Famous sports journalist and commentator Vasily Utkin, telegram channel He touched on the words of CSKA President Evgeny Giner about the superiority of Igor Akinfeev over Rinat Dasaev and Lev Yashin.
“It is not difficult to name the achievements of Yashin and Dasaev, which Igor failed and cannot repeat. He was not and will not be recognized as the best goalkeeper in the world like Dasaev, and he certainly will not win the Golden Ball like Yashin. To each their own time. “What’s the point of comparing each other and creating resentment?” Utkin said. he wrote.
As part of the USSR national team, Dasaev won a silver medal at the 1988 European Championships, as well as a bronze medal at the 1980 Olympic Games. He received the “World’s Best Goalkeeper” award in 1988.
Lev Yashin is the only goalkeeper in football history to win the Golden Ball.
With CSKA, Akinfeev became the Russian champion six times, won the national cup seven times and won the UEFA Cup in the 2004/05 season. As a member of the Russian national team, he won a bronze medal at the 2008 European Championships held in Austria and Switzerland. In 2018, Akinfeev reached the 1/4 finals of the world championship on home soil with the Russian national team.
Previously Akinfeev statedOn my first day at CSKA, I didn’t leave my room and thought in the sink.