Ovechkin hockey player personal. Ovechkin Alexander: biography, photo, sporting achievements
It is known to almost every resident of our country, regardless of whether he is interested in sports. What can we say about hockey fans? In such circles, Alexander is not only well known, but also deeply respected. But on a person like Mikhail Ovechkin, only the shadow of his own son’s fame currently falls, although the father also has something to be proud of regarding his own career and activities.
There is not much information about the man, but curious fans of the famous hockey player are happy to collect it bit by bit in order to get to know their idol even better - the modern legend Alexander Ovechkin. In today’s material, we would like to lift the curtain that hides from prying eyes a person, without whom the world would never have known or seen a talented and great hockey player. It's about about Mikhail Ovechkin - the father of the player and left winger of the NHL "Washington Capitals".
Mikhail Ovechkin was born into an ordinary working-class family. Since childhood, he was active and as a schoolboy fell in love with sports. Due to his parents moving to another city, Mikhail had to change more than one secondary school as a child. However, thanks to his own sociability and openness, the guy could easily find common language with new classmates.
In 1988, Alexander Ovechkin’s father, Mikhail Ovechkin, graduated from a Belarusian school with good grades and strong knowledge, which later enabled the guy to enter higher education. educational institution and get an education there.
The teenage years of the father of a famous hockey player
Mikhail’s young years were spent within the walls of the Belarusian National Technical University, which has now been renamed to the laconic BIP. Here the father of the famous legendary hockey player showed himself not only as a persistent and capable student, but also showed great promise in the path of physical education. Very soon, Mikhail Ovechkin led his university’s football team and began to improve his own playing skills. Soon the young promising player was noticed and invited to the Dynamo Moscow national team.
Looking ahead, it is worth noting the fact that Mikhail spent his entire professional career within the walls of this club, and after receiving a huge number of glorious victories, he remained here. True, the scope of his activity has changed a little - Alexander’s father Mikhail Ovechkin retrained as a coach and quite for a long time was engaged in coaching activities, sharing his experience and knowledge with the younger generation in one of the branches of the above-mentioned football club.
The footballer's chosen one
To be fair, it should be said that Mikhail’s invitation to the Dynamo (Moscow) national team changed the young man’s fate quite a lot. It is clear that, having become a professional football player, Mikhail Ovechkin was able to meet many famous and famous athletes of those years. It was thanks to the chance that fate gave him that young man I was lucky enough to meet a promising basketball player named Tatyana.
Start a family with a basketball champion
The wedding did not take long to happen, and sports circles could not get enough of the lovers, who not only looked harmonious together, but also agreed on their views on life. Perhaps it was precisely thanks to common interests and hobbies that the marriage of the parents of the legendary hockey player of our time was doomed to success and duration. He was imprisoned for life.
For the sake of fairness, it is worth noting that the wife of Mikhail Ovechkin, whose biography we are recalling today, managed to build a more successful career. She was able to conquer Europe, becoming a champion there, winning gold in Moscow and Montreal, and also receiving the title of the best point guard in the history of basketball. But all this could not break the strong married couple. The loving spouses and parents of Alexander Ovechkin are still in a happy marriage, noting that they once truly committed right choice, saying to each other in front of the altar a confident “Yes.”
Children of athletes
It's no secret that the mark on the calendar September 17, 1985 is important date for the entire sports world. It was on this day that the Ovechkin family was replenished with a son, Alexander, who is now a legend of world hockey. Alexander became the third child in the Ovechkin family. In addition to him, Mikhail and Tatyana had two more boys: Alexander Ovechkin’s brother Mikhail, named after his father, and Sergei.
Unfortunately, at the age of 25, Sergei tragically died as a result of a car accident. By the way, it was he who first brought his younger brother to the ice, always supported him and guided him. Alexander’s friends note that the hockey player took the loss of his brother quite hard, preferring to cope with his own grief alone.
Mikhail’s youngest child, and from childhood, adopted family traditions better than others and great love to sports, which helped him later build a brilliant career on a global scale, which others can only envy.
Memories of the youngest son's formative years
Mikhail Ovechkin once noted in one of his many interviews that he had known about the prospects of his youngest son for a very long time. He said that Alexander always worried about losses, and at a time when other team players could calmly joke after the game, Sasha became withdrawn and could even cry from resentment and despair. At the age of 12, at one of the tournaments, Ovechkin Jr. was able to break the record for goals himself. The latter scored 56 of them in the entire tournament, and Ovechkin was able to beat him by 3, scoring 59 goals against his opponents.
Top hockey fans
Currently, Mikhail and his wife prefer to spend time outside the city at the dacha built by Alexander. The hockey player’s father has not played football for a long time and even quit his coaching career. Although many still come to him for advice. All yours free time former professional football player Mikhail Ovechkin dedicates it with great pleasure to his children and grandchildren.
He and his wife are already accustomed to taking part in interviews and programs on popular public television channels, where they happily talk about the childhood of their famous son and about what Alexander has always been like, how he was able to achieve such heights in his own sports career.
