Lev Yashin

Yashin was born in Moscow, in a Russian family of industrial workers. When he was 12, World War II forced him to work in a factory to support the Soviet war effort. However his health at the age of 18 (after he suffered a nervous breakdown) meant he was unable to work.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/yashin “Bullet maker to Ballon d'Or: The man who reinvented goalkeeping”]. BBC. Retrieved 7 June 2018{{cite web|last1=Storey|first1=Daniel|title=Portrait of an icon: Lev Yashin|date=28 September 2016|url=http://www.football365.com/news/portrait-of-an-icon-lev-yashin}} Thus, he was sent to work in a military factory in Moscow. After being spotted playing for the factory team he was invited to join the Dynamo Moscow youth team.{{cite news |title=On This Day Legendary Goalkeeper Lev Yashin Would've Turned 90 |url=https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2019/10/22/on-this-day-legendary-goalkeeper-lev-yashin-wouldve-turned-90-a67853 |access-date=17 August 2021 |work=The Moscow Times}}

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Yashin’s debut for Dynamo Moscow came in 1950 in a friendly match. It was not the debut he would have hoped for, as he conceded a soft goal scored straight from a clearance by the opposing keeper. That year he played in only two league games, and did not appear in a senior match again until 1953. But he remained determined, and stayed at Dynamo in the reserves waiting for another opportunity. Yashin also played goalie for the Dynamo ice hockey team during those early years of trying to break into the senior squad. He managed to win a USSR ice hockey cup in 1953 and was third in the USSR ice hockey championship as goalkeeper.{{cite news|title=A tribute to Lev Yashin|url=http://bleacherreport.com/articles/49159-a-tribute-to-lev-yashin|agency=Bleacher Report|date=21 March 2018}}

He spent his entire professional football career with Dynamo Moscow, from 1950 to 1970, winning the USSR football championship five times and the Soviet Cup three times.{{cite news |title=Lev Ivanovich Yashin |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lev-Ivanovich-Yashin |access-date=17 August 2021 |work=Britannica}} Yashin's club teammate, rival and mentor was Alexei "Tiger" Khomich, the keeper of the Soviet national team, who had become famous for his role in Dynamo Moscow’s British tour. He also internally rivalled goalkeeper Valter Sanaya, who left the club in 1953.[http://russianfootballnews.com/lev-yashin-the-black-panther-who-changed-the-goalkeeper-position/ “Lev Yashin: The Black Panther Who Changed the Goalkeeper Position“] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623141640/http://russianfootballnews.com/lev-yashin-the-black-panther-who-changed-the-goalkeeper-position/ |date=23 June 2018 }}. Russian Football News. Retrieved 23 June 2018

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In 1954, Yashin was called up to the Soviet national team, and would go on to gather 78 caps.{{cite web | url = https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/yashin-intl.html | title = Lev Ivanovich Yashin – International Appearances | author = Arnhold, Matthias | date = 13 December 2012 | access-date = 2 January 2013 | publisher = Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation}} With the national team he won the 1956 Summer Olympics as well as the first European championship, the 1960 European Nations' Cup. He also played in three World Cups, in 1958, 1962 and 1966.{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ya/lev-yashin-1.html |title=Lev Yashin |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418054037/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ya/lev-yashin-1.html |archive-date=18 April 2020}} Yashin is credited with four clean sheets out of the 12 games he played in the World Cup finals.

