MOSCOW, May 11. Farewell ceremony for Valentina Yashina, wife of the European champion in 1960 football goalkeeper Lev Yashin will be held on May 14, according to the official Telegram channel of the Moscow Dynamo. The ceremony will be held in the funeral hall of the Central Design Bureau of the Office of the President of the Russian Federation. The funeral will take place at 13:00 at the Vagankovsky cemetery in Moscow, where Lev Yashin is buried. Valentina Yashina at the age of 92 became known on Tuesday. Valentina Yashina has been married to Lev Yashin since 1954. Throughout her career, her husband represented Dynamo Moscow. Yashin is the Olympic champion in 1956, the best goalkeeper of the 20th century according to FIFA, the only goalkeeper among the winners of the Golden Ball (in 1963). In December 2020, he was named to the “Dream Team” by France Football magazine. Yashin himself died in 1990 at the age of 60.
