Hockey player Ovechkin Alexander: biography, photo

Ovechkin Alexander (biography, personal life of the athlete is presented below) - one of the most famous hockey players of our time. He is the first player to sign a contract worth more than $ 100 million. Five times he managed to score 50 goals for the season and four times to gain more than 100 points. In 2014, Alexander was recognized as the top scorer of the Washington Capitals. This article will describe a brief biography of the hockey player.

Childhood

Ovechkin Alexander (photo below) was born in 1985 in Moscow. He became the third child in the family. Mom of the future hockey player Tatyana was the Olympic champion in basketball. And Father Michael professionally played football for Dynamo (Moscow).

The love for hockey appeared in Sasha at the age of two. He went with his mother to the toy store and noticed the equipment in the window. Alexander did not leave it until he was bought the whole kit. Six years later, the boy was brought to the hockey section by brother Sergei. And the parents actively resisted this. This was the main reason for Sasha's departure from the section. But one of the coaches saw the potential in the boy and persuaded his parents to bring him back to the ice.

The favorite teams of the young athlete were Dynamo Moscow and Pittsburgh Penguins. Also Ovechkin appeared idols - Alexander Maltsev and Mario Lemieux.

After the section, the hero of this article entered the hockey school "Dynamo". Here, Alexander broke Pavel Bure 's record , scoring 59 goals in the Moscow Championship. In 2000, young talent was transferred to the adult "Dynamo".

Carier start

At 16 Ovechkin Alexander, a photo of which was already periodically flashed in the sports media, made his debut in the Super League (Russia). In the first season, the hockey player scored 2 goals and played 22 games. In 2002, the athlete in the junior team went to Slovakia for the World Cup. There Ovechkin became the best beginner, gaining 18 points.

A year later, Alexander was already a part of the main Russian team at the tournament "Ceska Poyishtovna." 17-year-old Ovechkin set there immediately 2 records:

• As the youngest goal-maker;
• As the youngest athlete in the national team.

In 2003, Alexander tried to buy in the NHL, but the deal did not take place, since the player was underage. In the 2004/2005 season, the young athlete became a key player in the Dynamo. After 53 games, he decided on his role in the team, became the best left attacker.

Moving to the USA

In 2004 Ovechkin Alexander, whose biography is now known to all hockey fans, was chosen in the draft under the first number. But in the NHL there was a lockout, so he had to stay in the "Dynamo".

In 2005, there was uncertainty: Ovechkin's contract with the team came to an end. Of course, the management of Dynamo wanted to extend it to receive compensation in case of Alexander's departure to the NHL. Also, the athlete was offered an advantageous cooperation Omsk Avangard. It was with this club that the young man entered into a preliminary contract. However, Dynamo managed to extend its contract with the player, and the situation became dead-end. There was one more problem: "Vanguard" released Ovechkin to the Washington Capitals without any compensation, and blue and white required $ 2 million. In addition, the "Dynamo" did not pay the hero of this article a salary.

As a result, Ovechkin Alexander, whose growth will be listed below, went to the United States. And the Russian court ruled that the athlete must remain in the "Dynamo". But this decision, like the club's claims for compensation, was rejected by an American judge. In general, this "battle" won the National Hockey League and a young athlete.

NHL

George McFee (manager of the Washington Capitals) immediately decided to build a game around Ovechkin. Before Alexander, this club used the same strategy against Jaromir Jagr. The Russian was assigned the maximum salary for the debutant - $ 4 million, taking into account bonuses. In the NHL, Ovechkin immediately had a rival - Sidney Crosby. It was with him that the athlete fought for the prestigious "Calder Trophy" award and managed to win in the end.

From the first matches hockey player Ovechkin Alexander, whose biography is full of vivid sports events, fully justified McFee's hopes. The young man scored goals, made assists and scored points. In the first season, Alexander earned 49 points. More was only Ilya Kovalchuk.

Masterpiece

In the game against the "Phoenix Coyotes" Alexander scored one of the most beautiful goals in the history of the NHL. After the push of one of the opponents, he managed to make a punch with a stick in the fall. The Phoenix trainer Wayne Gratsky exclaimed: "This is not a goal, it's just a masterpiece!"

Record contract

In 2007, the forward played in the Star Match for Vostok. The excitement around Ovechkin significantly affected his game. The hockey player was nervous and in the shootout contest did not break Roberto Luyongo's defense. Also Alexander showed the worst time in a match for speed.

Nevertheless, in the following season, the Washington Capitals signed a record contract with Ovechkin. For 13 seasons, the forward received $ 124 million. In the NHL this was the first such case.