Many people note that Mikhail is a completely simple person: kind and sympathetic. He and his wife constantly help orphanages, buying clothes, toys, and donating money to charity. Also Mikhail together with Tatyana in lately often travel and explore the world. They can easily pack up and go to another continent to be with their son and his young wife, for example, coming for a birthday or just because.
Alexander Mikhailovich Ovechkin. Born on September 17, 1985 in Moscow. Russian hockey player. Honored Master of Sports of Russia (2009).
Father - Mikhail Ovechkin, a former professional football player, played for Dynamo (Moscow).
Mother - Tatyana Ovechkina, famous Soviet basketball player, two-time Olympic champion.
He was the third child in the family, had two older brothers (the age difference between them was 13 and 15 years).
He was brought into hockey by his brother Sergei, with whom he was very close. Unfortunately, Sergei died in an accident at the age of 25 - Alexander was only 10 at the time. He took the death of his brother very hard.
I took up hockey seriously at the age of 8. The parents were against their son's passion for hockey, considering this sport too dangerous for injury. Since, due to their high employment, the parents could not accompany their son to the skating rink, Alexander at some point had to quit classes. But the coach, who recognized the talent in the guy, persuaded his parents to return Alexander to the section.
Ovechkin’s childhood idols were the leader of Pittsburgh and the legendary player of Dynamo and the USSR national team Alexander Maltsev. I supported, respectively, the Pittsburgh Penguins and Moscow Dynamo hockey clubs.
I didn’t do well at school, he said: “I studied poorly at school, what’s there to hide. The following words are not about me at all: “He managed to play sports and study excellently.” I was often late, since my training usually started at 6 a.m. And in class, instead of listening carefully to the teachers, I wrote notes to my classmates and made airplanes. And sometimes, during breaks, the girls tied me to my desk with tape and “fed” me chalk and buns from the school cafeteria. , I never skipped classes, on the contrary, I tried to study as best as possible. After all, if a bad mark appeared in my diary, I was “cruelly” punished: my parents forbade me to go to training.”
In the end, Ovechkin was invited to the Dynamo Moscow hockey school. Alexander mainly worked on power skating and wrist throwing technique. In all Dynamo children's teams he was one of the youngest, but always best player. At the age of 12, he broke the record by scoring 59 goals in the Moscow Championship. In 2000, Alexander was transferred to the adult team.
Alexander Ovechkin in Dynamo:
He made his debut in the Russian Super League in 2001, at the age of 16. In his first season, he played 22 games in which he scored 2 goals, gave 2 assists and appeared on the ice in three playoff games. In 2002, Alexander went to Slovakia for the Junior World Championship as a member of the Russian junior team, where he became the most productive player with 18 points.
At the age of 17, Ovechkin made his debut in the adult Russian national team at the Ceska Pojishtovna Cup, where he scored one goal, becoming the youngest hockey player to appear in the national team and the youngest scorer of a goal.
In the 2002-2003 season, Alexander spent his first full season for Dynamo, scoring 15 points (8 goals, 7 assists), and his club again reached the playoffs and again lost in the first round. At the 2003 draft, Ovechkin tried to get the Florida Panthers club, but the hockey player was not yet 18 years old and the deal did not take place.
IN next season Ovechkin was already one of the key players of Dynamo.
The 2004-2005 season was the last and most successful for Ovechkin during his time in the Super League. Dynamo, in which Andrei Markov, Pavel Datsyuk and Maxim Afinogenov played that season due to the NHL lockout, became the champion of Russia for the first time in 5 years. Also in 2005, Alexander won two international awards - silver at the youth world championship and bronze at the adult championship.
At the end of the season, Ovechkin's contract with Dynamo expired. Muscovites hoped to extend the agreement with the hockey player in order to get monetary compensation, in the event of a player moving to the NHL, where he was already selected by Washington in the 2004 draft. At the same time, Alexander was made a contract offer from Omsk Avangard. The Omsk team's offer, under which Ovechkin would have received $1.8 million per season, was significantly more profitable than a similar offer from Dynamo.
Ovechkin accepted Avangard's offer and signed a preliminary contract with the club. According to the rule introduced in the off-season, in order to retain the rights to a hockey player, Dynamo had to repeat the Avangard contract. Dynamo managed to do this, after which the proceedings between the clubs reached a dead end.
The situation was complicated by the fact that Avangard agreed to let Ovechkin go to the NHL without compensation, and Dynamo demanded 2 million from Washington. The hockey player also stated that Dynamo owes him wages.
Conflict named by the media "The Ovechkin Case", was to be decided in the arbitration court on August 2, 2005. But first, on July 20, Alexander announced that he would play for Washington and immediately after the end of the lockout he would sign a contract with the club.
On August 9, the court issued a verdict according to which all rights to the hockey player belong to Dynamo. Ovechkin himself said that he would not return to Moscow and would go to play overseas. After Alexander finally decided on the decision to leave for the NHL, Avangard abandoned further disputes and the representative of the Omsk team did not appear in court.
