Coach Sergei Ovchinnikov sees CSKA goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev as a football official in the future. His words are quoted kp.ru.
He himself says that he will not be a coach. I think he will be a great functionary in football. He deserves it, it will be interesting for him as far as I can imagine. No, of course, he can be a coach if he wants. But I don’t think it will come to this point.
A goalkeeper’s career is a great stress. I spent the last five years of my career dreaming of a day when I wouldn’t have to go to training and games. And here you just finished – and the coach. Another stress,” Ovchinnikov said.
Akinfeev is a graduate of CSKA. In total, he played more than 750 matches for the red-dark blue team. 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 celebrated the 20th anniversary of his debut in adult football in 2023.
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 quarter-finals of his home world championship with the Russian national team.
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