Childhood and family
Alexander was born in the small town of Valuyki. Interest in football was instilled in him by his father, who at first coached his son himself. Already at school he was invited to the football section. At the age of nine, he began attending the boxing section in parallel. 
In 2000, the boy was watching the Spartak football school. The young football player showed himself well, but in Spartak they could not provide him with housing, unlike the Lokomotiv football school, which provided him with a place in a boarding school. It was there that he studied for the next 6 years.
At the age of ten, Kokorin actually became independent, finding himself without parents in the capital. According to him, the first two years were very difficult. Relatives could visit him no more than once every three months. But over time, he got used to it, learned to wash and even cooked something himself, and he also made many friends.
From 2001 to 2007, the young football player played in various youth teams, representing the Lokomotiv school, and several times was recognized as the best striker in the championship of sports schools in the capital.
"Dynamo"
In early 2008, at the invitation of Dynamo scouts, the player was on trial. During an exhibition match, he managed to prove himself and as a result received an invitation to join Dynamo. 
In the spring of the same year, Alexander signed a three-year contract with the club. Since at that time the team had difficulties with the attackers, coach Kobelev transferred the young football player from the double to the main team. In the very first game (home match with Saturn), Kokorin came on as a substitute and scored a goal. That year, Kokorin became the youngest of sixteen players to score a goal in the top league of the Russian championship.
Master class of football player Alexander Kokorin
After only three rounds, Alexander again sent the ball into the opponents' goal. This time Dynamo fought with Lokomotiv. The game ended with the victory of "Dynamo" with a score of 1:0. Then Kokorin entered the field in all the remaining six matches and received a medal for third place along with other members of the Dynamo team.
In 2009, the athlete appeared on the field in twenty-three matches, in 2010 - in twenty-six. By this time, the football player began to receive offers from other clubs, including Spartak and CSKA. However, when Kokorin's contract with Dynamo expired, he extended it for another three and a half years. Alexander did not become a player of the main team under Kobelev, but he was able to open up as a striker. He managed to gain a foothold in the main team in the Silkin team in the 2011/2012 season. He played on the left flank of the defense, from time to time he was also used in midfield. Thanks to a good blow from both legs and skillful pressure of opponents, Kokorin knows how to confuse the enemy.
Goals and passes by Alexander Kokorin
The 2012/2013 season turned out to be very successful for the athlete. He scored three goals in the Europa League: twice, in different matches, against the Scots Dundee United, one goal flew to the German FC Stuttgart. This allowed Kokorin to claim the title of the best striker in the Premier League. The players of the Moscow team, specialists and head coach Dan Petrescu spoke very positively about the player.
"Anji"
In mid-2013, representatives of Anji made a profitable offer to Alexander. He hesitated for a long time, but nevertheless agreed. The amount of compensation amounted to €19 million. In mid-July, Kokorin began training as part of a new team. 
However, he never played a single match for Anji. Almost immediately, an old injury began to disturb him again, and the athlete had to go to Germany for treatment. During this period of time, the club underwent significant changes, and some star players were put up for sale. This fate befell Kokorin. The Dynamo club immediately returned the rights to Alexander, simultaneously buying out Igor Denisov and Yuri Zhirkov. In the first match after returning to the Moscow team (against Zenit), he entered the field as a replacement for Fedor Smolov.
Alexander Kokorin made his first hat-trick during the match with Rostov, the game ended with the victory of Dynamo (7: 3). During the season, he also threw the ball into the gates of Spartak, Kuban, CSKA, Terek. In 2015, Kokorin's game began to decline, he stopped getting into the starting lineup of the team, and therefore scored only one goal - to Rostov.
In the summer of the same year, the striker was made the captain of Dynamo instead of Kevin Kuranyi. It soon became known that four clubs were eyeing the promising player at once: St. Petersburg Zenit, English Manchester United and Tottenham, as well as French FC PSG
Alexander Kokorin in the Russian national team
For the first time, Alexander received an invitation to the Russian youth team in 2009. He performed with success more than once and scored seven goals throughout his performances. 
Since 2011, Kokorin began to play for the Russian national team. His game was highlighted by Dick Advocaat, and, subsequently, by Fabio Capello. For the first time he entered the field for the national team in a match against Greece. Thanks to a confident game, he was selected to participate in Euro 2012, where the player played in the match against the Czech Republic, but due to an injury, he no longer appeared on the field in the tournament.
