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Igor Leshchuk
Igor Alekseyevich Leshchuk (Russian: Игорь Алексеевич Лещук; born 20 February 1996) is a Russian football player who plays as goalkeeper for FC Dynamo Moscow. Club careerHe made his debut in the Russian Professional Football League for FC Dynamo-2 Moscow on 28 August 2016 in a game against FSK Dolgoprudny.[2] He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Dynamo Moscow on 10 August 2019, when he had to come in for injured Anton Shunin in a game against FC Zenit Saint Petersburg.[3] He started the next 6 games as Shunin was recovering (including 2 clean sheets) and won the Dynamo fans' vote for "player of the month" for August 2019.[4] On 30 August 2021, he signed a new four-year contract with Dynamo.[5] After another Shunin injury in September 2021, he kept clean sheet in 3 consecutive games and was voted as player of the month once again.[6] On 15 March 2023, Leshchuk saved two penalty kicks in the shootout to eliminate Russian champions Zenit St. Petersburg from the Russian Cup.[7] He was voted player of the month by Dynamo fans for the third time for October 2023.[8] On 18 January 2024, Leshchuk extended his contract with Dynamo to 2028.[9] On 2 December 2024, Leshchuk scored a late added-time equalizer in a 1–1 away draw against Akhmat Grozny, with a header after a corner kick.[10] He became only the second goalkeeper in the history of the Russian Premier League (which was originally organized under a different name in 1992) to score a goal after Andrei Novosadov in 2001, and the first to not score it from a penalty kick (like Novosadov did).[11] Before the breakup of the Soviet Union, best Russian clubs participated in the Soviet Top League, and on all occasions in that league when goalkeepers scored a goal, it was from a penalty kick.[12] Thus Leshchuk became the first ever goalkeeper in the history of Russian football to score a non-penalty-kick goal in a top-tier club league. Career statistics
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