Goalkeeper CSKA Akinfeev Biography

In four and a half years, his father took a little boy to an army football playpen to his friend coach Desidary Kovachu. Incredibly, after the first viewing, Kovach told Akinfeev’s parents: “In the future, this is a player of the main composition”! And a year later, it will make his debut in the main composition of the army. In the Premier League, he played the first match on May 31 on the exit against the Wings of the Soviets.

The army team won - and he himself reflected the penalty in the last minutes of the meeting. In the year, Akinfeev debuts in the Russian team, becoming one of the youngest goalkeepers in the history of the national team. A year passes, and Igor becomes an unconditional number in the national team. The recognition of the merits of our players before the country after the triumph in the European arena will be expressed a little later in the delivery of the orders of friendship.

However, the army goalkeeper began the army in a good uniform and regained the first number in the Russian team, and was also appointed captain of the army.

In the same year, Igor became the youngest goalkeeper of Russia, who played the matches “to zero”, and at the euro turned out to be the best goalkeeper in the number of reflected blows. In m, he once again becomes the owner of the Russian Cup and Super Bowl, and in M ​​he wins another Cup of the country. Soon after, in August, our goalkeeper receives another damage to the PKS, but in an interview with the official club television program “Planet CSKA” promises “to return to the field even stronger than that was before” and keeps his promise.

In M, the Army team, led by its captain, mines all three Russian football trophies for the fans, and he himself admits the best football player of the year according to the RFU and for the seventh time in his career receives the Prize of the Gates of the Year named after Leo Yashin, awarded by the magazine "Ogonyk". In the summer of the same year, our goalkeeper raises the sixth super -cap of the country above his head.

In subsequent seasons, our captain invariably spoke at a familiar high level. One by one, the records of outstanding domestic goalkeepers fell - Lev Yashin in the number of dry matches in the championship of the country and Rinat Dasaev in the number of matches and dry matches for the national team. The dramatic denouement of the tournament happened in the last round in Kazan - the army in the case of an misfire overthrew Rostov, which easily dealt with Terek, while the army, on the contrary, met Rubin's fierce resistance.

Such double saves, as our captain made in a minute after the blows of Igor Portnyagin and Denis Tkachuk, are forever in history and are remembered by fans even after decades. Thanks to these magnificent salvations, the army team managed to keep an account and win the next “gold” of the Russian championship. Igor Akinfeev is the author of the book “Penalty from readers”, which was written in collaboration with comrades of a player from the press service of the PFC CSKA and has already withstood a reprint.

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