Goalkeeper and captain of Moscow football club CSKA Igor Akinfeev report Rossiyskaya Gazeta answered the question about the possible transfer to a team from Saudi Arabia.
“Would you go to Saudi Arabia? NO. The best place to end your career is Sochi. Some play for money, some for the love of football,” he said.
Akinfeev is a graduate of CSKA. He played a total of 746 matches for the Red-Blues and 311 of them did not concede a goal. With the team he became the Russian champion six times, won the national cup seven times and won the UEFA Cup in the 2004/05 season. The goalkeeper is celebrating 20 years since his debut in top-flight football in 2023.
As part of the Russian national team, Akinfeev won a bronze medal at the 2008 European Championships.
This season, CSKA ranks ninth in the Russian Premier League (RPL) rankings with 13 points after nine weeks. In the next round, Vladimir Fedotov’s team will play at home against Kaliningrad “Baltika”.
Previously Akinfeev said About participation in the show of Dziuba and Slutsky.