Igor Akinfeev is one of the most secretive star athletes. He does not like to tell anything about his personal life, therefore he diligently hides his wife and children from prying eyes.
For many years in a row, Igor Akinfeev has been the goalkeeper of the Russian national football team. The young man is happy to talk about sports achievements, but he prefers to keep his personal life locked up. It is known that the footballer has been married to model Ekaterina for many years. Together, the couple are raising two children - a son and a daughter.
Tragedy with a fan
If you can read a lot of interesting things about the sports career of Igor Akinfeev on hundreds of sites and hear from the football player himself, then with the personal life of a celebrity, everything is much more complicated. The young man prefers to keep it secret and even refuses to comment on any rumors that appear. This secrecy of the athlete is explained by the tragic incident in which he unwittingly became a participant.
Igor began to enjoy unprecedented popularity among female fans at a very early age. Young girls literally went crazy about the football player and, of course, tried to get in touch with him in all possible ways. Most often, the girls wrote to Akinfeev on social networks. One of the football player's fans stumbled upon Igor's fake page and frankly spoke about her feelings. The person who created it very rudely rejected the athlete's fan and uttered many unpleasant words to her. After that, the offended girl committed suicide. Akinfeev learned that she had cut her veins from the news. To this day, the young man blames himself for what happened. This terrible incident led to the fact that Igor promised to keep his personal life secret and never answer fans to their signs of attention.
Miss Universe
Ekaterina Gerun became the wife of the eminent goalkeeper. It took a lot of work for journalists to find out this information. Igor himself did not tell anyone about his relationship or about the wedding. Media representatives began to actively find out information about the athlete's family only after it became known about the birth of his first child. Previously, everyone thought that Akinfeev was still alone and started only short-term frivolous novels.
Katya was born in Kiev. After graduating from school, the girl received a higher education. But her chemistry diploma was not useful to her. The dark-haired beauty dreamed of becoming an actress, model. Gerun even represented Ukraine at the Miss Universe contest, but took only fourth place in it. Akinfeev himself today likes to joke on this topic. He says that he married Miss Universe herself, but does not disclose any other details.
Strong character and perseverance helped the girl achieve her goal. Her photographs have appeared many times in popular men's magazines. Catherine starred in clips of stars and even received small film roles. The girl really wanted to continue developing her career and did not even think about marriage. But the meeting with Igor changed everything. Gerun does not hide that she was previously confident in the limitations and stupidity of athletes. Akinfeev radically changed her opinion. From the very first meeting, the footballer captivated the girl. It was easy for Katya, it was interesting, young people could talk about everything in the world for hours on a flight.
Living together
Soon after the beginning of the relationship, Gerun decided to introduce Akinfeev to her parents. But the girl forgot to tell her relatives that a famous football player would come to their home. The girl's dad, an avid fan, was truly shocked and could not come to his senses for a long time. When the man moved away a little, the conversation went calmer, and everyone present easily managed to find a common language.
Pretty quickly, the lovers decided to get married. True, Akinfeev never reported on important changes in his life to fans and journalists. Nothing is known about how and where the wedding took place. There are not even pictures from the starry celebration.
The fact that the couple is still together can only be understood from rare photos that appear in the press and comments from the press service of the football club. Igor himself continues to persistently ignore any personal questions.
It is known that the couple live in Moscow and in 2014 their first-born Daniel was born. Soon, Catherine became pregnant again and gave her husband a daughter, Evangelina. For the sake of the children and her beloved husband, Gerun had to say goodbye forever to thoughts of an acting and modeling career. But the girl admits that she does not regret it at all. She really liked the new role of wife and mother. Catherine also does not deny that she would like to give birth to another baby. The girl is more frank with fans and more often pleases them with various news.
Gerun became a real muse, support and support for Igor. She is always on the side of her beloved spouse, is sincerely interested in his sports career, monitors achievements, rejoices in victories. Katya can often be seen next to Igor, even during his business trips abroad. The girl tries to appear at every game that is significant for her husband.
