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Lev Yashin

1929 - 1990

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Lev Ivanovich Yashin (Russian: Лев Иванович Яшин; 22 October 1929 – 20 March 1990) was a Soviet professional footballer considered by many to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the sport. He was the first and only goalkeeper to win a Ballon d'Or, a feat which no other goalkeeper has been able to accomplish to this day. He was known for his athleticism, positioning, imposing presence in goal, and acrobatic reflex saves. He was also deputy chairman of the Football Federation of the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lev Yashin is the 7th most popular soccer player (down from 5th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Russia (down from 23rd in 2019) and the most popular Russian Soccer Player.

Lev Yashin is most famous for being the goalkeeper for the Soviet Union in the 1960s. He is considered one of the best goalkeepers of all time.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Lev Yashin ranks 7 out of 21,273. Before him are Pelé, Johan Cruyff, Franz Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller, Ferenc Puskás, and Diego Maradona. After him are Alfredo Di Stéfano, Eusébio, Garrincha, Giuseppe Meazza, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, and Zinedine Zidane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Lev Yashin ranks 7. Before him are Martin Luther King Jr., Grace Kelly, Anne Frank, Yasser Arafat, Imelda Marcos, and Audrey Hepburn. After him are Milan Kundera, Ursula K. Le Guin, Bud Spencer, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jürgen Habermas, and Imre Kertész. Among people deceased in 1990, Lev Yashin ranks 2. Before him is Rajneesh. After him are Greta Garbo, Paulette Goddard, Louis Althusser, Sammy Davis Jr., Alberto Moravia, Leonard Bernstein, Yun Posun, Ava Gardner, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and B. F. Skinner.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lev Yashin ranks 24 out of 3,761. Before him are Boris Yeltsin (1931), Alexander Pushkin (1799), Wassily Kandinsky (1866), Ayn Rand (1905), Ivan Pavlov (1849), and Maxim Gorky (1868). After him are Yuri Andropov (1914), Mikhail Bakunin (1814), Alexander II of Russia (1818), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), Isaac Asimov (1920), and Vasily Zaitsev (1915).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Russia

Among soccer players born in Russia, Lev Yashin ranks 1. After him are Rinat Dasayev (1957), Valentin Ivanov (1934), Igor Netto (1930), Mordechai Spiegler (1944), Eduard Streltsov (1937), Oleg Salenko (1969), Slava Metreveli (1936), Viktor Ponedelnik (1937), Sergei Salnikov (1925), Andrey Arshavin (1981), and Valery Voronin (1939).

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