Until recently, Alexander Ovechkin was considered an enviable groom, not only in our country, but also abroad. He was equated with men for whom nothing is impossible, with those who can do anything. The personification of strength, power, glory, greatness and full compliance with the concept of "real man" - these are all the qualities that endowed the great athlete of our time. He was credited with a huge number of romantic relationships, they tried to discern a chosen one in every girl with whom Alexander appeared at social events or spent time in ordinary life. That was until 2012, because it was then that the hockey player seemed to have settled down and began to devote all his free time to one girl.
Maria Kirilenko and Alexander Ovechkin at that time were at everyone's hearing. Sports fans have predicted a long, happy future for the couple. However, everything went to this: the athletes even announced their engagement, looked in love and prepared for the upcoming celebration. But the news of their separation came to the fans like thunder from a clear sky. Some of them still wonder: why did Maria Kirilenko and Alexander Ovechkin break up? In today's article, we will try to figure this out, and along the way, recall the romantic love story of two leaders of modern Russian sports.
Acquaintance
The first racket of the world in 2013 and an internationally recognized hockey player met in 2011 during a warm-up before the US Open tennis match in New York. Alexander simply went to Masha, introduced himself and picked up her phone. After that, SMS correspondence ensued. Alexander says that it is impossible to imagine all the number of sent and received SMS messages that young people exchanged throughout the entire time of communication. The romance began immediately after meeting, and since 2011, the couple began to officially meet, without hiding from anyone and not hiding their feelings.
Love at first sight
Alexander Ovechkin and Maria Kirilenko in Russia were compared with a beautiful couple of David Beckham and Victoria Adams. Many sports fans were confident in the positive outcome of their relationship, because Alexander himself always spoke about his intentions with respect to the girl. According to Maria Kirilenko, she and Sasha immediately had love. They both went in for sports and therefore understood each other’s feelings from a half look.
Alexander scored goals, and in the stands or on TV his girlfriend was rooting for him. This gave him even more strength and strengthened love. The athlete posted his photos with his beloved in social networks. He was proud of her and called "my queen."
Serious step
At the celebration of the new 2012, when the families of Alexander Ovechkin and Maria Kirilenko gathered together, the hockey player prepared a surprise for his chosen one. According to his own stories, he acted like a real gentleman: he knelt down and solemnly in the presence of his parents offered his hand and heart to Mary. Then the young man put a ring on her finger. Kirilenko admitted that the engagement was a big surprise for her parents. By and large, none of those present, except for the heroes of the occasion, was ready for such a serious step on the part of the titled athletes.
When to arrange the wedding of Alexander Ovechkin and tennis player Maria Kirilenko?
After the engagement, Alexander again went to the United States to play hockey for his Washington Capitals club, and Maria flew to Australia to participate in the 2012 Australian Open tennis tournament. The celebration of the marriage of athletes, it was decided to postpone until the schedules of both young people at least a little match in terms of vacation. It is clear that a wedding with such a prospect would have to wait a long time.
The season in the NHL, where Alexander plays, ends in the summer, so the hockey player planned to formalize the relationship immediately after it ended. And tennis player Maria Kirilenko, on the contrary, should participate in the main matches of the tennis season in the summer. If she refused to participate, she would have lost a lot of points in the world ranking of tennis players, and would also miss the chance that all serious athletes aspire to.
It is with such problems that lovers faced. Alexander probably expected from Mary that she would give up her sports career for the sake of her family: she would marry him and live with him in the USA, where he plays hockey under contract. But no one has the right to demand such a person who has been striving to become the first in sports all his life. Moreover, Ovechkin himself knows how complicated the path to success and general recognition is.
Checking relationships by distance and gossip
Alexander Ovechkin and Maria Kirilenko were on different continents and were each busy with their sports career. Soon rumors spread that there would be no wedding at all, because the famous hockey player got himself a new passion in the USA while his fiancé practiced and played tennis in Russia. In 2014, Maria Kirilenko announced that she was breaking off her relationship with Ovechkin. She commented on her statement so that she respects Alexander as an athlete, but their romance is over, there will be no wedding. Maria did not publicly explain the reasons for the gap, only hinting that she was tired of the distance, the behavior of her ex-fiancé and his peculiar habits. But recently, the relationship of Maria Kirilenko and Alexander Ovechkin, photos of which can be seen in the article, the young man was seen in the company of another athlete - gymnast Karolina Sevastyanova. The tennis player herself denied this connection, but such a reason for the gap is possible, because even before meeting Maria, Alexander Ovechkin had many novels with the most beautiful, famous and popular girls.
