Russian legendary gets coroneted as best goalkeeper
(MENAFN) The International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) has given the title of best goalkeeper in the sport’s history to soviet soccer playing star Lev Yashin. This famous heads the institution’s recent historic ranking, in advance of Gianluigi Buffon and Manuel Neuer.
The current ranking, that was released on Friday, has in addition, Iker Casillas, Gordon Banks, Petr Cech, Dino Zoff, Sepp Maier, Ricardo Zamora, as well as Oliver Kahn.
The legend Lev Yashin, spent his whole club profession for Dynamo Moscow, stays the solely goalkeeper to win the Ballon d’Or, given by the magazine France Football, which is a glamorous yearly prize, since the year of 1956 to the best soccer player in worldwide. He was honored in and attaining 74 caps for the USSR national team, having won the 1956 Olympic gold medal and the 1960 European Championship.
His last game happened before 54 years ago on the 27th of May. As he played in the presence of above 100,000 fans at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium.
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