Igor Akinfeev

Igor Akinfeev earns a special kind of respect from me. A one-club goalkeeper who has made more than 800 appearances for CSKA Moscow, he embodies a loyalty that feels almost extinct in modern football. I still vividly recall his outstretched foot denying Spain in the 2018 World Cup shootout, a moment of pure instinct from a keeper built on reliability rather than spectacle. At 186 centimeters with sharp reflexes, he was always more about trust than flash. Players whose careers are defined by devotion and consistency, rather than transfers and headlines, are the ones I find most admirable, and he is one of them.

Name (English)

Igor Akinfeev

Name (Japanese)

イゴール・アキンフェエフ

Reading

いごーる・あきんふぇえふ

Born

April 8, 1986 (age 40)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Tiger

Origin

Vidnoye, Moscow Oblast, Russia

Height

186 cm

Occupation

association football player

Awards & achievements

• 2006 Order of Friendship
• 2005 Honoured Master of Sports of Russia
• 2018 Order of Honour

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/igor_igor_akinfeev/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor%20Akinfeev
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B4%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A8%E3%83%95
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q203002

Tags

• Moscow Oblast
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-20

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