Yashins biography

He loved fishing, his native club and his country. It was also incredibly good on the field. Lev Ivanovich Yashin is the only goalkeeper in the world awarded the prestigious Golden Ball Prize. A photo of an athlete with a trophy today is perceived as surprisingly as his career in one club. And the moments of rest, captured in the pictures, send us to the nostalgic and pleasant past of the athlete.

This largely determined the image of Yashin in his adults - a simple Soviet man. Well, the best in the world at the same time. Unfortunately, the childhood of Leo was difficult. He lost his mother very early. Anna Mitrofanovna failed with tuberculosis and died when the child was 6 years old. The boy’s father devoted little time to the child, all because he worked at the factory-it was impossible in the Soviet years in the Soviet years.

Leo spent a lot of time on the street, constantly played football in the summer, hockey, when snow fell. This also played a large role in its formation. The beginning of the Great Patriotic War met in the suburbs of Podolsk, where he lived with relatives. Soon the family was evacuated to Ulyanovsk, where he began to work at the factory, helping in the rear.

Either the loader, then the locksmith - this is how almost three years have passed from the biography of the future football player Leo Yashin. He returned to Moscow only in the year. Already in the fall of this year, Lev began to actively play sports in the factory team Red October. It was there that Yashin was put on the goal, although before that he preferred to play in the field.

In this team, the football player lingered for three years, played, as before, in football and hockey. At the age of 18, Yashin decided to join the army, because he had burned out from factory reality. In the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he had the opportunity to engage in football. Already in the summer of the year he was determined in the Dynamo youth team, and from there he was transferred to the main composition.

The third goalkeeper is still. The beginning of the football career of Leo Yashin was marked with an incident - he missed a goal from someone else's goalkeeper. All because I ran into a penaltyman with his player. But this did not affect the decision of the coaches to include the athlete in the application for the season. In the official match for the team, Yashin made his debut on July 2.

And immediately against Spartak! In the matter, as usual, the case intervened. The main goalkeeper of Dynamo Khomich was injured, and his understudy Sanya fell ill. And then there was no curious goal against the future of the future legend, and the mistake was similar: the game at the exits did not immediately become the stronger side of the goalkeeper. They played, Yashin was entrusted with another meeting - with the Tbilisi Dynamo.

In the first half, the goalkeeper acted reliably, Muscovites were led, but in the second he again made a couple of assignment errors, one again at the exit. The goalkeeper was quickly exiled to the “double”, the player missed the season completely. Isolation in football lasted up to a year. Prior to this, the goalkeeper played in the "oak" of the Moscow team, where he showed himself well, and began to play hockey.

Interestingly, also in Dynamo, also in the position of goalkeeper. And how played! With the participation of Yashin in the year, Muscovites hockey players became the third in the championship, they took the country's Cup. The first trophy of the legend was received on skates. Yashin could even go to the team’s games, but refused it to become the greatest goalkeeper in a different sport.

It was hockey experience that greatly helped Yashin in a football career.

He began to play as no goalkeeper earlier: use the game with his feet. Another breakthrough was that Yashin did not always fix the ball “tightly”, but knocked out to the side or beyond the crossbar. The growth of a football player helped this: centimeters. Glated training in the Dynamo football and hockey practice returned Yashin to the main composition of the club.

In the year, the goalkeeper held a match for the main team for the first time in almost three years. True, it was not possible to take a place at the base again. Yashin made effective mistakes, but Shana did the same. Therefore, the coach released them in turn. In the summer of GO Yashin, despite the mistakes, he was already the main goalkeeper, quickly progressed and improved his technique.

According to the results of the Dynamo season, it stopped a step away from the medals, and Yashin was one of the best players of the championship. Loud victories both in the inner arena and on the international came a little later. Even Eduard Streltsov could not protect himself from such a lifestyle, whose reckless rest forever broke his career of genius.

But Leo Yashin, fortunately, escaped such a fate. The personal life of the legend is probably the most calm part of the biography. Yashin’s acquaintance with his wife Valentina happened even when the future goalkeeper worked in Tushin at an aviation plant. They met in the evening during dancing. Interestingly, she refused to dance with Leo. But they did not stop their communication and over time it grew into feelings.

As soon as they began to meet, Yashin immediately spoke about marriage. But the celebration took place only in the year. This marriage was happy, despite the fact that Yashin was and hot -tempered. Valentina gave him two daughters Irina and Elena. Interestingly, the grandson of the legendary goalkeeper Vasily Frolov also became the goalkeeper.He did not succeed in a big career, but he successfully coached in large football clubs, for example, in Irtysh.

But he knew how to relax and find a mental balance in fishing or hunting. Often he fish after unsuccessful games in which he missed optional goals. Such a vacation helped to switch from problems. Even in the war years, when he worked as a child at the factory, Leo added to smoking. The athlete did not refuse to death until his death. In his youth and during his career years, the player’s health made it possible to endure the harmful effect of cigarettes and smoked Yashin half a pack of a day, it doesn’t matter, on vacation or during Dynamo games or the national team.

But after the end of the career, this led to problems and even to amputation of the leg. He became part of the most successful generation of Soviet and Russian football players. Unlike today's white-white fans, fans of the mid-20th century could be satisfied with their team. The hockey "Dynamo" believed in the power of the goalkeeper earlier than football. In the final of the tournament, Dynamo collided with the “Central House of Artists” and won the first such title in the year.

Before the start of the season, the head coach of the team Mikhail Yakushin made several more innovations in the preparation of Yashin. The goalkeeper participated in exercises as a field player. On the field, the lion stood out with an even more bold game than before. According to the results of the Dynamo season, Spartak went over four points. The confident game of the goalkeeper allowed him to get a call to the national team.

In E “Dynamo” was a formidable force. In the season, it was possible to protect the title, although the main competitors were closer than 34 points following the results of Dynamo, 33 - at Spartak, 31 at the Central House of Sciences. Yashin missed only 16 goals that season. The Spartak title nevertheless took in the year, but Dynamo again regained the status of the best team of the country in two more championships in and the last championship of Yashin and the team turned out to be unique to the athlete.

He already had some health problems, but took part in 27 games, and missed only six goals. At that time it was a record result. In the year, Muscovites in the final beat the Kuibyshev Zenit Yashin spent 85 minutes on the field, was replaced in the end. Another trophy was won in the year, the third for the goalkeeper and the fourth for the club. The first major international starts, where the team was allowed to bring positive emotions to the fans and satisfaction of the authorities.

This is not to say that the USSR was stronger than the rest, but in all matches they were able to persuade the scales in their favor. In the final against Yugoslavia, Yashin played to zero, the team defeated Yugoslavia with an account