A player playing as a goalkeeper will not win the Ballon d’Or in the next 50 years, says CSKA goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev on .
In the entire history of the prestigious Ballon d’Or, only one goalkeeper has received it – Lev Yashin in 1963.
— We are missing the Ballon d’Or for a goalkeeper after Lev Yashin.
– I think that this will not happen in the near future, because the whole race will be played out between the players on the ground.
It seems to me that the goalkeeper should have had a separate topic a long time ago. A separate award. It exists in some way, but we need to create something like the “Ballon d’Or”, a kind of “Golden Glove” or “Golden Ball” for the goalkeeper. It is now very difficult for a goalkeeper to win the regular Ballon d’Or.
– Do you really need to stand out?
– Don’t even stand out. You mustn’t miss anything at all, pull out all the “nines” and “sixes” and do everything that goes with it. And then, I don’t know if they’ll pay attention to you or not. My guess is that the goalkeeper will be fifty in the next few years. [приз] “Nobody will do it,” Akinfeev said in an interview with Dmitry Guberniev on .
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