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Football in the USSR and Russia, home to arguably the greatest goalkeeper in football history, Lev Yashin, has been waylaid by politics for decades.
Football in the USSR and Russia, home to arguably the greatest goalkeeper in football history, Lev Yashin, has been waylaid by politics for decades.
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