In qualifying for the 2014 World Cup against the Israeli national team, Kokorin scored his first goal for the national team. In a match with Luxembourg (September 2013), Kokorin scored a goal in the 21st second of the match, setting a new record for the Russian team.
At the World Cup in Brazil, Alexander played three matches, scoring one goal in a match against Algeria, which ended in a draw (1:1).
"At lunch": Alexander Kokorin - about Russian football without beautiful blows
At Euro 2016, the Russian team did not play the best way, flying out almost at the very beginning of the championship. On this occasion, Kokorin, in the company of Pavel Mamaev, arranged a champagne party in Monaco, spending about 250 thousand euros on it - each bottle of an elite drink cost 500 euros, and they treated the whole hall. Kokorin denied all claims, they say, he didn’t celebrate anything, it’s just that there were a lot of Russians in the restaurant, and he joined their company.
"Zenith"
At the beginning of 2016, the Dynamo striker accepted the offer of Zenit - the St. Petersburg team promised the player € 3.5 million. Together with Kokorin, Yuri Zhirkov also moved there. The Blue-White-Blues greeted the new players in a friendly manner, although midfielder Oleg Shatov joked: “I didn’t understand that Cristiano Ronaldo had arrived in the team. And this is just Kokorin. April 9, 2016 Alexander Kokorin played the first match as part of Zenit.Alexander Kokorin: the goal of the Algerian national team
On August 24, 2017, Zenit reached the group stage of the Europa League, beating the Dutch FC Utrecht thanks to Kokorin's double. The player scored the first goal in the 9th minute, the second - at the end of the extra half.
Personal life of Alexander Kokorin
Kokorin met for some time with Victoria Smirnova (Timati's cousin), who was a club regular, and as a result of frequent disputes on this basis, the young people broke up. 
His next passion was a girl named Christina. She accompanied the football player to Euro 2012, but after a while the young people broke up.
Now Alexander Kokorin is dating Daria Valitova, the ex-girlfriend of Vlad Topalov and, ironically, Timati. The lovers met in 2013, and Alexander for a long time sought the location of a proud girl. Now Daria's body even has a tattoo "K9" - Kokorin's game number.
On June 4, 2017, Alexander and Daria had a son, Michael. The baby's face is not shown on social networks, but Daria claims that the boy inherited her eyes, and the rest is the spitting image of dad.
In 2017, the football player entered the first year of the Financial University (St. Petersburg branch).
Beating with a stool, court, prison
In October 2018, Alexander Kokorin, along with his friend Pavel Mamaev from FC Krasnodar, became involved in a scandal that threatened to put an end to his football career. On October 7, the friends arrived in Moscow to "celebrate the tenth anniversary of friendship."At 9 am the next day, together with a group of friends, they visited a coffee shop, behaved noisily and indecently. The visitor made a remark to them, to which the players responded with an act of violence. Kokorin took a chair and hit the man on the head. It soon became clear that an official from the Ministry of Industry and Trade became the victim of the athletes.
Kokorin and Mamaev beat the driver of the TV presenter of Channel One
The players were called in for questioning by the police. As a preventive measure, the athletes were put in jail until December. However, both met the new year behind bars. The arrest of Kokorin and Mamaev was extended until April 8. The football player celebrated his 28th birthday behind bars.
Alexander Kokorin now
On September 6, 2019, Alexander Kokorin and Pavel Mamaev were released from prison on parole due to good behavior. The prosecutor did not appeal against the release, agreeing that the prisoners were employed immediately upon arrival at the zone and received two incentives. 
Alexander Alexandrovich Kokorin is the most productive footballer of 2017, a striker, known not only for his sporting achievements, but also for the scandals surrounding his name
Date of Birth: March 19, 1991
Place of Birth: city of Valuiki, Belgorod region
Zodiac sign: Fish
“We have modest football, without tricks, everyone works for the result, the main thing is to win. Nobody likes a beautiful game. As soon as I joined the team, I was told: don’t think too hard, play useful for the team.”
“I don’t watch my games on TV. I myself in the game understand what I did right and what didn’t. ”
Biography of Alexander Kokorin
Alexander Kokorin was born in the town of Valuiki, Belgorod region, not far from Ukraine, in the family of Christian believers Svetlana and Alexander Kokorin.
At the age of 7, Sasha enrolled in the boxing section and at the same time in the football section. Just a familiar boxing coach lived not far from Sasha's house. The boy looked like boxing for only 4 months, but he realized that he liked football more. And he took up football. And Sasha loved to play with the ball since childhood, constantly chasing the ball around the yard.