As a result, Ovechkin still left for the NHL and made his debut in Washington on October 5. “Dynamo” repeatedly expressed claims against the American club, but later a Washington court found the Muscovites’ arguments to be untenable and the “Ovechkin Case” was officially completed.
Alexander Ovechkin in the NHL:
Ovechkin made his NHL debut on October 5, 2005 in a match with the Columbus Blue Jackets, in which he scored a double and helped Washington win. Also on October 5, another promising hockey player, the first pick of the 2005 draft, Sidney Crosby, made his debut. It was he who later became Ovechkin’s main competitor for the title. best newcomer leagues.
Alexander scored points in the first 8 matches of his first season (6 goals + 4 assists), thereby setting a record for rookies. In December, he was named “rookie of the month” for the first time and by that time had already become a favorite in the fight with Crosby for the Calder Trophy. In total, in the first half of the 2005-2006 season, Alexander had 49 points (25 goals and 24 assists). Among the Russians, only Ilya Kovalchuk scored more than him.
On January 13, in a match against the Anaheim Ducks, Ovechkin scored his first hat-trick. In the next game on January 16, he scored a goal against the Phoenix Coyotes, which many journalists and fans called one of the most beautiful in NHL history.
The 2006-2007 season turned out to be less successful for Ovechkin than the previous one. He scored 92 points (46 goals, 46 assists), 14 less than last season. Alexander took 13th place in the League in points and 4th in goals scored.
For most of his third season, Ovechkin played on a line with Swedish center Niklas Bäckström, who was making his NHL debut, and Viktor Kozlov. Ovechkin and Bäckström became regular partners for many years, forming a combination of the league's best pure sniper and one of the best passers. At the end of the regular season, the forward, who scored 112 points and scored 65 goals (both results are best in the league and personal bests), received 4 individual awards - Hart Trophy, Art Ross Trophy, Lester Pearson Award and Maurice Richard Trophy."
On December 10, 2008, Ovechkin signed a new contract with Washington, which became a record in NHL history: he must play in the US capital for 13 seasons and during this period will receive $124 million - 9 million in the first 6 seasons and 10 in the next 7. Before this, the League had never concluded contracts whose value exceeded 100 million.
In the 2008-2009 season, Ovechkin again surpassed the 100-point mark and scored more than 50 goals. Alexander received the Hart Trophy, Maurice Richard Trophy, and Lester Pearson Award for the second time in a row. Ovechkin was 3 points short of receiving the Art Ross Trophy, which went to Evgeni Malkin.
On January 5, 2010, Ovechkin became the captain of Washington, replacing Chris Clark, who was traded to Columbus. Washington finished the regular season triumphantly and won the President's Cup, but failed to overcome even the first round of the playoffs, losing to the Montreal Canadiens in a 7-game clash.
The 2010-2011 season turned out to be very difficult for Ovechkin. In 79 regular season games, Alexander scored only 32 goals and earned only 85 points, which was his lowest result since the beginning of his NHL career.
The 2011-2012 season started poorly for the team, and in November coach Bruce Boudreau was replaced by Dale Hunter. Loss of contact with the players was cited as the reason for Boudreau's resignation. In January, Ovechkin received a three-game suspension for a violation against Pittsburgh player Zbynek Michalek and after that announced that he would not take part in the 2012 All-Star Game. Ovechkin finished the regular season with 38 goals and 65 points.
The 2012-2013 season began in January 2013 due to the lockout. During the lockout, Ovechkin signed a contract with Dynamo, where he spent part of the KHL regular season. Backstrom also played for Dynamo at that time. In 31 matches, the forward scored 40 (19+21) points. After the departure of the NHL team, Dynamo won the Gagarin Cup, and Ovechkin’s name was placed on the cup as part of the winners. During the regular season, Ovechkin scored points in 14 consecutive games, which at that time was a repeat of the league record.
Before the start of the shortened season, new Washington head coach Adam Oates moved Ovechkin to the position of right winger. With 32 goals in 48 matches, Ovechkin became the best sniper of the regular season, receiving his third Maurice Richard Trophy. He also made 24 assists and finished third in the scoring race with 56 points. During the playoffs, Ovechkin was injured and then played with a broken bone in his foot. At the end of the season, Ovechkin was recognized as the most valuable player of the championship and became the eighth hockey player in NHL history to receive the Hart Trophy three or more times, thus ranking with Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Bobby Clarke, Bobby Orr, Gordy Howe, Eddie Shore and Howie Morenz.
On October 25, 2013, in the tenth game of the 2013-2014 season, Ovechkin scored his tenth goal, which became his 381st goal in the NHL championships. As a result, Alexander entered the list of the 100 best snipers in the history of the league.
On November 6, 2013, he scored the thousandth point in his career (including matches of the NHL championship, Stanley Cup, performances for Dynamo and the Russian national team). Before that, only ten Russian hockey players managed to score a thousand points.
On December 21, 2013, in a match with Carolina, Ovechkin scored his 400th goal in the NHL regular championship. To achieve this result, the Russian forward needed 634 matches; only five outstanding hockey players could do it faster - Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Mike Bossy, Brett Hull and Jari Kurri.
