Lev Yashin

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Awards

Domestic

*1 gold medal for the USSR ice hockey championship
*5 gold, 5 silver, 1 bronze medals for the USSR championships (football)
*3 times USSR Cup winner

International

*1 Olympic gold medal
*1 gold medal as the European Championship winner
*1 silver medal as the European Championship runner-up

Other achievements

*European Footballer of the Year, "Golden Ball" Award (1963)
*Fourth place in the World Cup finals (1966)
*3 times The Best Goalkeeper of the USSR (1960,1963,1966)

*22 official seasons with the same club (1950-1970)
*Order of Lenin (1967)
*Olympic Order (1986)
*FIFA Order of Merit (1988)
*Golden medal of "Hammer and Sickle" (star) of Hero of Socialist Labor with Order of Lenin (equal to military award of Hero of the Soviet Union) (1989)
*FIFA “World-Keeper of the Century” title and FIFA “Century XI” team membership (2000)
*The Golden Player of Russia, by the Football Union of Russia as their most outstanding player of the past 50 years. (November 2003, to celebrate UEFA's Jubilee) [cite web | title=Golden Players take centre stage | work=uefa.com | url=http://www.uefa.com/uefa/news/Kind=256/newsId=130150.html | accessmonthday=13 August | accessyear=2006 ]

References

Bibliography

* (Original Title in Portuguese: "Estrela Solitária" (Lonely Star))

External links

* [http://www.uefa.com/uefa/history/associationweeks/association=57451/newsId=235065.html Russia's Golden Player]
* [http://goalkeepinggreats.webs.com/levyashin.htm Yashin @ Goalkeeping Greats]