Sasha was lucky: the coach in Valuyki was at the same time a breeder at the Spartak Moscow football school (he selected talented players), where Kokorin was selected. But in the capital, Sasha had nowhere to live (the club could not provide housing), besides, the boy did not like how he was treated here, and he, upset, left home. And after a while, an option turned up: he was invited to the Lokomotiv sports school and assigned to a boarding school at the club.
So, a 10-year-old fan of Alexander Arshavin and Roman Pavlyuchenko was left alone in the huge capital. Here he studied for six years. Parents were able to visit their son only once every three months. The boy organized his life himself: he washed clothes, cooked food, and for a tiny scholarship he could treat himself to a burger at McDonald's.
Kokorin and Dynamo
Before the start of the 2008 season, 17-year-old Kokorin signed a three-year contract with the Dynamo capital club and became the youngest player to score a goal in the Russian Premier League. It happened in the match "Dynamo" (Moscow) - "Saturn" (Moscow region).
Alexander Kokorin admitted that he grandiosely celebrated the goal that he scored against his former club Lokomotiv. Then the Dynamo team defeated Lokomotiv with a score of 1:0.
After three rather productive years, in 2011 Alexander Kokorin extended the contract for another 3.5 years with the Dynamo club.
At this time, he showed himself so well that he was called up to the national team.
And in July 2013, Kokorin went to the Anji club (Makhachkala), and the compensation amounted to 19 million euros. However, he had to go abroad to treat an old injury, and at that time the team was restructured and several star players had to be put up for sale. Yuri Zhirkov, Igor Denisov and Alexander Kokorin were transferred to Dynamo. This happened already in August 2013. So Kokorin did not have to play for the Anji club in Makhachkala.
When Alexander played for Dynamo, he had excellent relations with the police, he had acquaintances who helped restore his rights and make numbers.
In January 2016, Alexander Kokorin and his Dynamo clubmate Yuri Zhirkov were bought by the St. Petersburg club Zenit. As part of this team, Alexander played several productive matches.
Personal life
Almost every famous football player has a glamorous wife or girlfriend. Alexander Kokorin just has such a girlfriend - a model and pop singer, singing under the pseudonym Amelie, Daria Valitova.
In 2017, the spouses Daria and Alexander had a son.
The scandalous life of Kokorin
From his youth, Alexander Kokorin was in trouble with the law. At breakneck speed, he rushed around Moscow, got into accidents, and in a state of intoxication.
The press wrote about Alexander’s unsightly actions more than once: either he was filmed shooting at a friend’s wedding, then drunk with naked girls, then embracing and kissing with his friend football player Pavel Mamaev. To the fact that journalists fanned the scandal around this photo, Kokorin said:
“We flew to America to rest, and people, apparently, got bored without us. They decided to inflate this scandal. But there are people who believe that Pasha and I are gay.”
In 2016, the media were full of reports that Kokorin and Mamaev "celebrated" the departure of the Russian team from the European Championships in the expensive Twiga nightclub in Monte Carlo. For such behavior, Alexander was punished by being transferred to the reserve team: Zenit-2.
The following year, the football player was deprived of his driver's license for driving in the oncoming lane.
In early October 2018, Alexander Kokorin, again, together with Pavel Mamaev and his brother Kirill, started a fight in a cafe in the capital, the victim of which was an official of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia Denis Pak and the general director of the SSC RF FSUE "NAMI" Sergey Gaisin. Two hours before the incident with officials, the players beat the driver of the Channel One host.
Kokorin managed to "light up" in the cinema. In the series "Fizruk" with Dmitry Nagiyev in the title role, a famous football player plays himself.
Achievements
Personal
2011 - the best young player in the Russian Premier League.
2013 - the author of the fastest goal in the history of the Russian national team: at the 19th second in the match against the Luxembourg national team.
Command
Club "Dynamo":
2008 - bronze medalist of the Russian Championship;
2011/12 season - finalist of the Cup of Russia.
Club "Zenith":
2016, 2017 - bronze medalist of the Russian Championship;
2015/16 season - winner of the Russian Cup;
2016 - winner of the Russian Super Cup.
Alexander Kokorin is a young and promising Russian footballer. He was able to become successful only through great desire and diligent training. Now he is one of the best strikers of FC Zenit, and his sports biography is replenished with new personal achievements every year.