On March 2, 2014, Ovechkin scored two goals against Boston, and as a result reached 800 points (414+386) in the regular season.
Washington began the 2014-2015 season under the leadership of new coach Barry Trotz, who again transferred Ovechkin to his usual left flank. Having finished the regular season with 53 goals, 10 goals ahead of his pursuers, Ovechkin won the Maurice Richard Trophy for the third time in a row and for the fifth time in his career. In the scorers' race, Ovechkin scored 81 points (53+28) and shared fourth-fifth place with Jakub Voracek, 6 points behind winner Jamie Benn. By becoming the season's leading scorer for the fifth time, Ovechkin equaled Maurice Richard, Charlie Conacher, Gordie Howe and Wayne Gretzky for the most winning seasons. More often, only Bobby Hull (7 times) and Phil Esposito (6 times) became the first snipers. He was named to the NHL All-Star Team for the seventh time and finished second in voting for the Hart Trophy.
On November 19, 2015, in a game against Dallas, Alexander Ovechkin scored his 9th goal of the 2015-2016 season and the 484th of his career. Thus, he broke Sergei Fedorov's record and took first place among Russian hockey players in goals in the NHL regular championships.
On January 10, 2016, in a match against Ottawa, Alexander Ovechkin scored his 500th goal in the NHL regular championships and became the 43rd in the history of the league and the first Russian hockey player to reach this mark. Ovechkin scored his anniversary goal in his 801st game; only four people in NHL history scored faster than 500 goals - Wayne Gretzky (575 matches), Mario Lemieux (605), Mike Bossy (647) and Brett Hull (693). Ovechkin scored 183 of these 500 goals from assists from his regular partner Niklas Bäckström. On January 11, 2017, Alexander Ovechkin scored a double in a game against Pittsburgh. The first goal he scored in the first minute of the match brought him his 1000th point in the NHL regular championships. Ovechkin became the 84th player in league history to score a thousand points, including fourth among Russian hockey players. By the end of the 2016-2017 season, Ovechkin overtook Alexey Kovalev and Alexander Mogilny in points and took second place among Russian hockey players, second only to Sergei Fedorov.
In the first two games of the 2017-2018 season, Ovechkin scored 7 goals (three goals in the game with Ottawa and 4 goals in the game with Montreal). Thus, Alexander repeated a century-old record and became the fourth player in NHL history to score at least 3 goals in each of the two opening matches of the season.
Conflict between Alexander Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin:
The conflict between Ovechkin and another Russian hockey player, Pittsburgh forward Evgeni Malkin, was widely discussed in the media. The first clash occurred on January 23, 2008 in the match between Pittsburgh and Washington. Ovechkin used a harsh power move against Malkin, after which he crashed into the boards with his back. During the face-off, the Russians tried to start a fight, but they were separated. After this incident, Alexander played against Evgeni with particular harshness, and Malkin himself stated that he did not know the reasons for such a rough game against him. At the end of 2008, rumors appeared that the hockey players' enmity began because Ovechkin hit Malkin's agent Gennady Ushakov in one of the Moscow nightclubs.
The hockey players did not make any harsh statements in the press, giving credit to each other’s play. Ovechkin stated that there is no conflict between them and this is the speculation of journalists.
The reconciliation of the Russians took place at the 2009 All-Star Game. At first they simply shook hands, after which Ilya Kovalchuk finally reconciled them. The next day, Malkin helped Ovechkin win one of the “SuperSkills” competitions - for the most spectacular shootout. According to Alexander’s idea, he was supposed to throw it while holding a stick in his hands, wearing a cowboy hat and dark glasses. Evgeniy lent him his hockey stick and helped him put on the rest. The reconciliation of Malkin and Ovechkin made it possible for the coaching staff of the Russian national team to consider the option of them playing on the same line at the Olympics in Vancouver.
Alexander Ovechkin in the Russian national team:
Ovechkin's first international competition was the 2002 World Junior Championships. Alexander became the best at the championship in terms of points, and the Russian team took second place, losing to the US team only in terms of the difference in goals scored and goals conceded.
In January 2003, he played for the youth team at the World Youth Championship, where he scored 6 goals and helped the team win the championship gold medal. This was Alexander's first international gold award.
In 2003, at the age of 17, Ovechkin was called up to the main team for the Ceska Pojistovna Cup. He became the youngest hockey player to appear on the first team and the youngest player on the team to score a goal. In April, Alexander participated in the Junior World Championships held in Yaroslavl. The team took 3rd place, and Ovechkin scored 13 points.
In 2004, Ovechkin took part in three international tournaments, and in two of them he represented the first team. At the World Youth Championship, the team took only fifth place, Ovechkin scored 5 goals and gave 2 assists. In the spring, he went to the Czech Republic for the senior world championship, where he became the youngest of all the players. The team performed unsuccessfully at the championship, failing to even reach the quarterfinals, and Ovechkin scored only 2 points in 6 matches. As part of the first team, Alexander also played in the World Cup, at which the Russian team also performed unsuccessfully, losing to the Americans in the quarterfinals.
