Nicaragua
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First day of issue: May 11, 1970
Width: 32 mm
Height: 48 mm
Perforation: Perforated 13.50 x 13.50
Printing method: Lithographed
Catalog number:
     Scott 874
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXIX
Stamp ID = 6200

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.

From the "Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue" this stamp was
Issued to honor the winners of the 1970 poll for the International Soccer Hall of Fame. Names of the players and their achivements printed in black on the back of stamps.



Stamp shows Lev Yashin

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

Nicaragua (1862-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 4,386,399 (1997). A republic in Central America.