Alexander was born on March 19, 1991 in the Belgorod region, the city of Valuyki. From childhood, the boy showed great interest in sports. For some time he was actively engaged in boxing, and then turned his attention to football. The father was very happy with this decision of his son and tried his best to support his new hobby.
At the age of 9, Alexander managed to take part in the selection of a youth team for training at the Spartak football school. The guy was able to show a decent level of play, but a serious problem got in the way - the lack of housing. Despite this, he did not despair. And not in vain, because very quickly he was accepted into the Lokomotiv sports school, which provided him with a place in a boarding school.
The training lasted for six years. At first, Alexander was not easy: the lack of free time and rare meetings with relatives affected his emotional state.
But over time, he got used to an independent life. In addition, his friends were always by his side. It can be said that the young football player began his professional football activity quite early. Until 2007, he managed to play in various youth teams. In addition, he was recognized several times as one of the best strikers.
First successes
In 2008, the footballer was invited to take part in an exhibition match for selection to the Dynamo team. Alexander coped well with the task and showed excellent playing technique, so he was immediately accepted into the team. In the spring of the same year, Alexander signed a three-year contract with the club.
Since at that time the team had difficulties with the attackers, coach Kobelev transferred the young football player from the bench to the main team. The first match was successful for Alexander, and almost immediately he managed to score a goal in the top league of the Russian championship.
After that, some well-known clubs became interested in the young footballer, including Spartak and CSKA. But Kokorin was devoted to his team, so he decided to extend the contract for a few more years. All this time, Alexander developed the techniques of playing as a striker.
Alexander Kokorin in the Moscow "Dynamo"
The situation changed only in the new season 2011/2012, when a new coach appeared in the team - Sergey Silkin. He immediately changed the main team and sent the player not only to the left flank of the defense, but also used him as a midfielder.
The main advantage of Alexander Kokorin is a good kick from both legs and skillful pressing of opponents.
Russian team
In 2009, Kokorin was accepted into the Russian youth football team. He repeatedly took part in the qualifying rounds for the European Championship. For all the time he showed his best qualities: good ball handling, agility and accuracy of impact. Therefore, in the fall of 2011, Alexander was offered to become a striker in the main Russian team.
Alexander Kokorin in the match against Stuttgart
He accepted the offer and made his first team appearance in a friendly against Greece. Thanks to a confident game, he was selected to participate in Euro 2012. There the team competed with the Czech national team. But during the game, Kokorin was seriously injured, so he did not appear on the field until the end of the tournament.
In 2014, the Russian team took part in the World Cup, where they played against the Israeli team. It was in this match that the football player managed to score his first goal in the national team. In September 2013, in a match with Luxembourg, he scored a goal almost from the first seconds of the game, thereby setting a new record for the national team.
Personal life
Alexander Kokorin never lacked attention from the opposite sex. Like other famous people, the football player does not like to talk about his personal life. But it is known that he had several stormy novels. His first serious relationship was with Victoria Smirnova.
But this alliance did not last long. Victoria loved big companies and noisy parties, and the couple always had big disagreements about this. As a result, they decided to leave. After that, the young man met a girl, Christina. They were often seen together, besides, the football player rested with her abroad several times. However, after some time, the young people broke up.
In 2013, Alexander met his future wife, Daria Valitova. But the girl did not immediately reciprocate, so Kokorin had to seek her favor for some time.
The young football player actively showed her signs of attention, and as a result, Daria became his girlfriend, and after a while his wife. On June 4, 2017, the couple had a son.
Name: Kokorin Alexander Alexandrovich
Date of Birth: March 19, 1991.
Place of birth: Valuiki, Belgorod region, USSR
Position: Forward
Alexander Kokorin - biography of a football player
Alexander's own father began to introduce football to Alexander, training his son in his native Valuyki. In parallel, the boy was engaged in boxing. A football coach came to the school where Kokorin studied at that time in the first grade and invited the children to enroll in the football section. Alexander immediately agreed. But since you can’t build a football career in your native Valuyki, decided to conquer Moscow. The first club to watch was Spartak Moscow, where a nine-year-old boy was enough, but the team could not provide housing for the athlete. Unlike Spartak, another Moscow team, Lokomotiv, agreed to provide housing. It was for this club that the young striker played for the next 6 years, being recognized as the best striker at the youth championships in Moscow.