The 1958 World Cup, played in Sweden, put Yashin on the map for his performances, with the Soviet Union advancing to the quarter-finals. In a group stage match against the eventual Cup winners Brazil, the Soviet team lost 2–0. Facing a Brazil team that featured Garrincha and a 17 year old Pelé in attack, Yashin's performance prevented the score from becoming a rout.{{cite book | first=Ruy | last= Castro | year=2005 | title=Garrincha – The Triumph and Tragedy of Brazil's Forgotten Footballing Hero| publisher=Yellow Jersey Press | location=London | isbn=0-224-06433-9 }}

Yashin was nominated for Ballon d'Or in 1960 and 1961 and placed fifth and fourth, respectively.Reno, Bill (12 May 2015) [https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/05/why-a-goalkeeper-will-never-win-another-ballon-dor.html Why a Goalkeeper Will Never Win Another Ballon d'Or]. Paste Magazine. In 1962, despite suffering two concussions during the tournament, he once again led the team to a quarter-final finish, before losing to host country Chile.{{cite web|url=http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/history/season=1960/historymaker/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420210955/http://en.euro2008.uefa.com/history/season%3D1960/historymaker/index.html |archive-date=20 April 2008 |title=Victor Ponedelnik |publisher=UEFA EURO 2008 |access-date=21 April 2008 |url-status=dead }} That tournament showed that Yashin was all too human, having made some uncharacteristic mistakes. In the game against Colombia, which the Soviet Union was leading 4–1, Yashin let in a few soft goals, including a goal scored by Marcos Coll directly from a corner kick. It was the first and the only goal scored directly from a corner in FIFA World Cup history.{{cite web |title=Historic moments at the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023 |url=https://www.fifamuseum.com/en/blog-stories/blog/historic-moments-at-the-fifa-women-s-world-cup-2023/ |website=FIFA Museum |access-date=7 September 2023 |date=19 August 2023}} The Soviet Union's game against Colombia finished in a 4–4 draw, which led the French newspaper L'Équipe to predict the end of Yashin's career.{{cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/worldcup2002/hi/team_pages/russia/newsid_1751000/1751095.stm| title = The path of the 'Panther' | work = BBC News| access-date=21 April 2008 | date=9 April 2002}} He did, however, make an outstanding save against Chile in the quarter-final. Despite this, the Soviet Union suffered a 2–1 defeat and were eliminated from the World Cup.

Despite the disappointment of the 1962 World Cup, Yashin would bounce back to win the Ballon d'Or in December 1963. One of his best performances that year was the 1963 England v Rest of the World football match, where he made a number of spectacular saves. From that point onward he was known to the world as the "Black Spider" because he wore a distinctive all-black outfit and because it seemed as though he had eight arms to save almost everything. But to his fans, he was always the fearless "Black Panther". He often played wearing a cloth cap of burnt-brick colour. Yashin led the Soviet team to its best showing at the FIFA World Cup, a fourth-place finish in the 1966 World Cup held in England.

Always ready to give advice to his comrades, Yashin even made a fourth trip to the World Cup finals in 1970, held in Mexico, as the third-choice back-up and an assistant coach. The Soviet team again reached the quarter-finals. In 1971, in Moscow, he played his last match for Dynamo Moscow. Lev Yashin's FIFA testimonial match was held at the Lenin Stadium in Moscow with 100,000 fans attending and a host of football stars, including Pelé, Eusébio and Franz Beckenbauer.

After retiring from playing, Yashin spent almost 20 years in various administrative positions at Dynamo Moscow. He also spent much of his retirement indulging in what his wife called his second passion: fishing. A bronze statue of Lev Yashin was erected at the Dynamo Stadium in Moscow.

In 1986, following a thrombophlebitis contracted while he was in Budapest, Yashin underwent the amputation of one of his legs. He died in 1990 of stomach cancer, despite a surgical intervention in an attempt to save his life. He was given a state funeral as a Soviet Honoured Master of Sport.

Yashin was survived by wife Valentina Timofeyevna and daughters Irina and Elena; when Russia hosted the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Valentina was still living in the Moscow apartment that the Soviet state had given her husband in 1964.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/yashin |title=Yashin |first=Patrick |last=Jennings |website=BBC.com |date=7 June 2018 |access-date=2 July 2018}} Yashin has a granddaughter and one surviving grandson; another grandson died in 2002 at age 14 from injuries suffered in a bicycle accident. The surviving grandson, Vasili Frolov, played as a goalkeeper in Dynamo's youth section and was on the books of the senior side,Pryakhin, Valery (19 January 2007) [http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/248111 Вратарь «Динамо» Василий Фролов, внук Льва Яшина: Бутсы деда мне великоваты] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916221007/http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/248111 |date=16 September 2017 }}. sovsport.ru but never played a game with the senior side, retiring from play at age 23. He now runs a goalkeeper training school in Moscow near Spartak Moscow's current stadium.

