Q- What is 'Yashin Award'?
Answer:
It is an award given to the ‘Best Goalkeeper’ of the FIFA tournament based on the player’s performance throughout the competition. It is named in honour of the late Russian-Soviet Goalkeeper, Lev Ivanovich Yashin. Yashin was also voted the best goalkeeper of the 20th century by the IFFHS (International Federation of Football History & Statistics). Yashin is considered as the ‘Greatest Goalkeeper in the History of Football’. He is known to have stopped around 150 penalty kicks during his career. He was popularly known as the ‘Black Spider’ because he wore a distinctive all-black outfit and because it seemed as though he had eight arms to save almost everything. He was also known as the fearless ‘Black Panther’. He received these titles because of great athletic abilities and inventing the idea of goalkeeper sweeping. After 2010, the award’s name was changed to ‘Golden Glove Award’. The Yashin Award was first awarded in 1994 to Michel Preud'homme, Belgian Football Goalkeeper.
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