Antigua & Barbuda
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Stamp picture
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First day of issue: 2004
Width: 51 mm
Height: 38 mm
Perforation: Perforated 14.25 x 14.25
Location: Ice Hockey Volume II
Stamp ID = 6242

Although best know as a soccer goal keeper, Lev Yashin, was also an ice hockey goalie.

From Wikipedia
Yashin also played ice hockey (also as a goalkeeper) and he won the Soviet Cup in March 1953. He stopped playing ice hockey in 1954 to concentrate on his football career.

Stamp was issued for the 2004 UEFA European Football Championship held from June 12 through July 4, 2004, in Portugal. Yashin is in the back row holding a ball wearing a black jersey witn no CCCP on it.



Stamp shows Lev Yashin

From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.

Antigua (1862-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 65,647 (1996). A state in association with Great Britain, comprising the island of Antigua and several smaller islands in the eastern Caribbean, southeast of Puerto Rico. Under British rule since 1632, Antigua became a separate colony in 1956. In 1967 Antigua became self-governing and became the independent state of Antigua-Barbuda in 1981.