{{quote box|width=28%|align=right|quote="Lev Yashin was first-class, a real super goalkeeper. His positional play was excellent, but everything he did was top-class. He was the model for goalkeeping for the next 10 to 15 years, without a doubt. I visualised myself doing some of the things he was doing, even though I was already playing in the top division I used to learn from him."|source =—England legend Gordon Banks, voted the second greatest goalkeeper, behind Yashin, of the 20th Century.[https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17680769 "Euro 1960: Lev Yashin leads Soviets to glory in France"]. BBC. Retrieved 21 May 2014}}

{{quote box|width=28%|align=right|quote=Yashin was "the peerless goalkeeper of the century". |source =—Portugal legend Eusébio.}}

Considered by many in the sport to be the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the game, Yashin was an imposing presence in goal due to his tall stature, and was highly regarded for his athleticism, agility, positional sense, bravery, and exceptional reflexes, which enabled him to produce acrobatic and spectacular saves.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/021d-0e8f141f0275-968fbd474c1c-1000--saving-grace-europe-s-favourite-goalkeepers/ |title=Saving grace: Europe's favourite goalkeepers |publisher=UEFA |date=30 January 2015 |access-date=14 March 2020 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.goal.com/en/lists/buffon-or-yashin-top-10-goalkeepers-of-all-time/1mb2d3jk5w285150ykl834v60v|title=Buffon, Schmeichel or Yashin? Top 10 goalkeepers of all time|publisher=Goal.com|author1=Mark Doyle|date=27 January 2018|access-date=28 January 2018}} Yashin remains the only goalkeeper to have won the Ballon d'Or, in 1963. He also stopped 151 penalty kicks during his career, more than any other goalkeeper in history, and kept over 270 clean sheets. For his outstanding service to the people and to his country, Yashin was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1967, the highest award of the USSR.

{{Blockquote|“Yashin revolutionised the role of goalkeeper like no other before him, by always being ready to act as an extra defender” and by “starting dangerous counter-attacks with his positioning and quick throws”.|France Football, June 2018.}}

A vocal and authoritative figure between the posts, Yashin is known for revolutionising the goalkeeping position: he shouted orders at his defenders, came off his line to intercept crosses, and also ran out to meet onrushing attackers, done at a time when goalkeepers spent the 90 minutes standing in the goal waiting to be called into action. Yashin would always organise the defensive game of his team, often so fiercely that even his wife accused him of yelling too much on the pitch. He rarely captained his teams, as the later accepted custom of appointing a goalkeeper captain was virtually unheard-of in that era, but his leadership on the field was always evident. Yashin was one of the goalkeepers who began the practice of punching balls out in difficult situations instead of trying to catch them. Other novel practices he developed were the quick throw of the ball to begin a counterattack, coming out of the penalty area to anticipate danger, and the command and organisation of the defenders – practices now quite common among goalkeepers. When asked what his secret was, he would reply that the trick was "to have a smoke to calm your nerves, then toss back a strong drink to tone your muscles."Greaves, Jimmy (2008). Football's Great Heroes and Entertainers. Hachette UK. p. 1949. {{ISBN|1444718150}}