Criticism

In the 2008/2009 season, the Washington Capitals reached the semifinals, where they lost to the penguins. After some time Ovechkin was criticized by the popular Canadian journalist Don Cherry. And then the representative of the media had a good reason.

After the scoring goal, Bekstrom, Green, Theodore and Ovechkin were supposed to demonstrate the trick: Alexander throws a stick on the ice, and his colleagues show that it's hot. But after a tight goal the team's partners were not there, and the forward played the pantomime in solitude. Experts and journalists did not appreciate his acting skills. And Cherry wrote that Ovechkin was like the idiots of soccer, who celebrate goals scored with cretin's antics. The majority of fans also considered such acts a bad example for their children. After that, the coach asked the hockey player to show less emotion on the ice. And the forward agreed.

Captain of the Washington Capitals

In 2009 Ovechkin Alexander, whose biography should become an example of imitation for beginning hockey players, headed his team. After 30 days, the forward scored more than 500 points. Unfortunately, the Washington Capitals could not win the Stanley Cup. The team flew out of the championship in the first round of the playoffs. But Americans and Canadians increasingly called the hero of this article Alexander the Great.

By the end of 2013, the hockey player had 11 personal NHL awards. Among Russian athletes this is the best result. Also, the forward crossed the line of 1000 points, got into the TOP-100 of the best snipers and won the fourth Trophy. But, unfortunately, the team itself did not help. The team did not reach the playoffs and became the ninth in the East. On Alexander, a barrage of criticism for a bad game in defense and weak leadership qualities.

The beginning of the season 2014/2015 Ovechkin left uneven. A series of continuous goals gave way to the fact that the hockey player could not earn points for five consecutive games (the first case in his career). Then Alexander scored in just three games, only 7 points. But at the end of the season, he made up for lost time, becoming the team's top scorer.

Team play

Alexander Ovechkin, whose biography is in many sports encyclopedias, speaks not only for the Washington Capitals. He does not forget about the national team. In 2006, the athlete went to the national team for the Olympic Games in Turin. Alexander himself performed perfectly (scored 6 points - assists and 5 goals), but the team did not reach the prizes. But the next year the team won bronze at the World Cup. This time it was the other way round: Ovechkin was scolded for injuring an opponent, a weak game and disqualification. And the team was praised. But at the World Cup-2008 (Canada), everyone distinguished themselves. The hero of this article took the sixth place in the ranking, and the national team won gold medals.

Variable successes

The next world championship Ovechkin Alexander (biography, personal life of the athlete is regularly discussed in the yellow press) missed. But in 2010 I went to the Olympics. But the game in Vancouver did not work out. The national team managed to reach only the quarterfinals, where it lost to the Canadians. Many remembered then the firm power receptions of Alexander.

The athlete played the foul at the 2010 World Cup and World Cup 2011. His failures, he compensated in 2012, taking gold and becoming already a two-time world champion. And in 2013, the forward of "Washington" came out on the ice with an injury. Alexander did everything he could, but the Russian team took only 6th place, losing to Americans with a score of 3: 8.

The Olympics in Sochi also failed. But the national team was able to win back in Minsk at the 2014 World Cup. Ovechkin was appointed captain. And this was the right decision: in the end, Russia is a winner, and Alexander is a three-time world champion. That year the hockey player became the most popular sportsman in Russia.

Ovechkin Alexander: height, weight

These parameters of the hockey player are interesting to many fans. In most sources, the following figures are presented: the height of the athlete is 190 centimeters, and the weight is 100 kilograms.

Personal life

Ovechkin, 30, is single. And the forward himself assures others that his wife will be only a girl from Russia. The media periodically recorded in the friends of the hockey player Jeanne Friske, Victoria Lopyreva and Fergie.

Since 2011, the forward met with the famous athlete Maria Kirilenko. It came to the betrothal. But on the initiative of the girl, they broke up in the summer of 2014. Then there was a short-lived affair with gymnast Karolina Sevastyanova.

Anastasia Shubskaya is the name of the girl Ovechkin Alexander is meeting at the moment. Photo with his wife (potential), he periodically puts in his instagram. Anastasia also does not fall behind him. Recently a very eloquent snapshot appeared on Shubskaya's page. On it the girl sits together with Alexander in the restaurant, and on her ring finger adorns a ring with a large diamond. Most likely, this photo of Anastasia hinted at the engagement. It is likely that in the near future the hockey player will finally lose his bachelor status.

Now Ovechkin Alexander, whose biography is presented above, lives with his parents in Arlington (a suburb of Washington). Mom is his agent, and the father is assembling sports video. After his son's career is over, they plan to return to Russia.