At the beginning of 2005, Alexander again competed at the World Youth Championships. His result - 11 points - was third at the championship, and the team became second, losing to Canada in the final. According to the results of the championship, the Russian was named the best striker. Then, as part of the main team, Ovechkin played at the World Championships in Austria. Alexander scored 8 points, and the team became third. This was Ovechkin's first medal in a senior competition.
In February 2006, Ovechkin took part in the Olympic Games for the first time in his career. In Turin, Alexander scored 5 goals, including the winning goal in the quarterfinals against the Canadian national team, whose goal was defended by Martin Brodeur. At the end of the tournament, Ovechkin became the only Russian hockey player included in the symbolic team. The Russian team took 4th place at the Olympics. In May, Ovechkin played at the World Championships. He became the best in the team and fifth in the tournament in terms of points, having been named to the all-star team according to journalists at the end of the championship, but the team performed unsuccessfully, losing to the Czech national team in the quarterfinals.
At the 2007 World Championships, the Russian team, like 2 years ago, won bronze medals and earned many flattering reviews from the press and fans for their performance. Ovechkin, however, showed weak game, scoring only one goal in 8 matches and being remembered only by the one-match disqualification he received for injuring Swiss national team player Valentin Wirtz.
The World Championship, held in May 2008, became a triumph for the Russian team, which won its first gold in 15 years. The Russians beat the hosts of the tournament, the Canadian national team, in the final. Ovechkin, who played on the same line with his Washington partners Alexander Semin and Sergei Fedorov, became sixth in the tournament in points (12) and entered the symbolic team of the tournament.
Alexander missed the 2009 World Championship, which was also triumphant for the Russian team, due to Washington’s performance in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
At the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, the Russian team led by Vyacheslav Bykov was considered one of the favorites of the hockey tournament, but was defeated by the Canadians in the quarterfinals with a score of 3:7. Ovechkin, who was considered one of the team leaders, also failed to prove himself, scoring 4 points and being remembered only for his striking power moves. The 2010 World Cup was no more successful for Alexander and the Russian team. Despite the fact that bookmakers considered the Russians to be clear favorites, Bykov’s team lost to the Czech team in the final. Ovechkin played in 9 games and scored 6 points.
At the 2011 World Championships, Ovechkin performed unsuccessfully, not scoring a single point in several matches.
At the 2012 World Championships, Alexander became a two-time world champion. Ovechkin, along with his teammate Alexander Semin, arrived at the location of the Russian national team on May 15, after Washington was eliminated from the Stanley Cup. At the tournament, he played 3 matches, scored 2 goals and made 2 assists.
At the 2013 world championship, Ovechkin played only one game. After Washington was eliminated from the playoffs, Alexander arrived at the national team immediately before the quarterfinal match with the US team. Ovechkin took to the ice with a serious injury (fracture of the metatarsal bone of the foot), but despite this, he scored a goal, made an assist and became the best player of the match for the Russian national team. Alexander's efforts were not enough - the Americans inflicted a crushing defeat on the Russian team 8:3, leaving Zinetula Bilyaletdinov's team only in 6th place.
At the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Ovechkin, like the entire Russian team, performed unsuccessfully. Alexander scored points only in the first of five matches of the tournament: in the group stage game against the Slovenian national team, he scored one goal and provided an assist. After the end of the Olympics, Ovechkin apologized to the fans for the unsuccessful performance of the Russian team.
At the 2014 World Championships in Minsk, Ovechkin was appointed captain of the Russian team for the first time. Alexander proved himself to be a team player and leader of the team and led it to gold medals. Despite the injury received in the game against the German national team, Ovechkin participated in the decisive matches of the championship. He scored 11 (4+7) points in nine matches, and his partners in the top three, Viktor Tikhonov and Sergei Plotnikov, were included in the top three most productive players in the championship and in the symbolic team. Alexander became the first Russian hockey player to win three world championships.
He announced this on his Instagram: “I have never hidden my attitude towards our President, always openly supporting him. I am sure that there are many of us who support him.” The athlete called on supporters of the Russian leader to unite and “show everyone a strong and united” country. Ovechkin noted that recently he has often come across the expression Putin's team in the Western press - "Putin's team" - and he likes it.
Alexander Ovechkin's height: 190 centimeters.
Personal life of Alexander Ovechkin:
The hockey player’s personal life has always been the focus of media attention. Moreover, Alexander always demonstrated openness and had many high-profile novels.
In one of his interviews, he noted that he only likes Russian girls because they are close to him in spirit. “I always try to conquer a lady with gallant behavior, numerous gifts and flowers... At the same time, if I understand that a girl doesn’t like me, then I will never force myself on her. After all, as they say, you can’t be nice by force. I want to be with you to see a calm, kind, caring, interesting and, most importantly, devoted girl, preferably a blonde. I don’t mind her building her own career if she really wants it,” he said.
In 2006, he had an affair with the singer. They met on the set of the reality show “Big Race” on Cote d'Azur in France. After the singer’s death, Ovechkin came to the funeral.