In 1994, FIFA established the Lev Yashin Award for the best goalkeeper at the World Cup finals. FIFA polls named Yashin as the sole goalkeeper in World Team of the 20th Century. World Soccer magazine named him in their 100 Greatest Players of the 20th century. Many commentators consider Yashin the best goalkeeper in the history of football, which has resulted in him being chosen to be the goalkeeper in most of the world-all-time teams (including the FIFA World Cup All-Time Team and the FIFA Dream Team).de Arruda, Marcelo Leme (15 May 2004) [https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/wrldallt.html World All-Time Teams]. Rec. Sport. Soccer Statistics Foundation. rsssf.org In 2020 Yashin was named in the Ballon d'Or Dream Team, a greatest all-time XI.{{cite web |title=Ballon d'Or Dream Team: Xavi alongside Messi and Cristiano |url=https://www.marca.com/en/football/international-football/2020/12/14/5fd78132268e3e48068b45e4.html |website=Marca |date=14 December 2020 |access-date=15 December 2020 |archive-date=15 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215113050/https://www.marca.com/en/football/international-football/2020/12/14/5fd78132268e3e48068b45e4.html |url-status=live}}

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The following works are devoted to Yashin:

• Song "Вратарь" ("Goalkeeper", 1971) by Vladimir Vysotsky.Roganov, Nikolai (25 January 2013) [http://m.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/583522 История песни «Вратарь». Владимиру Высоцкому сегодня исполнилось бы 75] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424104416/http://m.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/583522 |date=24 April 2016 }}. sovsport.ru
• Poem "Года летят" ("Years go by") by Robert Rozhdestvensky.{{cite book|author=Galchuk, Andrei|title=Мир мужских увлечений. Лучший подарок настоящему мужчине|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=97qCAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA172|date=2014|publisher=ЛитРес|isbn=978-5-457-59663-4|pages=172–}}
• Poem "Вратарь выходит из ворот" ("Goalkeeper is coming out of the goal", 1974) by Yevgeny Yevtushenko.Shestak, Anna (2009) [https://web.archive.org/web/20211124220454/http://bulvar.com.ua/arch/2009/38/4aba70ff5e41a/view_print/ Евгений ЕВТУШЕНКО: «Поэзии я учился у советского футбола»]. Bulvar Gordona, Vol. 38 (230)
• A Russian-language biopic about his life, entitled Lev Yashin: Goalie of My Dreams, was released on 22 October 2017. Its director Oleg Kapanets previously produced Gagarin: First in Space.{{cite news|script-title=ru:Стали известны претенденты на роль Льва Яшина (голосование)|url=http://www.sovsport.ru/news/text-item/783257|access-date=21 April 2015|work=Sovetsky Sport|trans-title=Contenders for the role of Lev Yashin revealed|date=4 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150418202618/http://www.sovsport.ru/news/text-item/783257|archive-date=18 April 2015|url-status=dead}}
• Statues of Yashin were unveiled at both Luzhniki Stadium, in 1997, and Central Dynamo Stadium, in 1999.{{Cite web |url=http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arthistory/events/2014/163.html |title=From Rio to Russia: Imaging the World Cup |access-date=30 December 2022 |archive-date=30 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221230040344/http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arthistory/events/2014/163.html |url-status=dead }}
• The new billion-dollar Dynamo Moscow stadium, VTB Arena, is officially called Lev Yashin Stadium.
• Several streets are named after Yashin in Russian cities, and there are multiple monuments of Yashin, both in Russia and abroad.{{cite news |title=Pose for a photo with legendary Lev Yashin in Moscow and elsewhere |url=https://www.mos.ru/en/news/item/40110073/ |access-date=28 August 2018 |agency=Mos.ru. |archive-date=29 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180829000240/https://www.mos.ru/en/news/item/40110073/ |url-status=dead }}
• Yashin features in EA Sports' FIFA football video game series: he was added as an Ultimate Team Icon in FIFA 18, joined by many other legends of the sport.
• In 2018, Yashin appeared on a new 100-ruble commemorative banknote from the Central Bank of Russia celebrating the 2018 FIFA World Cup in the country; he also appeared on the official World Cup poster released in November 2017.{{cite news |title=Russia Commemorates 2018 World Cup with Country's 1st Polymer Banknote |url=https://coinweek.com/paper-money-2/russia-issues-new-100-ruble-fifa-banknote/ |access-date=1 July 2018 |publisher=CoinWeek |date=25 May 2018}}

Yashin also played ice hockey (also as a goalie) and he won the Soviet Cup in March 1953. He was even among the candidates for the country's ice hockey national team, but he stopped playing ice hockey in 1954 to concentrate on his football career.

