Editing Lev Yashin (section)

==Personal life and health==
After retiring from playing, Yashin spent almost 20 years in various administrative positions at Dynamo Moscow. He also spent much of his retirement indulging in what his wife called his second passion: fishing. A [[bronze]] statue of Lev Yashin was erected at the [[Central Dynamo Stadium|Dynamo Stadium]] in Moscow.<ref name="Yashin"/>

In 1986, following a [[thrombophlebitis]] contracted while he was in [[Budapest]], Yashin underwent the amputation of one of his legs.<ref name="Yashin"/> He died in 1990 of [[stomach cancer]], despite a surgical intervention in an attempt to save his life. He was given a [[state funeral]] as a Soviet Honoured Master of Sport.<ref name="Yashin"/>

Yashin was survived by wife [[Valentina Timofeyeva|Valentina Timofeyevna]] and daughters Irina and Elena;<ref name="Лев Иванович Яшин" /> when Russia hosted the [[2018 FIFA World Cup]], Valentina was still living in the Moscow apartment that the Soviet state had given her husband in 1964.<ref name=Jennings>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/yashin |title=Yashin |first=Patrick |last=Jennings |website=[[BBC Online|BBC.com]] |date=7 June 2018 |access-date=2 July 2018}}</ref> Yashin has a granddaughter and one surviving grandson; another grandson died in 2002 at age 14 from injuries suffered in a bicycle accident.<ref name=Jennings/> The surviving grandson, Vasili Frolov, played as a goalkeeper in Dynamo's youth section and was on the books of the senior side,<ref>Pryakhin, Valery (19 January 2007) [http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/248111 Вратарь «Динамо» Василий Фролов, внук Льва Яшина: Бутсы деда мне великоваты] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916221007/http://www.sovsport.ru/gazeta/article-item/248111 |date=16 September 2017 }}. sovsport.ru</ref> but never played a game with the senior side, retiring from play at age 23. He now runs a goalkeeper training school in Moscow near [[FC Spartak Moscow|Spartak Moscow]]'s [[Otkritie Arena|current stadium]].<ref name=Jennings/>