Stepashin: Dynamo will dedicate victory in the Russian Cup to Valentina Yashina

MOSCOW, May 14, Alexander Sergeyev. Football club «Dynamo» in the event winning the Cup of Russia will dedicate the victory to Valentina Yashina, said the former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Blue and White Society, Sergei Stepashin. The death of the widow of the goalkeeper of the USSR national team and Dynamo Lev Yashin at the age of 92 became known on Tuesday. Her funeral will take place on Saturday at the Vagankovsky cemetery. «Valentina Timofeevna (Yashina) was brilliantly versed in football. I knew only one more such specialist with whom I went to football — Konstantin Ivanovich Beskov. She was her symbol for Dynamo. Thank God, that she managed to give a prize to Antosha (Anton Shunin) for a hundred «dry» matches. She was going to the Russian Cup final, she dreamed about it. If Dynamo takes the trophy, we will dedicate it to her, «Stepashin told reporters. In the Cup final Russia «Dynamo» will meet with the Moscow «Spartak». The match will take place at the Luzhniki Stadium on May 29.