Alex Ovechkin is 23rd most marketable athlete in the world
According to SportsPro (May 17, 2011), Alex Ovechkin is 23rd most marketable athlete in the world.
1. Usain Bolt
2. LeBron James
3. Cristiano Ronaldo
4. Lionel Messi
5. Lewis Hamilton
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22. Maria Sharapova
23. Alexander Ovechkin
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27. Sidney Crosby
And here's the link to Russian Gillette web site (h/t to EmilyB: "Repping that silly Swedish hat!")
Here's the translation from Russian:
Millions of men around the world rely on every day care with Gillette, and Alexander Ovechkin is the face of Gillette, the living proof that even brutally looking strong man can look good and take care of his style and appearance.
The participants in this phase of the competition should upload their best photos, and thus demonstrate that the phrase "real man should be a little more handsome than monkey" is completely untrue!
LOL.
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I'll admit it: I had to Google the guy at No. 5
Does Ov plan to take a break from his commercial making career and play hockey next season or will we get more of that FLOATVECHKIN game he gave us so often this past season?
Why people think that making a commercial affects his game? He can make a commercial in only one day or two not the whole season.
Thanks Emily! I ditto your LOL. The idea of a man like Ovie being a little more handsome than a monkey...ROFL again!
Ovie might have been distracted this past season, but IMO making commercials had little, if anything to do with his on-ice problems. He's done this before with no apparent drop-off in his offensive numbers. IMO his main problem was poor training during his vacation time, which affected his conditioning, and that in turn negatively impacted his overall game and stamina, plus left him more prone to injury.
It's not the commercials that's the problem, it was Ovie's decision to stay in Moscow and not train with his usual trainer last summer plus overdoing the party scene. He started training too late and not very well, so he arrived at training camp in poor physical shape. He promised to make changes for next season, so let's cut him some slack at least until we see if he follows through with his pledge. Fair enough?
Damn towel.
I love this blog, but the headline in this case is so misleading as to be false. The rankings are of "value for money" for new deals signing athletes to endorsement contracts. Thus Roger Federer and Tiger Woods are not in the rankings at all, nor are the Williams sisters, Anna Kournakova, Jeff Gordon, Earnhardt Jr., Danica Patrick, et al. In other words, the rankings take into account the athlete's future career prospects plus the price the athlete's management/agency demands. In a sense, the idea that all these other factors confuse the issue actually may make it more impressive that Ovie ranked as high as he did.
@Jeremy,
I watched virtually every game this season and I have to disagree with you on floating... Being not ready physically doesn't mean floating... if he didn't score much, doesn't mean he was floating... if he didn't score in winter Olympics doesn't mean he was floating... no, he wanted to win as much as anybody in every game and he was NOT floating...
@Brian,
This is according to SportsPro, I didn't put in a title because it would be too long...
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