Later he had relationships with other stars. He met with model, lead singer of the Black Eyed Peas group Fergie and others.
In 2011, the hockey player began dating the famous Russian tennis player Maria Kirilenko. At the end of 2012, the couple announced their engagement. However, the wedding never came: in the summer of 2014, it became known that the couple broke up, remaining friends.
In February 2015, it became known about the athlete’s affair with a model, the daughter of a famous actress.
They had known Anastasia since 2008 - they met at the Summer Olympics in Beijing, where Ovechkin was a guest, and Anastasia accompanied her father, who worked on the Olympic Committee. She was only 14 years old then. Six years later, at the end of 2014, Alexander accidentally found her on Instagram and wrote to her, asking for her phone number. “It was November 16 at 00.01. He didn’t know that it was my birthday a minute ago. From that moment on, we kept in touch, called each other, texted each other every day... In February, I flew to Los Angeles for a course acting, and as soon as Sasha had a game in this city, we met. That’s how it all started,” Shubskaya recalled.
In August 2016. And in concert hall Barvikha Luxury Village. Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a congratulatory telegram to the couple.
In August 2018 in the USA, who was named Sergei.
Ovechkin's hobby is collecting sticks with autographs of famous hockey players (his collection includes sticks of such players as Sidney Crosby, Mario Lemieux, Zdeno Chara).
Another hobby of a hockey player is cars and driving them fast.
Favorite holiday destination is Türkiye.
For music, he prefers hip-hop and R"n"B.
In addition to hockey, Ovechkin enjoys sports such as basketball and football. Favorites football clubs- Dynamo (Moscow), Barcelona and Liverpool.
Sports achievements of Alexander Ovechkin:
World Championships: 2005 - Bronze
2007 - Bronze
2008 - Gold
2010 - Silver
2012 - Gold
2014 - Gold
2015 - Silver
2016 - Bronze
In January 2008, Ovechkin signed a 13-year contract worth $124 million with Washington, becoming the first hockey player to sign a contract worth more than $100 million.
Alexander made his NHL debut in the 2005-2006 season, receiving the Calder Trophy (award for the best rookie) at the end of the first season and beating Sidney Crosby in the voting. Ovechkin won the Maurice Richard Trophy for best scorer six times, the Ted Lindsay Award and Hart Trophy (most valuable player awards) three times each, and the Art Ross Trophy (best scorer award) once.
At the end of 2009, Ovechkin was named one of the 10 best NHL players of the decade.
In January 2017, Ovechkin was included in the list of the 100 greatest hockey players in NHL history.
Alexander Ovechkin is one of three hockey players in NHL history who was able to score 50 or more goals in seven seasons.
He became the first hockey player from Russia to score 500 goals in the NHL regular championships. Ovechkin holds the record for the most goals in the NHL championships among all Russian hockey players, and ranks second in points, second only to Sergei Fedorov.
Ovechkin made his debut in the Russian national team at the age of 17, becoming the youngest player in the national team in its entire history. He participated in twelve world championships, becoming a three-time world champion (2008, 2012, 2014), and also competed in three Olympic Games (in Turin, Vancouver and Sochi).
Filmography of Alexander Ovechkin:
2010 - Zaitsev, burn! A showman's story - cameo
Ovechkin is a legend. Now for sure.
“Everything that happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” Alexander Ovechkin will have to break this rule. The happiness that the captain of the “capital” found in the city’s casino, he will take with him to Washington, then to Moscow and spread all over the world. It seems that if Ovechkin steps onto the permafrost now, the Garden of Eden will bloom in its place. You won't find a happier person, don't even try.
But before raising the cup over his head, which he had been working toward for 13 years, Ovechkin almost chewed off his gloves. The last minutes and even seconds of this amazing season dragged on for him like an eternity. Time-out, icing, throw-ins... Alexander was already painful to watch, and then the stopwatch failed, breaking at the most inopportune moment. Couldn't stand the heat.
On Ovechkin's head you will find a lot gray hair. Each of them represents the pain, disappointments, defeats that he experienced throughout his career. Starting not even from the first seasons of the NHL, but much earlier, when with the Russian youth team it was devastatingly inferior to the Canadians. A little more, and Alexander the Great’s hair would have turned ashen white, but Washington didn’t give up what it had.
We made it! Ovechkin and Washington won the Stanley Cup!
Now we have seen almost everything.
A personal camera is not such a great find. It is sometimes used in the KHL, to say nothing of the strongest league in the world. But never before has this simple, generally speaking, feature been so appropriate. Watching how Ovechkin boyishly rejoices at the goals of his Washington teammates, laments at the moments of misses and tries to hide from the whole world when Braden Holtby’s stick turns into a magic wand, was sometimes even more interesting than the game itself.
Throughout this playoffs, everyone was talking about Ovechkin’s metamorphoses. Moreover, everyone had their own version of how the best sniper of our time had changed. Some people think that he has become more of a team player and no longer thinks about personal statistics. Others note how he flattens on the ice and takes pucks flying at him, like a checker from the fourth line. After all, they say Ovechkin has lost weight. Perhaps. Although, after Brooks Orpik’s stories about the daily diet of the capital’s captain, this is hard to believe.