{{Blockquote|"What kind of a goalkeeper is the one who is not tormented by the goal he has allowed? He must be tormented! And if he is calm, that means the end. No matter what he had in the past, he has no future."|Lev Yashin.{{cite news|title=Yashin, the impregnable Spider|url=https://www.fifa.com/fifa-tournaments/players-coaches/people=174638/profile.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908214439/http://www.fifa.com/fifa-tournaments/players-coaches/people=174638/profile.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 September 2015|agency=FIFA.com.|date=21 March 2018}}}}

{{Blockquote|"The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save."|Lev Yashin.{{cite news |title=The spider against the panther |url=https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/the-spider-against-the-panther-2790523 |agency=FIFA.com |date=7 June 2018}}}}

{{Blockquote|"There have only been two world-class goalkeepers. One was Lev Yashin, the other was the German boy who played for Manchester City."|Lev Yashin on Bert Trautmann.{{cite news |title=Bert Trautmann, Who Won Iron Cross and F.A. Cup, Dies at 89 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/sports/soccer/bert-trautmann-won-iron-cross-and-fa-cup-dies-at-89.html |work=The New York Times |date=7 June 2018}}}}

{{Blockquote|"I am not the best goalkeeper in the world, it is Vladimir Beara."|Lev Yashin, upon receiving the award for best player in 1963.{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2008/aug/05/europeanfootball| title=Meet Yugoslavia's ballerina Beara, once the best keeper in the world| author=Jonathan Wilson| date=5 August 2008| newspaper=The Guardian| access-date=December 21, 2013}}{{cite web| url=http://www.istoriafotbalului.com/tradatorii-iii-vladimir-beara/| title=Trădătorii (III): Vladimir Beara| author=Buturugeanu, Alex | date=1 October 2010| publisher=Istoria Fotbalului| access-date=21 December 2013}}}}

{{Blockquote|"Yashin plays football better than me".|Striker Sandro Mazzola after a 1963 Italy–USSR match, during which Yashin saved his penalty.{{cite news |title=Yashin, the man in black who shone bright |url=http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/association=rus/news/newsid=235065.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140105181901/http://www.uefa.com/memberassociations/association=rus/news/newsid=235065.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 January 2014 |agency=UEFA.com |date=7 June 2018}}}}

• 812 career games played{{cite web |script-title=ru:Лев Яшин |work=russiateam.ru |url=http://www.rusteam.permian.ru/players/yashin.html |access-date=18 March 2011 |language=ru |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110824105208/http://www.rusteam.permian.ru/players/yashin.html |archive-date=24 August 2011 |url-status=dead}}
• estimated to have made over 150 penalty saves during his career{{cite web |title=Lev YASHIN |work=russiateam.ru |url=http://russiateam.com/legends/yashin.html |access-date=18 March 2011 |archive-date=5 July 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150705200138/http://russiateam.com/legends/yashin.html |url-status=dead }}
• 326 games played for Dynamo Moscow main line-up (football team){{NFT player|id=19046|name=Yashin, Lev|accessdate= }}
• 74 caps for the USSR national team (70 goals conceded)
• 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

