Thursday, November 10, 2011

DID YOU KNOW THE ONLY GOALKEEPER TO HAVE WON THE BALLON D'OR FOR EUROPEAN FOOTBALLER OF THE YEAR?

Dynamo Moscow and Russia's shot stopper, Lev Yashin is the first and only goalkeeper to have won the Ballon d'Or Award in 1963 beating the likes of Gianni Rivera of AC Milan and Italy and Jimmy Greaves of Tottenham Hotspur and England to the prestigious statuette. He was nicknamed as "The Black Spider" because he famously wore a distinctive all-black outfit and it seemed as though he had eight arms to save almost everything.



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