Former CSKA goalkeeping coach Vyacheslav Chanov believes that Vladimir Gabulov is the closest person to Igor Akinfeev.
“When we were just starting to recruit Akinfeev to CSKA’s base, he had a period of rivalry with Venya Mandrykin and I think Volodya Gabulov, who is only the second number in the future, can play enough in the first team. He had to play but he didn’t leave CSKA, not because he likes to be second under Akinfeev. For all these indicators, Gabulov was closest to Akinfeev’s bar, ”explains Chanov. Meta ratings.
Akinfeev is a CSKA graduate. In total, he has more than 500 matches for “soldiers”, 350 of which are “dry”.
Together with the team, he became the Russian champion six times, won the same number of Russian Cups and won the UEFA Cup in the 2004/05 season.
The Russian is among the 7 best goalkeepers of the 21st century in terms of the number of “dry” matches in his career.
Gabulov played for CSKA from 2004 to 2006 and 2011. As part of the Russian national team, she won the bronze medal at Euro 2008.
Formerly Valery Gazzaev Leveling Igor Akinfeev with Lev Yashin.