CSKA football club goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev said which match he thought was the best in his career.
“Let him be away with Arsenal in the Champions League. Not the best in terms of gameplay, but by miracles”, — quotes the goalkeeper “Sport Express”.
The Arsenal-CSKA match was played on 1 November 2006 in London. The Champions League group stage match ended 0-0. Football players of the London club fired 14 shots at the army’s goal, seven of which hit the target.
Akinfeev is a CSKA graduate. He made his debut for the main team of Muscovites in 2003 at the Russian Cup in Zenit St. Petersburg against. He has 723 matches in total for the army club.
Together with the team, he became the Russian champion six times, won the same number of Russian Cups and became the owner of the UEFA Cup in the 2004/05 season.
Akinfeev made 111 appearances as part of the Russian national team. Together with the national team, he became the bronze medalist of the 2008 European Championship and advanced to the quarter-finals of the 2018 World Championship.
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