How football player Alexander Kokorin began his career
The official club career began in Dynamo Moscow in 2008. The 17-year-old striker has signed a three-year contract with the club. The team just lacked a good striker. Kokorin managed to score the first goal for Dynamo at a high level already in the first game for the capital club against Saturn. From that moment on, Kokorin began to be put in the starting lineup. So for a long time, the talented striker showed very good football, for which in 2011 he was recognized as the best young football player in Russia. In the same year, Alexander extends the contract with Dynamo Moscow. On September 22, 2012, in the 9th round of the championship in a home game against Amkar, he plays his 100th match in the Russian Premier League.
On July 3, 2013, at a meeting of Dynamo directors, the striker said that he wanted to continue his career in Anji. The release amount was € 19 million. On July 10, Anzhi's official website announced that the athlete would join the team in the coming days. But it was not possible to arrange a career in Anji. In the same year, on August 16, he returns to Dynamo Moscow.
The first hat-trick in his career Kokorin scored against Rostov. But after the winter break, Alexander began to scoring drought, he stopped getting into the starting lineup. The only goal scored in 2015 was against Rostov. In the summer of 2015, having gained experience and authority, the footballer was appointed team captain instead of Kevin Kuranyi. In the first match of the season with the captain's armband, he scores against Zenit.
On January 30, 2016, Alexander signs a contract with St. Petersburg Zenit, simultaneously rejecting the offer of the London Arsenal. Kokorin may not have been averse to joining the ranks of the gunners, but Dynamo's proposal from the Londoners did not fit. On April 9, 2016, Kokorin scored his first goal for the St. Petersburg team in a game with Amkar.
Kokorin in the Russian national team
Since 2009, Kokorin has played for the Russian youth team. He mainly took part in the selection games for the youth Euro 2011 and 2013. In total, he scored 7 goals in them.
The debut in the Russian national team was in October 2011 in a friendly match against the Greek national team. I went with the team to Euro 2012, but got injured in the first match and did not play again in this tournament. Kokorin scored his first goal for the national team in 2012. The ball was scored against Israel as part of the selection for the 2014 World Cup. On September 6, 2013, Alexander scored the fastest goal in the history of the national team, hitting the gates of the Luxembourg national team already in the 21st second.
At the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, he played three games for the national team and scored one goal against Algeria.
The best moments and goals of a football player season 2017/18 (video)
And now we offer to look at the achievements and club statistics in a table:
| Club | Year of performance | Championship | Cup | Eurocup |
| games/goals | games/goals | games/goals | ||
| "DINAMO" (Moscow) | 2008 | 7/2 | 0/0 | — |
| 2009 | 24/2 | 3/0 | 4/1 | |
| 2010 | 24/0 | 2/0 | — | |
| 2011 | 37/5 | 4/2 | — | |
| 2012 | 22/10 | 1/0 | 3/3 | |
| 2013 | 22/10 | 1/0 | — | |
| 2014 | 27/8 | 1/0 | 11/2 | |
| 2015/16 | 8/4 | 2/1 | — | |
| "ZENITH" | 2015/16 | 10/2 | 2/1 | 2/0 |
| 2016 | 27/5 | 2/1 | 8/4 | |
| 2017/18 | 21/10 | 0/0 | 11/9 |
Achievements with FC Zenit and personal:
- won the Russian Cup and Super Cup in 2015/16;
- received the award of the best young football player of the Russian Premier League "First Five" in 2011;
- became the author of the fastest ball in the history of the Russian national team, it happened at the 19th second in the game against Luxembourg in 2013;
- was twice included in the list of 33 best players in his country in 2012/13 and 2013/14.
Personal life of Alexander Kokorin
She is in a civil marriage with Daria Valitova, a singer under the pseudonym Amelie. In 17, the girl gave birth to Alexander's son. Alexander's stepfather, named Kirill, became the footballer's agent. Kokorin's mother is an entrepreneur. The guy even starred in one of the episodes of the series "Fizruk", played himself.
Also on our website you can find the biography of Alexander's best friend -
In July 16, the media received an entertaining video from a party in Monte Carlo, where Kokorin and Mamaev spent time, later Kokorin was transferred to Zenit-2.
On January 17, Kokorin was on vacation in warm countries, a photo got into the network where he was wearing a T-shirt with a print of Pablo Escobar (a drug lord of the 90s, a criminal known in history. Apparently this caused some people to resent.
The footballer was deprived of his rights for driving in the opposite direction. When Russia left the Confederations Cup, in the summer, Alexander posted a video where he and Dziuba show their mustaches, raising their hands under their noses, with the caption “message”, this is the word that their national team coach Cherchesov often used. It seemed to most that the players were mocking the coach.
