Football is the world's largest sport, and in its long and long development process, there are naturally countless talented elites emerging, which are amazed by fans. Pele, Maradona, Cruyff, Beckenbauer, Di Stefano and others have already left a strong mark on the history of world football. Today, the "absolute double pride" is leading the way, and this decade belongs to the era of Messi C Ronaldo. Perhaps the greatness of these superstars is difficult to quantify, and their respective fans are not convinced of each other, but there is a player who is well-deservedly the first in history in his field and his time. This superstar is the former Soviet door god LevOvich Yashin .
In 1929, Yasin was born in Moscow to a family of locksmith workers, and as a teenager, he also "inherited his father's business" and became a small locksmith (people who know how to open locks can better guard the door!). ）。 Throughout his career, Yassin only played for Dynamo Moscow (the loyal buff of "one man, one city"). Between 1949 and 1971, he won the Soviet Football League five times and the Soviet Cup three times. Interestingly, early in Yassin's career, Yassin also made a "cameo" as a goalkeeper for the Dynamo Moscow ice hockey team due to his temporary inability to serve as the starting goalkeeper. Even more legendary, he also won the 1953 Soviet Ice Hockey League with the team (the all-around goalkeeper, real hammer!). ）。
At the national team level, from Yassin's call-up to the national team in 1954, he played a total of 78 matches for the national team and won the 1956 Melbourne Olympic football gold medal and the 1960 European National Cup. Yassin also played for his country in three World Cups (1958, 1962 and 1966), and in his 13 World Cup matches, Yassin successfully kept four clean sheets, which was already not easy. In 1971, FIFA specially organized a friendly match between Dynamo Moscow and European Stars to make the legend retire.
Here comes the big play! The following honours are key to Jasin's position as goalkeeper and in football: Jasin is the only goalkeeper to date to have been honoured with the European Footballer of the Year (1963).
As we all know, the position of "goalkeeper" on the football field is somewhat delicate. Goalkeepers are definitely an integral part of the team, but they have a hard time getting the attention and cheers of other position players; goalkeepers will definitely make fans shout "Daddy" when they dedicate themselves to their pokes, but once they make mistakes, they will be even more doomed( Karius: I have something to say!). ）。 But Yassin, he is so perfect, even the king pele has a lot of praise for Yassin: if you want to break Yassin's goal, you have to work twice as hard. Here are the statistics of his career technology (excerpted from Wikipedia):
812 football matches
480 games without conceding a goal
150 penalties (98 recorded saves in official matches)
326 matches for Dynamo Moscow
78 games for the USSR (70 goals scored)
13 World Cup matches (4 with clean sheets)
2 FIFA World Football Stars matches (1963 against England and 1968 against Brazil)
In 2000, Yassin was deservedly selected by FIFA to be included in the "Century XI" (Century SQUAD) and even overridden England's legendary goalkeeper Gordan Banks, who staged the "Save of the Century", to become the "Goalkeeper of the Century".
Banks flew to block Pele's header for the 'save of the century'
Sadly, in 1990, Yassin died of complications caused by a previous forced amputation of a blood clot in his right leg, and he was unable to see his greatness go down in history. In honor of his life's work, FIFA established the "Yasin Award" to award the best goalkeeper in each World Cup (renamed the "Golden Glove Award" since 2010; however, since 2019, the French Football magazine has established a new "Yasin Award" to recognize the best goalkeeper of the year. Man, your mantle is still passed on! ）。
Yassin not only surpassed all the goalkeepers of his generation, but was also a pioneer who revolutionized the way goalkeepers played and redefined the function of goalkeepers. He was the first "scavenger" goalkeeper, and in this day and age, goalkeepers like German goalkeeper Neuer are in this style; however, in the 1950s, Yasin was already playing so boldly and impeccably. At the time, there was also criticism of his style of play, calling it "acrobatics", however, it turned out that Yassin was only far ahead of the times. Not much, it's decades early. Without Yassin's "outside-goal line responsibility theory", perhaps most goalkeepers are still honestly staying at the goal line now, reacting only to shots (not picking crosses and not directing the defensive line), and the coverage of activities is pitifully small, let alone the goalkeeper attacking - without Yassin, the position of goalkeeper may become so boring.
This is the greatness of Lev-Jasin: he is perfect and impeccable in every angle. The world has never questioned Yassin's greatness and exalted status.