Evgeny Malkin is a Russian hockey player, central striker of the Russian national team, two-time world champion and honored master of sports. He is also the center forward of the American club "Pittsburgh Penguins", a three-time Stanley Cup winner and a participant in three Olympic Games. His wife is Anna Kasterova, a TV presenter. Son Nikita.
Biography of Evgeny Malkin
Evgeny was born in 1986 in the city of Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk region. Little Zhenya first skated at the age of three thanks to his father Vladimir Anatolyevich, an amateur hockey player.
As soon as the boy grew up, dad sent him to a hockey school at the local hockey team Metallurg. Up to the age of 15, he did not stand out in anything special against the background of his peers in the sports club.
Having given his word to become an outstanding hockey player, by the age of 18, Evgeny achieved the title of world champion among juniors (not older than 18 years). This happened in 2004 in Minsk as part of the Russian national team. In 2005 and 2006, he took second places at the youth world championships (players under 20) in the USA and Canada.
Career
He made his senior league debut in 2003. In the same year, he opened his scorer and scored his first two goals.
During the period from 2003 to 2006, spent in Magnitogorsk Metallurg, he grew to the leader of the team and the national team, won silver and bronze medals at the Russian championships, the title of the best newcomer of the season, and the Golden Helmet prize.
In 2006, after escaping from Metallurg, he signed a contract with the NHL Pittsburgh Penguins. At that time, this club again began to enter the first positions in the Stanley Cup, but could not win it. Malkin, having shown himself well in this club, signed a contract with him for more than $ 40 million.
The story of Malkin's transfer from Metallurg to Pittsburgh Penguins received a wide public response in 2006. During Metallurg's trip to Finland, the player disappeared from the Russian club and after a while appeared with an already signed NHL contract.
According to Eugene, he has long wanted to go to the NHL and has long promised the Pittsburgh Penguins club to sign a contract with him. But Russian agents put pressure on him and forced him to sign a contract with the Russian Super League for another year. Subsequently, Metallurg sued Malkin, but the federal court in New York dismissed this claim.
In 2013, the contract was extended for 8 years in the amount of $ 76 million.
As part of the senior Russian national team, he made his debut in the final of the Eurotour of the 2004/2005 season, scoring the winning goal.
During the period from 2005 to 2012, he participated in seven world championships, winning bronze in 2005 and 2007, silver in 2010. At the 2012 championship, Malkin received a gold medal and the title of the strongest player in the tournament. In 2013, Eugene became the world champion for the second time.
As part of the Russian national team, he participated in the Olympic Games in 2006, 2010 and 2014.
In 2017, Forbes magazine ranked Malkin as the sixth richest Russian celebrity. His income rose to $ 9.5 million.
Among Malkin's records, the following can be noted:
- became the first player since 1917/1918 to score in each of his first 6 NHL games;
- has the longest hitting streak of 15 matches in the NHL regular championship for the Russian national team;
- after Wayne Gretzky became the second player to become both the top scorer in both the NHL and the World Cup;
- repeated Wayne Gretzky's record for 21 assists in one month.
Personal life of Evgeny Malkin
Evgeny is married to Anna Kasterova, who works as a journalist and TV presenter. They have a son, Nikita, born in 2016.
Anna was born in 1984 in Zelenograd near Moscow. A psychologist by education, she graduated from the Moscow City Pedagogical University. She started her career at TNT in a team of sound engineers, dubbing texts. There she got her first experience, and at the same time honed her diction. She got her first experience as a TV presenter in the program “Moscow: Instructions for Use”.
Subsequently, she moved to the federal channel "Russia-2", where she gained her fame.
In her second year of work at the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, she managed to become a leader in terms of queries in the search engines of the Russian Internet and won the title of sex symbol of the Russia-2 TV channel. Many famous men's magazines offered her erotic photo shoots, but Anna refused them every time.
In 2015, the wedding of Anna Kasterova and Yevgeny Malkin took place in the USA.
According to press reports, before the wedding, Anna met with the host of music channels Timur Soloviev. Eugene did not differ in love affairs, but it became known about his short-term romance with Maria Kozhevnikova and a long relationship with Oksana Kondakova. With the last passion, the hockey player lived in a civil marriage for some time, bought her an apartment, arranged for an institute and was preparing to legalize their relationship, but at some point the couple broke up.
After Oksana, there were several more short-term unsuccessful novels, but only Anna Kasterova seriously won the heart of the hockey player.
A couple of Anna and Eugene declared themselves in 2015 at the Pittsburgh Penguins match in Minsk, after which the girl began to attend every game of Malkin. But they were forced to live separately: Anna in Moscow, and Eugene at a training base in the United States.
During a joint vacation in the Maldives, having made a marriage proposal to Anna, Eugene made her choose between work and family life. As a result, Anna left her TV presenter career and moved to live in America. They also played a modest wedding there.
Despite the decent annual income of the head of the family, they did not arrange magnificent celebrations on the occasion of the wedding. We left this venture for the future. Yes, and Evgeny's busy training schedule does not allow to arrange chic festivities.
During pregnancy, Anna was actively involved in sports so as not to get fat. And, to the surprise of her fans, already in the second week after giving birth, she boasted of an ideal figure.
