Ekaterina Gerun and Igor Akinfeev

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The famous goalkeeper of the football club "CSKA" and the Russian national football team Igor Akinfeev kept the details of his personal life a secret for a long time. For more than 6 years, Igor met with Valeria Yakunichikova, the daughter of the head of the CSKA football team. But the couple broke up, for unknown reasons. And only in May 2014, after the birth of the first-born football player, everyone found out - he is married! His wife - Ekaterina Gerun - is an incredible beauty, model and aspiring actress.

Biography of Igor Akinfeev

Igor Akinfeev was born in April 1986 in the town of Vidnoye near Moscow. From childhood, he studied at the PFC CSKA youth sports school. During his football career, Akinfeev received many awards. He is an eight-time winner of the Lev Yashin Goalkeeper of the Year award, five-time champion of Russia, six-time winner of the Russian Football Cup, winner of the UEFA Cup, bronzemedalist of the European Football Championship 2008.

For his merits, Igor Akinfeev, no doubt, loves the whole country.

Biography of Ekaterina Gerun

Ekaterina Gerun was born in Kyiv. Thanks to her parents, she speaks Russian and Ukrainian and considers both native. Since childhood, Katya Gerun dreamed of becoming a chemist and even entered the Kharkov Medical Academy. She liked to study, but still she did not work in her speci alty.

Thanks to her excellent command of English and French, Ekaterina Gerun was hired by a well-known film company that acquires the rights to foreign films and shows them to the Russian public, as well as in Ukraine and the B altic states. Katya's duties included reading the script of a foreign film and retelling the content to the company's management. Then the management decided whether to rent the film or not. The film company also supported and promoted these films.

After leaving the film company, Ekaterina tried herself as a model and actress. She played in Sergey Lazarev's video "Remember", in several films. Took 4th place at the Miss Ukraine. Universe model contest.

Relationship with Igor Akinfeev

Before the birth of his first child, the football player did not advertise that he had a wife, Katerina Gerun. The wedding took place under a veil of secrecy. Wedding photos did not get into the press and on the Internet. The young parents named their first child Daniel, and in September 2015 the couple had a daughterEvangeline.

Meet the parents

Ekaterina Gerun never told her parents that she would meet with a famous football player. When she introduced Igor to her parents, her mother did not even realize that she was facing a goalkeeper known throughout the country.

Ekaterina's parents immediately drew attention to the positive qualities of Akinfeev - prudence, seriousness, attentiveness, and the absence of bad habits. These same qualities attracted his future wife in him. After all, on the one hand, as Katya admits, it's great that they are the same age - sometimes you can have fun and fool around from the heart. On the other hand, he is able to make important decisions, take responsibility.

Parenting

The family of the Akinfeevs is Orthodox. Young parents say that they will instill Orthodox traditions in their children. As a result, the choice of faith will, of course, be up to the children themselves, but Igor Akinfeev and Ekaterina Gerun consider it right to explain to them all the details of Orthodox culture.

Also, Igor Akinfeev is the godfather of the daughter of the soloist of the group "Hands up!" Sergei Zhukov. Zhukov has long been, since 2007, a close friend of Igor. Akinfeev since childhood loves the work of the group "Hands up!" and even recorded a song together with Sergei Zhukov. Now they are family friends, spend holidays together.

Despite the fact that Ekaterina Gerun is Ukrainian, she has already fallen in love with Russia, and her husband shares her love. Ekaterina admits that they are not attracted by famous resorts. Andthey dream of going with the whole family on a ship trip along the Golden Ring. Stop in every ancient city and slowly wander through its streets, taking in the surroundings.

If earlier the life of Ekaterina Gerun was bright and eventful, now, according to her confession, it is no less interesting. Raising children at the moment replaces her work, hobbies and, one might say, completely occupies her life. And the young mom really likes it.