team was put in the team. But after a year, Yashin returned his former glory, becoming the best football player in Europe to survey France Football.
For the goalkeepers, Lev Yashin remains as a unique example, as for the field players of the pele, with whom the Soviet football player, by the way, was friends. Brazilz himself noted that he felt like a real striker only after in 1965 he scored the ball into the gate to the Soviet goalkeeper. Although before that, the Pele had already become a world champion twice.
The achievements of the goalkeeper enters the fact that he spent 100 games without missing a single ball. Total dry matches for his career turned out to be 207 of 438 played. Interestingly, the goalkeeper was near, so it was not easy to watch the ball of Yashin. Sometimes he asked the players of the team to let the opponent closer to the gate to properly assess the situation.
The last match player spent on May 27, 1971. It was a farewell duel between Dynamo national team from various cities and world stars. Englishman Bobby Charmletton arrived in Moscow, German Herd Muller, Portuguese Eysebio and other high-class footballers of that time.
Upon completion of the career, Lev Yashin became a coach, but he did not achieve a lot in this field. He worked with children and young people.
According to international media and soccer federations, Lev Yashin is considered the best goalkeeper of the 20th century, and is also included in the list of the greatest football players in the history of sports No. 1.
Personal life
Lev Ivanovich Yashin was married for many years. His personal life has developed happily in his youth. Valentina Yashin's football player gave the hope of Soviet Sports of two daughters, Irina and Elena.
The grandson of Yashina, whose name is Vasily Frolov, was also a goalkeeper of the Moscow Dynamo, like his grandfather. And then played for St. Petersburg teams "Dynamo" and "Zelenograd".
Lev Yashin adored fishing and could spend a lot of hours while sitting at the fishing rod, in peace and silence contemplating water surface.
Death
Care from sports has adversely affected Yashin's health. The body of an athlete, accustomed to the load, began to refuse when training stopped. Lev Ivanovich experienced infarction, stroke, oncology and even the amputation of the leg.Most of his diseases were associated with addiction to smoking. While still athlete, Yashin could not refuse a detrimental habit. Because of cigarettes, he often opened the ulcer of the stomach, and he always took the food soda all the time, which packed pain.
On March 18, 1990, the footballer received the title of Hero of Socialist Labor, but he lived with him only 2 days. On March 20, Lev Ivanovich Yashin died. The cause of the death of the goalkeeper was the complications associated with smoking, as well as the newly started gangrene legs.
Memory
In memory of the famous player, many streets and a number of stadiums are named, monuments and monuments are established, and the international football federation founded the name of Yashin, who is awarded the best goalkeeper of the final stage of the World Cup.
The name of Leo Ivanovich began to perpetuate not only after death. Another poets such as Vladimir Vysotsky, Robert Christmas, Evgeny Evtushenko and others were devoted to his player. Yashin also appears in the popular "crocheters" of Dynamo fans.
The image of the goalkeeper first appeared in the cinema per year of the 90th anniversary of his birth. The biographies of the footballer was devoted to the film "Lev Yashin. Goalkeeper of my dreams. " The main hero of Bayopic played 3 actors: Elisha Tarasenko in childhood, Alexander Fokin in youth and Alexander Ermakov in adulthood. The first showing of the film was held in the Russian cinemas on November 28, 2019.
Achievements
- 1953, 1967, 1970 - Winner of the Cup of the USSR as part of Dynamo
- 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1963 - Champion of the USSR as part of Dynamo
- 1956 - Olympic champion in the USSR national team
- 1960 - European Cup owner in the composition of the USSR national team
- 1960, 1963, 1966 - "Goalkeeper of the Year"
- 1963 - The owner of the Golden Ball as the best football player of Europe according to France Football
- 1964 - Silver Cup of the European Cup in the composition of the USSR national team