Ilya Kazakov

Since November 2016 the leader of the updated version of the program Football of Russia on the TV channel Russia-24, alternately with Vladimir Stognienko.

From September 2015 to the present — adviser to the President of the Handball Federation of Russia .

In addition to football, he covered skiing at the 2010 Olympics and the 2011 World Hockey Championship.

In 2005 he commented on all the matches of CSKA in the winning UEFA Cup, including the final from Lisbon. He conducted live coverage of the election of organizers of the World Cups in football in 2018 and 2022 and many similar ceremonies of FIFA and UEFA.

In June 2003, Ilya Kazakov switched to the newly opened sports TV channel VGTRK Sport (since 2010 it became the television channel Russia-2). Here he conducted the program Football of Russia, commented on various football matches. Commented on the matches of the World and European Championships in 2004 (from Portugal), 2006 (from Germany), 2008 (from Austria and Switzerland), 2010 (from South Africa) and 2016 (from France). He worked on the broadcasts of the championships of Russia and England, as well as matches of European soccer championships the Champions League and the UEFA Cup.

On television, Ilya Kazakov came in 1996 after winning the first competition of sports commentators, announced by the television channel NTV-Plus. Since December 2001 to June 2003 he worked on the sports TV channel Seven TV, where he conducted weekly broadcasts about the Russian Championship.

In 1989-1996 he studied at the Faculty of Energy Physics of Moscow Power Engineering Institute. In February 1996 he graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute with a degree in thermal engineering, worked for six months in the specialty in RKK Energia.

lya Arkadievich Kazakov (Russian: Илья́ Арка́дьевич Казако́в ); August 3, 1972, Kaliningrad, Moscow Oblast) is a Russian football commentator, TV presenter, journalist and former press attaché of the Russian national football team (2005-2015).