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Akinfeev Igor VladimirovichAkinfeev Igor Vladimirovich (Russian: Игорь Владимирович Акинфеев; born 8.04.1986 in Vidnoye) is a Russian international football goalkeeperplaying in the Russian championship for CSKA Moscow. A. broke into the CSKA starting lineup at the age of 17, and has been the first-choice goalkeeper at the club ever since, gathering various honors including a UEFA Cup, three National Championships, and the Zvezda trophy, awarded to the best football player from the former Soviet Union. He is also the captain of CSKA Moscow. In his second Champions League campaign, he went 362 minutes without conceding until a F.C. Porto goal in gameweek 5. In the second part of 2009 season, it emerged as a question why A. let many shots in through his legs. Examples include strikes fromArgentina's Lisandro López, Lokomotiv Moscow's Dmitri Sychev, Wolfsburg's Grafite and Welliton of Spartak Moscow. Former Soviet international goalkeeper Anzor Kavazashvili argued this is because A. is running out from goal toward strikers at his top speed, thus denying himself a chance to react adequately or manoeuvre. A. solved this issue by altering his goalkeeping positions and this resulted in him conceding less, as well as adjusting the grips of his studs so he can control his runs. А. made his debut for Russian national team in a friendly match against Norway on 28 April 2004, aged 18 years and 20 days. He thus became third youngest player to compete for Russia after Eduard Streltsov and Sergey Rodionov and the youngest international footballer ever in history of Russian Federation. He was later included into Russian Euro 2004 squad as the third choice goalkeeper behind Sergei Ovchinnikov and Vyacheslav Malafeev. His first major competitive debut was on 30 March 2005 in a 2006 World Cup qualifier against Estonia and was later promoted as Russia's first-choice goalkeeper after a long-term injury of Malafeev. A. kept his first choice place under Yuri Semin and later Guus Hiddink. On 6 May 2007, A. suffered a knee injury in a 1–1 draw against FC Rostov which put him out of action for four months. As a result he lost his first choice position to Vyacheslav Malafeev and later Vladimir Gaboulov. He returned to the Russian national squad in early November but was deemed unfit for theEuro 2008 qualifier against Israel. A. later reestablished his first choice place for Russia for Euro 2008. Career statistics:
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