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

Individual

• UEFA European Championship Team of the Tournament: 1960,{{cite news|date=1 February 2011|title=1960 team of the tournament|work=Union of European Football Associations|url=https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro-2020/news/0253-0d7f20bc921c-495824f652eb-1000--euro-1960-team-of-the-tournament/?iv=true|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724121103/https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro-2020/news/0253-0d7f20bc921c-495824f652eb-1000--euro-1960-team-of-the-tournament/?iv=true|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 July 2020|access-date=14 May 2020}} 1964{{cite news|title=1964 team of the tournament|work=Union of European Football Associations|url=https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro-2020/news/0253-0d7d0bdc396b-570ad6e6ff87-1000--euro-1964-team-of-the-tournament/?iv=true|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724153004/https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro-2020/news/0253-0d7d0bdc396b-570ad6e6ff87-1000--euro-1964-team-of-the-tournament/?iv=true|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 July 2020|access-date=14 May 2020}}
• USSR Goalkeeper of the year: 1960, 1963, 1966{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}
• Ballon d'Or Winner: 1963, nominated: 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1964, 1965, 1966{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/europa-poy.html|title=European Footballer of the Year ("Ballon d'Or")|author1=Rob Moore|author2=Karel Stokkermans|date=21 January 2011|website=RSSSF|access-date=10 April 2025}}
• World Soccer World XI: 1963,[http://beyondthelastman.com/2013/04/29/eric-battys-world-xis-the-sixties/ "ERIC BATTY’S WORLD XI – THE SIXTIES"] Retrieved on 29 November 2015 1964, 1966, 1967
• FIFA XI: 1963,[https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/fifa-xi.html FIFA XI´s Matches – Full Info] 1968
• ADN Eastern European Footballer of the Season: 1963{{cite web|url=http://ukrfootball.ua/news/albert-dzhayich-blohin-stoyichkov-levandovski-shcho-spilnogo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304200112/http://ukrfootball.ua/news/albert-dzhayich-blohin-stoyichkov-levandovski-shcho-spilnogo |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-03-04 |website=WebArchive |title=Eastern European Footballer of the season|access-date=5 July 2024 }}
• Europe XI: 1964,{{Cite web|title=Matches of Supranational Representative Teams 1937-1970|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/contreps3770.html|access-date=22 December 2021|website=RSSSF}} 1964,{{Cite web|title=Matches of Supranational Representative Teams 1937-1970|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/contreps3770.html|access-date=22 December 2021|website=RSSSF}} 1965{{Cite web|title=Matches of Supranational Representative Teams 1937-1970|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesc/contreps3770.html|access-date=22 December 2021|website=RSSSF}}
• European football Oscars: 1963-64{{Cite web |title=European football Oscar 1964 |url=https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/european-football-oscar-1964.2110706/ |access-date=31 May 2022 |website=BigSoccer Forum |language=en-US}}
• World XI selected by italian press. 1960,{{Cite web |title=Revista do Esporte (RJ) - 1959 a 1970 - DocReader Web |url=https://memoria.bn.br/DocReader/docreader.aspx?bib=144118&pesq=andrade%20samitier&pagfis=6404 |access-date=31 May 2022 |website=memoria.bn.br}} 1961{{Cite web |title=Ballon d'Or awards revisited by BigSoccer users |url=https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/ballon-dor-awards-revisited-by-bigsoccer-users.2119696/page-14#post-40429364 |access-date=31 May 2022 |website=BigSoccer Forum |language=en-US}}
• FUWO European Team of the Year: 1965,{{cite web |url=https://www.fcc-supporters.org/fuwo/files/FUWO%201966/FUWO%201966%2001.pdf |website=FCC-Wiki|title=FUWO 1966|access-date=23 April 2024 }} 1966{{cite web |url=https://www.fcc-supporters.org/fuwo/files/FUWO%201967/FUWO%201967%2002.pdf |website=FCC-Wiki|title=FUWO 1967|access-date=23 April 2024 }}
