Lionel Messi

Alex Ovechkin slept with the Stanley Cup. His favorite player, Messi, did too with the World Cup trophy.

Alex Ovechkin was ecstatic when Lionel Messi, his favorite soccer player, finally broke through and won the World Cup with Argentina. The two players’ careers have paralleled in a lot of ways, including a decade-plus-long wait for the sport’s top prize. Ovechkin was unsure though if Messi’s partying would match his after his 2018 triumph though.

“I don’t know how he’s going to celebrate,” Ovechkin, a celebration trendsetter said, prompting laughter from the media.

Well, it appears, Messi did take a page from Ovi’s book after all. Messi slept with the World Cup trophy in his bed, just like Ovi did the first night he had the Stanley Cup at his house.

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By Ian Oland 3 months ago

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Alex Ovechkin and Lionel Messi had similiar, painfully long paths to dream titles. Ovi: ‘I’m really happy for him.’

Argentinian star Lionel Messi and Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin have both respectively been considered one of the greatest players of all time in their sport. But both also had decade-long-plus struggles to win a top-tier championship.

Ovechkin was able to finally break through after 13 seasons with the Caps and win the Stanley Cup in June 2018. Messi was finally able to make his claim yesterday when he led Argentina to the 2022 World Cup, scoring two goals and finding the back of the net in the shootout. It took Messi, 35, sixteen years to finally lift the FIFA trophy.

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By Faith Harris 3 months ago

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With Argentina winning the 2022 World Cup, let’s remember the time Alex Ovechkin met Lionel Messi

After years and years of losing in the World Cup, Lionel Messi finally broke through and won the big one. Who does that sound like?

Argentina defeated France 4-2 in penalties after a 3-3 draw on Sunday in what many are calling the greatest World Cup Final ever. Messi scored twice during the game. The victory gave Leo the one thing that had eluded him during his entire career — a World Cup championship. Messi got to lift the FIFA World Cup Trophy in his fifth and likely last World Cup of his career.

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By Ian Oland 3 months ago

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Alex Ovechkin says Lionel Messi speaks worse English than he does, Neymar is a hockey fan

Alex Ovechkin is a huge fan of soccer. From his fanhood of Spain’s historic club FC Barcelona to suiting up for FC Moscow Dynamo this summer, Ovechkin’s love of the sport is well documented.

Earlier this week, Ovechkin spoke at a Fonbet event in Moscow and spoke about famous soccer players he knows. Ovi, according to RIA Novosti, name-dropped two former Barca, now Paris Saint-Germain forwards. First, the legendary and incomparable Lionel Messi and later the uber-talented Neymar.

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By Chris Cerullo 7 months ago

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During 1,000 NHL games ceremony, Caps players gave Alex Ovechkin a paid vacation to Barcelona to see Messi play

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thursday night at Capital One Arena, Alex Ovechkin was honored pregame for playing in his 1,000th career game. Already scoring 600 career goals and tallying over 500 assists this season, Ovechkin reached the one thousand game plateau earlier in the week, April 1, against the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Due to traffic and long lines entering the building, Capital One Arena was only approximately three quarters full of fans during the ceremony, but those who made it inside, were deafening in salute of the franchise’s greatest player of all-time.

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By Ian Oland 5 years ago

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Alex Ovechkin Meets, Fanboys Over Lionel Messi (Photos)

Soccer legend Lionel Messi and the Argentinian national soccer team are in Washington DC this week for a friendly against El Salvador on Saturday.

After taking in a Wizards game earlier in the week, Messi met with Alex Ovechkin— one of Messi’s biggest fans– to exchange jerseys. Ovi totally fanboyed.

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By Ian Oland 8 years ago

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