Talk:Lev Yashin

Black Panther?
I don't know about the rest of you, but i never hear about the "black panther", I always hear that everybody call him the "black spider". And considering the time and place of his play i think it's more probable in the soviet union to be named a spider than a panther. In other languages in wikipedia he is also named black spider.


 * its black spider 37.239.106.10 (talk) 15:05, 5 December 2021 (UTC)

Black Panther?
Lev Yashin was nicknamed Black Spider, The Black Panther was the former Portuguese striker Eusébio, this is normal because he was born in Mozambique, Africa

Russian Footballers Category
I am surprised someone removed him from this category. As Lev Yashin was an ethnic russian, and there were many soviet footballers from other ethnicitys, I think he should also be included in this category. User:Mistico
 * Please see Category talk:Russian people. Conscious 04:42, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
 * So, Category:Russian footballers is not about ethnicity (it's a subcategory of Category:Football (soccer) players by country). If it were so, we would have to exclude many footballers who play for Russia but are not ethnic Russians. Are you OK with removing the category? Conscious 04:59, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

I have to agree, it´s not about ethnicity but nationality, so he should remain in this category too. Sorry if I didn`t express myself the better way. User:Mistico

I invite the Conscious user to go search some entries about other footballers, like Eusébio and Rui Jordão. They appear both as mozambican, angolan and portuguese, even having played before their countries independence. Like also an english footballer will also be a british footballer, even if England or Scotland aren´t independent. Since the USSR recognized the existence of several nationalities, I think as a respect for Lev Yashin true nationality, he also should be included in the Russian footballers category, because Russia always was is main country, even as a part of USSR. In fact, it could have been possible that every 15 soviet republics had their own National Team, like today it happens with the four members of United Kingdom. That´s why I think to show what was the first nationality from Yashin, and from other soviet footballers (ukrainian, belarrussian, armenian, etc), they should appear in both, and not only in the soviet footballers category. User:Mistico

I ask, once for all, to the User Conscious, to stop removing Lev Yashin from the Russian footabllers category. I already explain why it should remain there. User:Mistico
 * No, let me disagree again. The example with the UK is irrelevant, because they always had four teams and are the exception in the football-related matters. And it was quite impossible for USSR to have 15 national teams. At the time Yashin played football, there was no country named Russia on the map. Conscious 17:57, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

That´s because you never saw correctly a USSR map. They had the 15 Soviet Socialist Republics there. I don´t now if you ever heard of the Federated Socialist Sovietic Republic of Russia ? User:Mistico


 * Lev Yashin was a Russian footballer. He was born of Russian parents, lived and died in Moscow. Topic closed. -- Ghirla -трёп-  09:33, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
 * You guys are being rude, but your opinion is pretty clear. I would appreciate if you placed other Soviet footballers (or better yet, other Soviet people) in appropriate categories according to your criteria. Conscious 07:16, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Weasel Words
The phrase "arguably the best ever in the sport" is unclear. Who is it argued by? I don't disagree with the viewpoint, I just think that to conform with WP:AWW and WP:NPOV it should be stated differently. Either say, give examples of football authorities who have argued this point or perhaps say that he was considered so impressive that FIFA named the Yashin award after him. Or say that he is the only goalkeeper to win European Footballer of the Year. The way its stated in the introduction isn't a neutral point of view. Crito2161 15:37, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Dubious Information
Caps and goal figures in the article likely contain European cup/Domestic cup data in addition to Domestic League data (this is very certain based on this user's previous edits containing similar information . Please correct this issue and leave a note here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Alfmaster#Footballers.27_European_goals, to warn this person about putting improper information on Wikipedia. --Palffy 21:12, 25 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I've looked for sources on his career stats, none seem to dispute that Lashin played 326 times in the USSR Championship, and 812 times in total, which would suggest that the 326 figure is the most accurate one we have for the infobox.  Slumgum   T.   C. ''  21:55, 13 August 2006 (UTC) PS: This is the best reference I can find.

Yashin's height mentioned under 'Personal Information' doesn't match the height mentioned in the introduction.

Gordon Banks was better!

For goalkeepers I see little use of a goals scored column. Most goalies will only score a dozen goals in their long careers. Why not a goals conceded column instead?Alanobrien (talk) 12:33, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

Jew?
Somebody put him in a few Jewish categories. This info is not supported by the article and quick googling only gives forums as sources for such information. Also while both Lev and Yashin are frequent Russian Jewish names the patronymic Ivanovich is not (especially at those times). Please do not add these cats unless a reliable source is provided.

I have also was not able to verify that he was an Orthodox Christian. Thus, I have removed those cats as well Alex Bakharev (talk) 06:19, 6 November 2009 (UTC)


 * According to this site (in Hebrew but you can translate it to English)

Such was Yankel, a warm man with no in-betweens, and that is how he treated the Russian goalkeeper Lev Yashin his longtime friend, who became crippled and was confined to a wheelchair ... Yankele took care of all his needs, from the moment he landed in in Israel in 1993 - and escorted him to the medical procedures that he had initiated for his Russian companion.
 * ...Of course this info is incompatible with the notice of death in this article in 1990.
 * Was Yaakov Khodorov friends with a Russian Jew, or just with a Russian athlete?
 * Did Yashin die in Israel?
 * Perhaps I'll ask around and find out more. See you again and Chag Sameach (Succot 5771)

פשוט pashute ♫ (talk) 01:10, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

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Career
A goalkeeper is not set to score a goal for the team he/she plays for, so I suggest you to write how many clean sheets ans saves they have done in their career. Zaki Frahmand — Preceding undated comment added 07:56, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
 * This has been discussed here. Kind regards, Robby.is.on (talk) 10:20, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Nonsensical phrase
“unable to work.[3][17] Thus, he was sent to work” doesn’t make much sense. 82.35.81.189 (talk) 02:32, 17 December 2022 (UTC)