• Order of Lenin
• Silver Olympic Order
• FIFA Order of Merit
• Placar's All-Time Team{{Cite web|title=World All-Time Teams|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/wrldallt.html|access-date=22 December 2021|website=RSSSF}}
• Placar's 100 Stars of the Century: #11{{Cite web|title=The Best x Players of the Century/All-Time|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/best-x-players-of-y.html|access-date=22 December 2021|website=RSSSF}}
• FIFA World Cup All-Time Team
• Planète Foot's All-Time Team
• France Football's Football Player of the Century: #10
• Planète Foot's 50 Best Players of all Time
• Venerdì's All-Time Team
• Venerdì's 100 Magnificent{{Cite web|title=Venerdì's All-Time Top-100 (100 Magnifici)|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/100magn.html|access-date=22 December 2021|website=RSSSF}}
• World Soccer's 100 Greatest Footballers of All Time: #11
• World Team of the 20th Century
• Voetbal International's Team of the Century
• Voetbal International's World Stars by Raf Willems
• Jornal A Tarde All-Time Team
• Placar's 100 Stars of the World Cup: #23{{Cite web|title=Os 100 Craques das Copas (Placar Magazine)|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/placwc100.html|access-date=22 December 2021|website=RSSSF}}
• O Estado de São Paulo All-Time Team
• World Hall of Fame of Soccer{{Cite web|title=Hall of Fame of Soccer Mexico and World|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/mex-hof.html|access-date=22 December 2021|website=RSSSF}}
• France Football Greatest Goalkeeper of All Time
• FIFA Goalkeeper of the 20th Century
• FIFA World Cup Dream Team
• Golden Player of Russia
• World Soccer Greatest XI of all time{{cite news |title=The Greatest: – how the panel voted |url=http://www.worldsoccer.com/features/the-greatest-xi-how-the-panel-voted-341427 |work=World Soccer |date=23 June 2018}}
• World Sports dream team of the past 20 years: 1970{{Cite web |title=Old great players lists (esp. 1950s - 1970s) ? |url=https://www.bigsoccer.com/threads/old-great-players-lists-esp-1950s-1970s.2038892/#post-35140367 |access-date=31 May 2022 |website=BigSoccer Forum |language=en-US}}
• IFFHS Legends{{cite web|url=http://iffhs.de/iffhs-has-announced-the-48-football-legend-players/|title=IFFHS announce the 48 football legend players|publisher=IFFHS|date=25 January 2016|access-date=14 September 2016|archive-date=24 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190924082150/https://iffhs.de/iffhs-has-announced-the-48-football-legend-players/|url-status=dead}}
• IFFHS World Goalkeeper of the Century{{Cite web|title=IFFHS' Century Elections|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/iffhs-century.html|access-date=22 December 2021|website=RSSSF}}
• IFFHS European Goalkeeper of the Century
• Ballon d'Or Dream Team{{cite web |last=Crépin |first=Timothé |title=Ballon d'Or Dream Team : Découvrez les révélations de ce onze de légende ! |url=https://www.francefootball.fr/news/Ballon-d-or-dream-team-decouvrez-les-revelations-de-ce-onze-de-legende/1205748 |website=France Football |language=fr |date=14 December 2020 |access-date=14 December 2020}}
• IFFHS All-time Men's Dream Team{{cite web |url=https://www.iffhs.com/posts/1110 |title=IFFHS ALL TIME WORLD MEN'S DREAM TEAM |work=IFFHS |date=22 May 2021 }}
• IFFHS All-time Europe Men's Dream Team{{cite web|url=https://www.iffhs.com/posts/1121|publisher=IFFHS|date=29 May 2021| access-date=31 May 2021|title=IFFHS}}
• IFFHS Men Team of the Century (1901-2000){{Cite web |title=IFFHS MEN WORLD TEAM OF THE XXth CENTURY (1901-2000) |url=https://www.iffhs.com/posts/1060 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210528224421/https://www.iffhs.com/posts/1060 |archive-date=28 May 2021 |access-date=8 November 2021 |website=www.iffhs.com}}

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• {{cite web|author=Matthias Arnhold|url=https://www.rsssf.org/miscellaneous/yashin-intl.html|title=Lev Ivanovich Yashin – International Appearances|publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation|date=13 December 2012}}

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