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Lev Yashin

1929 - 1990

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Lev Ivanovich Yashin (Russian: Лев Иванович Яшин; 22 October 1929 – 20 March 1990) was a Soviet professional footballer, considered by many the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the sport. He was known for his athleticism, positioning, imposing presence in goal, and acrobatic reflex saves. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lev Yashin has received more than 3,987,111 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Lev Yashin is the 5th most popular soccer player (up from 10th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 52nd in 2019) and the most popular Russian Soccer Player.

Lev Yashin is most famous for being the goalkeeper for the Soviet Union in the 1960s. He is considered one of the best goalkeepers of all time.

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  • 77.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 75

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Lev Yashin ranks 5 out of 16,880. Before him are Pelé, Johan Cruyff, Ferenc Puskás, and Diego Maradona. After him are Gerd Müller, Franz Beckenbauer, Eusébio, Garrincha, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Zinedine Zidane, and Giuseppe Meazza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Lev Yashin ranks 8. Before him are Anne Frank, Yasser Arafat, Audrey Hepburn, Martin Luther King Jr., Bud Spencer, and Milan Kundera. After him are Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Jürgen Habermas, Sergio Leone, Imre Kertész, Jacques Brel, and Hassan II of Morocco. Among people deceased in 1990, Lev Yashin ranks 2. Before him is Rajneesh. After him are Greta Garbo, Ava Gardner, B. F. Skinner, Roald Dahl, Louis Althusser, Leonard Bernstein, Alberto Moravia, Norbert Elias, Paulette Goddard, and Sarah Vaughan.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lev Yashin ranks 32 out of 3,262. Before him are Mikhail Bakunin (1814), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), Alexander III of Russia (1845), Yuri Andropov (1914), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), and Maxim Gorky (1868). After him are Paul I of Russia (1754), Georgy Zhukov (1896), Valentina Tereshkova (1937), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919), and Elizabeth of Russia (1709).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Russia

Among soccer players born in Russia, Lev Yashin ranks 1. After him are Rinat Dasayev (1957), Valentin Ivanov (1934), Igor Netto (1930), Andrey Arshavin (1981), Eduard Streltsov (1937), Viktor Ponedelnik (1937), Mordechai Spiegler (1944), Slava Metreveli (1936), Oleg Salenko (1969), Sergei Salnikov (1925), and Anatoly Tarasov (1918).

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