The famous goalkeeper of the football club "Tsska" and the Russian national football team Igor Akinfeev for a long time kept the details of his personal life a secret. For more than 6 years, Igor met with Valery Yakunichikova, 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, did everyone know that he was married! His wife - Ekaterina Gerun - an incredible beauty, model and aspiring actress.
Biography of Igor Akinfeev
Igor Akinfeev was born in April 1986 in the city of Vidnoe near Moscow. From childhood, he studied at the PFC CSKA children's and youth sports school. During his football career, Akinfeev received many awards. He is an eight-time winner of the Leader Yashin Goalkeeper of the Year Award, a five-time Russian champion, a six-time Russian Cup winner, a UEFA Cup winner, and a bronze medalist at the 2008 European Football Championship.
For his merits, Igor Akinfeev, no doubt, is loved by the whole country.
Biography of Catherine Herun
Ekaterina Gerun was born in Kiev. Thanks to her parents, she speaks Russian and Ukrainian, and she considers both to be 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 specialty.
Thanks to her excellent command of English and French, Catherine Herun was hired by a well-known film company involved in acquiring rights to foreign films and showing them to the Russian public, as well as in Ukraine and the Baltic states. Katya's duties included reading the script of a foreign film and retelling the contents to the company's management. Then the management made a decision - to rent the film or not. Also, the film company was engaged in supporting and promoting these films.
After leaving the film company, Catherine tried herself as a model and actress. She played in the video of Sergei Lazarev "Remember" in several films. She took 4th place in the contest of models "Miss-Ukraine. Universe".
Relations with Igor Akinfeev
Before the birth of his first child, the football player did not advertise that he has 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 first-born young parents named Daniel, and in September 2015 the couple had a daughter Evangeline.
Meeting parents
Ekaterina Gerun never told her parents that she was meeting with a famous football player. When she introduced Igor to her parents, her mother did not even realize that she was facing the goalkeeper known to the whole 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 the 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 have fun with the soul. On the other hand, he is capable of making important decisions, taking responsibility.
Parenting
The Akinfeev family is Orthodox. Young parents say 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 Hands Up! Sergey 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 Sergey Zhukov. Now they are friends of families, spend holidays together.
Despite the fact that Ekaterina Gerun is Ukrainian, she has already managed to fall in love with Russia, and her husband shares her love. Catherine admits that they are not attracted to the famous resorts. And they dream of going the whole family on a ship on the Golden Ring. Stop in every ancient city and slowly wander through its streets, looking around the neighborhood.
If before the life of Catherine Herun was bright and eventful, now, according to her admission, she is no less interesting. Parenting at the moment replaces her work, hobbies and, one might say, completely occupies her life. And this young mom really likes.