Ovechkin photo biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. He is technical, fast and incredibly accurate, his tough contact game, which is more than once criticized, brings him to the teams of victory, and his signature “toothless” smile made not one girl be interested in hockey.

But what kind of person is this talented hockey player? How did his life flow out outside the playground, and in which way did he come to professional sport? A detailed story about the life and the fate of one of the best attackers of the planet read below. The early years, childhood and family of Alexander Ovechkin Sasha Ovechkin was born on September 17 in the family not hockey, but sports.

In her track record includes many matches for the national team of the Soviet Union and the title of double winner of the Olympic Games. During almost all of his professional career, he performed as part of the Dynamo football team, Moscow, with which he managed to achieve many glorious victories. Remembering his childhood, Alexander Ovechkin repeatedly admitted that it was the sports careers of his parents who became an example for him and ultimately brought to professional sports.

The parents of Alexander Ovechkin were outstanding athletes as the hockey player’s father recalled, Alexander was the first passion of Alexander. During the rest in the village of Tatyana's parents, an independent 5-year-old baby put on a hat, picked up a fishing rod and, together with her grandmother's shepherd, went to catch fish. And at the age of 8, Sasha suddenly erupted the love of hockey.

It was like this: Mikhail watched on TV a match of the Dynamo HC with a little -known team. The game went sluggishly, and the man switched to another channel, which is why Alexander rolled hysteria. I had to return hockey to the screen, and until the end of the match, the boy, who did not even know the rules of the game, spun the players' actions. Alexander Ovechkin plays hockey from 8 years after this incident Mikhail took his son to the familiar Dynamo coach Alexander Filippov.

He refused: Alexander alone trained for several years, and Ovechkin did not even know how to stand on skates! As a result, Sasha went to the group in the coach Vyacheslav Kirillov. And although he had to learn basic skills from scratch, a year later he washed into the leaders of the youth team. Young Alexander Ovechkin and his childhood friend Nikita when Alexander was 10, a tragedy occurred in the family.

His summer brother Sergey was accidental and died because of a torn blood clot. He always supported Alexander in his passion for hockey, and then the young man gave himself a vow that he would perform on the ice for both of them. At the age of 12, the team of Alexander entered the ice against Vimpel. Before that, one of the coaches told the boy that Pavel Bure at this age had 56 goals at the Moscow Championship.

Ovechkin at that time was a little less - Sasha entered the rage and scored 6 goals for that significant match, breaking the children's record of Bure. The hockey career of Alexander Ovechkin after that there were many more bright matches and game achievements. Seeing the progress of the young player, the bosses of the Moscow Dynamo included a promising striker in the main team.

In the year, Alexander first fell into the application for the match of the Russian Super League. A year later, he became the main player of the Dynamo Moscow HC. The stunning goal of Ovechkin at the Junior World Cup in the same year Summer Ovechkin, who had previously prevailed in the youth championship of the planet, debuted in the Russian national team under the leadership of the coach Viktor Tikhonov Cubes Cheski Poisysteovna.

He managed to score a goal against the opponent’s goal and thereby become the youngest player that has ever entered the ice as part of the main team of Russia, and the youngest hockey player who scored the puck as part of the main team. By that time, Glory about him as a rising star of hockey spread beyond Russia. At that time, the transition to transition to the strongest league of the planet broke.

However, already during this period it became clear that a talented young player would not stay in the Russian Super League for a long time. In the end, it happened. The young hockey player planned to play for the American club in the same fall, but his plans violated the locout. By the way, that year became incredibly successful for the club - for the first time in 5 years, he became the champion of Russia.

Ovechkin took part in ten matches of the playoffs, and broke his own record for glasses, despite the injury of shoulder. At the end of the Lokout, Ovechkin concluded a contract with the Washington team. During the match, he managed to make a double and bring a victory to the team. Ovechkin, on the day of his debut in the NHL, hopes of the club’s leadership, assigned to the Russian player, justified from the very first matches.

Of the Russians, only Ilya Kovalchuk earned more for that season. According to the results of the winter games, he became one of the best players of 6 points and was included in the symbolic team, but the team was left without a prize. In May, Ovechkin was called to the Russian team. For the team, this year became triumphal: for the first time in 15 years, she took the “gold”, winning the mistress of the tournament - Canada.

Ovechin missed the next world championship because of participation in the Stanley Cup.The World Hockey Championship in Quebec in December of the year Ovechkin signed a new contract with Washington Capitals. At the beginning of the year, Ovechkin became the captain of the team instead of Chris Clark, who had left for Columbus. The personal life of Alexander Ovechkin, the name of the famous hockey player constantly flashed in the headlines of the overseas press in connection with various loud novels.

So in different years, journalists attributed to the Russian love relations with such famous beauties as Victoria Lopyreva, Jeanne Friske and even Fergie soloist Black Eyed Peas. How true these rumors are is difficult to judge. For a long time, the hockey player met with the famous Russian tennis player Maria Kirilenko. However, in the middle of the year, the press service of the hockey star announced their gap.

A little later, Maria gave an interview in which she said that she was tired of putting up with “certain habits of Alexander” and wishes him happiness in a further career. Rumors spread in the media that the hockey player’s affair with the summer gymnast Karolina Sevostyanova was to blame. They met at the Beijing Olympics, but for a long time did not maintain relations. In the girl nearly drowned in Dubai and told about the incident to the subscribers of her personal blog.

Among them was Ovechkin. Concerned about Nastya’s state, he decided to support her personally. So their stormy romance began, ending with a magnificent wedding. The celebration took place in July. Alexander Ovechkin was married to Anastasia Shubskaya Alexander Ovechkin now in the year Ovechkin received two major gifts from fate: his team won the Stanley Cup, and his young wife Anastasia was pregnant.

Alexander Ovechkin became a father.