Updated On: 13 June, 2018 07:22 AM IST | | Kashinath Bhattacharjee
His legacy was too big to ignore even for FIFA since the best penalty-stopper found his deserving place in the posters released for the 2018 World Cup

Lev Yashin's statue at FC Dynamo. Pics/Kashinath Bhattacharjee
The Vagankovskoye cemetery and football club Dynamo Moscow are situated at a distance of around six kilometers as per the radio taxi services. At the cemetery, the undisputed king of goalkeeping, late Lev Yashin, is seen standing with a ball in his hand while, at the entrance of the Dynamo Moscow club, his bronze sculpture depicts him positioned to fly into the sky to deny the ball from entering the goal. The sculptor Aleksandr Rukavishnikov's vision had made the goalpost triangular behind the cult goalie from Russia, the lone recipient of European Ballon d'Or in 1963 as the first and the only goalkeeper till date. For his all-black attire, including the cap, he was nicknamed 'Black Spider', 'Black Panther'.

Yashin's tombstone at Moscow's Vagankovskoye cemetery