Former Detroit striker Sean Aivry shared his memories of the end of Sergei Fedorov’s romance with tennis player Anna Kournikova.
“2002 year. Detroit is holding another match, I am sitting in stock and watching hockey with one eye and MTV with the other. Somewhere at the end of the second period, the cameras pulled out the front rows, and there on the Anna Kournikova show next to Enrique Iglesias. I think Darren McCarthy was around me then. We looked at each other.
Mack was close to Sergei Fedorov, but everyone loved him then. He was very cool. As cool as you can imagine. Incredible dude. And at that time Fedorov and Kournikova met. They lived in the same house in Detroit and even attended team parties. For Christmas, for Superball, for Thanksgiving. They were a couple, and everyone knew that.
Mac and I stared at the screen and couldn’t believe it. Wow, wow, maybe we thought? Maybe they were just planted nearby? And then the boom – Anna kissed Iglesias during the broadcast. I look at Mack – he seemed to see a ghost. Damn, what should we do?
Fedorov on ice, his close friend Chris Chelios is also there. I definitely did not want to be the one to tell Sergey about this. Suddenly Mack says: “I’ll figure it out.” He waited for a break, went to Chelios and explained to him what had happened. Sergei did not tell us that he and Anna had melted away or something like that. And we seem to have seen her not so long ago with him. Chelios was not thrilled. Chris was friends with Anna, and he liked the fact that she and Sergey were a couple and, it seems, were even engaged.
Game over. Leaving the ice, Chelios pulled Fedorov into one of the empty rooms and told him what had happened. When they returned to the locker room, Sergey looked upset. Usually it was difficult to unsettle him, but this time it was clear that he was angry. He quickly changed clothes and disappeared from the locker room.
Wow, if I met Iglesias now, I would remind him of this, and I don’t care that 30 years have passed. The next day, Scotty Bowman gathered us before training and said: “Guys, you know what happened to Sergey. He needs to deal with his affairs, he flew to Miami and will return when he can. This is the point. ”
And at that time it sounded very unexpected. Coaches usually do not care about the problems of players with friends, children from mistresses and such garbage. But Scotty understood how much each Detroit player was very kind to Fedorov, and he couldn’t do otherwise, ”Aivry told the No Gruffs Given podcast.
In her youth, Kournikova simultaneously met with Bure and Fedorov. There was an engagement with one, with a second – perhaps marriage
Kournikova and Iglesias – ????. We started with sex in the clip, together for 20 years, because they live for each other
He escaped from Finland after two matches, played for cash in the half-drinker league. Lockout 2005 in the life of Sean Aivry