So how has Ovechkin changed? A little bit of everything, and at the same time, a little bit of nothing. Alexander tweaked it individual parts mechanism to become truly Great, but did not change himself. The Stanley Cup was won by the same Ovechkin who has delighted us all these 13 years, and who is imitated from the boys in the yard to the first numbers in the draft. This is still the same Sasha, but even more passionate, selfless and punchy. It was the passion with which he burned both on the ice and on the bench that resulted in this victory. This is probably its fifth element.
Washington's championship locker room. What are these guys doing?
It’s as if they were 10 years old again and won the first tournament.
2018 is becoming a landmark year for hockey in Russia. First, the national team won the Olympics in Pyeongchang, and now the most Russian, not in the number of players, but in significance and influence, the NHL team took the Stanley Cup. You can say as much as you like that our guys beat the Germans with difficulty, and the Korean Games were “not real.” In the same way, there will probably be those who will say that Washington beat not just anyone, but a rookie team in the final. But all this grumbling pales against the background of childhood happiness in the eyes of adult men.
Watching Ovechkin try to embrace the whole world, I remembered how Ilya Kovalchuk shone in the Pyeongchang locker room. Two big snipers. Players of the same generation. And both of them had won almost nothing until this year. Yes, both Ovechkin and Kovalchuk were in that same Quebec that we will never forget, but in their greatness they obtained the missing puzzles almost simultaneously. It is no coincidence that Ilya was one of the first to congratulate Ovechkin. “My brother... high,” Kovalchuk wrote on his Instagram, and there is more sincerity in these lines than you can imagine.
Ovechkin with the Stanley Cup. You can look at this forever
He's been waiting for this his whole career.
According to a long-standing tradition, the captain is the first to raise the Stanley Cup above his head, after which he passes it to his teammates. And so on in a circle. Ovechkin did the same, but it seems that if it had been his way, he would not have let go of the treasured cup. And as soon as the last Washington player made a lap of honor, the captain again took away the vessel, for which so much sweat and blood had been shed. And he rode with her, and rode, and rode... It seems that we know with whom Ovechkin will spend this night. And this is not Anastasia Shubskaya.
Calder Trophy, Art Ross, three Ted Lindsay Awards, three Hart Trophies, seven Maurice Richards. Ovechkin was probably ready to give all these individual awards for one cup. Even despite such an extortionate exchange rate. However, he did not have to make a deal with the devil. All Ovechkin's prizes remain with him. Now they can serve as a stand for the main trophy of his life. And every “Hart” and “Richard” will be confirmation that today’s success is not an accident or a flash.
He was born in Moscow into a sports family, where his mother was a basketball player who twice won the Olympics in the USSR national team, and his father was a talented football player from the capital’s Dynamo. Even as a child, Alexander enjoyed watching broadcasts on TV, not allowing him to change channels.
Start of a career
Ovechkin began attending the hockey section at the age of eight, but his parents soon decided that this sport was too dangerous for the boy, and subsequently there was no one to take Sasha to classes.
Ovechkin's future is largely obliged to older brother Sergei and the coach - after all, they were the ones who persuaded Sasha to continue playing sports no matter what, and the future star returned to training.
The first step in Ovechkin’s career was an invitation to the main team of the Moscow club Dynamo; he was considered a promising player. Already in 1987, the hockey player scored 59 goals, thus breaking the record set by Pavel Bure.
At the age of 16, Alexander becomes the youngest participant in the Super League and plays confidently with significantly older and more experienced partners.
Two years later, thanks to the goals scored, Ovechkin reaches new heights - he receives the title of “Best Sniper” of “Dynamo” for the entire existence of the club, he is invited to the Russian youth team.
Path to success
The 2004-2005 season also brought awards to the gifted hockey player - the title "Best Left Forward" for 23 goals scored and gold medal. The hockey player has always been distinguished by perseverance, the will to win and an amazing sense of purpose, which was not hampered even by injuries - Alexander spent latest games season with a shoulder bruise.
All these successes led to the fact that the talented athlete was noticed foreign agents. When the Dynamo contract was coming to an end, Alexander was going to go abroad and build a career there. In 2004, the guy was invited to the Washington Capitals, and a year later Ovechkin made his debut there as a right winger.
In a game with the Phoenix Coyotes, Ovechkin scores the most spectacular goal in NHL history. Even the Phoenix coach recognized the opponent's talent. “It was not just a goal, but a masterpiece,” he said later in an interview.
2005-2006 were brilliant, Ovechkin was awarded a prize best newcomer of the year- “Calder Trophy”, he becomes the best in points, goals and shots.
For example, a hockey player scores his first hat trick against the Anaheim Ducks“, scores five goals at the Turin Olympics, for which he receives the fair nickname “Alexander the Great” and ends up in the TOP 5 players. The next season was less successful for him, but nevertheless he became an assistant captain.
Ovechkin ranked second in Forbes in the ranking of the richest Russian celebrities.
