Former Russian national team player Roman Pavlyuchenko compared Washington hockey player Alexandra Ovechkin with Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.
I’m proud of our country. Hockey is probably the second sport after football, everyone loves it and likes it. And twice is nice when our Russian guy makes a fuss in hockey. I know Alexander personally, and we always communicate during a meeting. What can I say – legend! It’s like Messi and Ronaldo in football. Here, Ovechkin and Datsyuk are legends; they don’t become legends, they are born. How long we’ve all waited for this… someone believed, but someone didn’t. Not so long ago, he was injured, but in every game he started scoring – a handsome man.
