Tatyana Ovechkina, two-time Olympic basketball champion, mother of a hockey player Alexandra Ovechkina In an interview with , he said that his grandchildren Ilya and Sergei love to play hockey and are similar to their father in their mental qualities.
In 2018, a son, Sergei, was born in the family of Alexander Ovechkin and Anastasia Shubskaya, and two years later, a second son, Ilya, was born.
“Seryozha plays hockey, and I take him to training myself. And every day! Seryozha still trains individually. And now the youngest grandson, Ilyushka, has started skating. He’s doing pretty well too. They like it, they do their job – and very well.
— Do they look like Alexander when he was little?
– Of course they look alike! Just as determined and persistent.
— Are you going to train at Arlington, where the Washington training base is located?
– The ice there is not very good, so we train only here – we take a coach every day and train. We understand that this is necessary. Because the guys who train in winter and summer, in autumn and spring, of course, already skate very well. But we are catching up with them little by little, and it works just as well.
— Is there a chance that three Ovechkins will play on the same line?
– Yes, there is a chance. In 10 years we will be able to see them together, “Ovechkina told .
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