In 2008, Washington extended the contract with Ovechkin for another 13 season, his cost of more than $120 million became a record for the NHL, and in 2010 he became team captain.
In 2011, Alexander is again on top and wins for the third time competition for the most beautiful shootout in the NHL. But Olympic Games were not so successful for Ovechkin, after which he apologized to all fans of the Russian national team.
Alexander the Great lives up to his official nickname again in 2018 when "Washington" first wins the Stanley Cup, and Ovechkin becomes the first Russian to achieve this as a captain.
Professionals note that Ovechkin’s style is aggressive; he prefers fast power hockey, and the athlete himself has repeatedly confirmed this. Because of this style of play, he often received injuries, including five broken noses.
Behind the scenes of glory
There were many rumors in the media about the athlete’s personal life; model Victoria Lopyreva and actress Zhanna Friske, as well as foreign beauties, were listed as his mistresses. Alexander himself always said that he would only marry a girl from Russia.
In 2012, it became known about her engagement to Maria Kirilenko, a famous tennis player, however, the girl broke off the relationship about two years later, after she could not come to terms with the loving nature of her chosen one. However, she assured the press that she still treats Alexander well, and they broke up without unnecessary scandals.
At 30 years old Alexander proposed to Anastasia Shubskaya, daughter of the famous actress Vera Glagoleva, the girl moved with him to Washington. The wedding was modest, and the official celebration took place on July 8, 2017. President Vladimir Putin personally congratulated the newlyweds and presented a tea set.
In addition to hockey, his main passion in life, Alexander is interested in football and basketball, and also collects hockey sticks with the autographs of famous colleagues.
Alexander Mikhailovich Ovechkin (eng. Aleksandr Ovechkin) was born on September 17, 1985, in the city of Moscow, into a family of athletes. Mother, Tatyana Nikolaevna Ovechkina, is a professional basketball player, two-time Olympic champion, world and European champion. Father, Mikhail Ovechkin, is a former professional football player. Interest in playing hockey Alexander showed this in his childhood, and at the age of eight he began playing in the hockey section. Will be invited later sports school"Dynamo".
Ovechkin first made his debut in the Russian Super League in 2001, at that time he was 16 years old. In 2002, he became the most productive player at the Junior World Championship. And in the same year he made his debut in the adult Russian national team at the Ceska Poyishtovna Cup, becoming the youngest player to appear in the national team to score a goal. In the 2003-2004 season, Alexander was a key player for Dynamo. Becoming the best left forward of the season. The next season for Alexander was the last in the Super League, but the most successful, because for the first time in five years, Dynamo became the champion of Russia.
After the 2004 -2005 season contract Alexandra Ovechkina with Dynamo ended, and after a scandal between the Dynamo and Avangard clubs, he flew overseas. Back in 2004, he was selected first overall in the draft by the Washington Capital club. At the same time, Alexander became the second Russian hockey player, after Ilya Kovalchuk, awarded such an honor.
Ovechkin played his first game in the NHL on October 5, 2005, scoring two goals, and thereby leading the team to victory. In December of the same year, he was recognized as “rookie of the month.” And in January 2006, he was twice recognized as “best player of the week” and for the second time became “rookie of the month.” In the same season, Alexander Ovechkin became the best among newcomers in terms of goals, points and shots, and third among the best forwards. He also won the title of best newcomer of the year and received an award "Calder Trophy" award - presented annually to the player who has demonstrated himself best among those spending his first full season with a National Hockey League club
The 2006-2007 season was not as successful for Ovechkin as the previous one. But still, in January 2007, he performed in the All-Star Game, and according to the results of fan voting, he was included in the top five of the Eastern Conference team. The following season, Alexander Ovechkin received four individual awards: Hart Trophy The award is presented annually to the hockey player who made the greatest contribution to the success of his team in the NHL regular season. , "Art Ross Trophy" The prize is awarded annually to the hockey player who scores the most points using the goal+pass system in the NHL regular season. , Lester Pearson Award The award is presented annually to the hockey player who made the greatest contribution to the success of his team in the NHL regular season. And "Maurice Richard Trophy" The award is presented annually to the best sniper of the NHL regular season.. But that's not all, Alexander managed to break the scoring record for wingers. And in May 2008, as a member of the Russian team, he won the World Championship (before that, the Russian team became the World Champion in 1993). At the end of this year on December 10th, hockey player signed a new contract with Washington Capital, which became a record in NHL history. The contract is designed for 13 seasons, with Ovechkin receiving $124 million over this period.
In the 2008-2009 season, Alexander received awards for the second time: Hart Trophy, Maurice Richard Trophy, Lester Pearson Award. The following season, Ovechkin becomes team captain. Like all athletes there are ups and downs, so does Alexander. The 2010-2011 season was the worst season in the entire history of his career in the USA.
Today, Alexander lives in Arlington, a suburb of Washington. I haven’t found my life partner yet, but the press has named candidates for this post many times. Alexander himself said that he would only marry a Russian girl. Besides hockey, Alexander likes football and basketball.
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