Being at the wedding of midfielder Chochiev, Kokorin congratulated the groom under the shots of a pistol, and the video got into the network.
criminal problems
In October 18, Kokorin and Mamaev rented a compartment of the Sapsan train, heading to Moscow, during which time they managed to drink a lot of alcohol and behaved inappropriately, celebrating ten years of their friendship. Then followed a strip club near the Mayakovskaya metro station. The next day, both beat Belarusian Vitaliy Solovchuk, the man ended up in intensive care with serious head injuries.
Two hours later, the guys got into a fight in the Coffeemania cafe, which is located in the central district of Moscow, the victim was Denis Pak, director of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, and Sergey Gaisin, general director of NAMI (who was not injured). Two criminal cases were opened under article 116 “beatings”. Two days later, the position was changed to 213 "hooliganism", since Kokorin did not appear at the appointed time for interrogation at the authorities, but in the evening the football player appeared.
On October 11, Alexander was arrested for two months and charged under the above articles. A week later, the court rejected several appeals to transfer the players to more favorable conditions than the pre-trial detention center. The president of the St. Petersburg club Fursenko, as well as the players of Zenit, sent positive references to Kokorin, with which they wanted to take the football player under house arrest, but the court only attached them to the case. After the violators were transferred to the double cells of Butyrka. The term of arrest was extended until 8 February.
The incident forced Zenit to remove the possibility of buying equipment with Kokorin in its online store, and a banner with him was also removed at Pulkovo Airport. The club's management now condemns the player.
Forward "Zenith" Alexander Kokorin was injured. At the match with RB Leipzig in the Europa League, the footballer suffered a torn cruciate ligament. This is a severe injury, and now Kokorin may miss the World Cup. "360" figured out what predictions doctors make and whether the Russian team will be able to cope at the 2018 World Cup without one of the main attackers.
Alexander Kokorin is a striker for Zenit and the Russian national team, one of the main players in the national team. In the first minutes of the match of the 1/8 finals of the Europa League, Kokorin was on the lawn. A team of doctors immediately ran to him. A few minutes later it became clear that Kokorin would not be able to continue the game. The attacker was replaced, and a little later, news appeared on the official website of FC Zenit, where they announced the diagnosis - a rupture of the cruciate ligaments.
To play or not to play: doctors' predictions
As soon as the diagnosis was confirmed, Alexander Kokorin began to prepare for the operation, its timing is still unknown. "360" talked with sports doctors and found out how serious Kokorin's injury is and what awaits the Zenit striker in the near future.
Sports doctor Ilya Melekhin called the injury common and typical for football players. There are several treatment options and the first is surgery. If highly qualified doctors operate, then the recovery will take place without complications. But the recovery process takes a long time. According to the doctor, Kokorin will be able to return to duty no earlier than six months later. It turns out that there is a possibility that the striker will miss the 2018 World Cup.
If you speed up the biological processes for the healing of bones or ligaments, if when, someone can speed it up significantly, then this will be a Nobel Prize, at least. Our bones and ligaments grow together in accordance with our body's abilities, and it is almost impossible to accelerate this greatly
- Ilya Melekhin.
According to Melekhin, Kokorin will need another three months to return to duty. “It’s not that his ligaments have grown together so that he still reaches a serious level. At the same time, a person can walk normally along the street, but if he makes some kind of acceleration or turn on his foot, some kind of sharp, characteristic of football, everything can get worse. This is also an option. He is not an ordinary person, he is a high-level footballer. The loads are completely different,” Melekhin believes.
Photo: RIA Novosti / Alexey Danichev
Traumatologist and sports doctor Artem Katulin told 360 that Kokorin would definitely not make it to the 2018 World Cup. The traumatologist predicts that the player will return to the game not earlier than in six months.
The recovery time for an athlete is four months: surgery and three to four months of rehabilitation. On the field, he will be in the full group in the team in about six months. If everything goes well, it will pass without complications. No time for the championship
Artem Katulin.
The website of the Zenit football club says that Alexander Kokorin will soon go to Rome to undergo a course of treatment.
“The loss is great for us, of course”
The famous Russian football players, in a conversation with 360, called the loss of Kokorin for the national team difficult, but not the most serious. Football expert, coach and ex-sportsman Andrei Kanchelskis said that now many forwards will be able to prove themselves on the field.
A big loss for us, of course. Recently, he has become the main striker of Zenit, so I think that he could be considered the main striker for the entire team. I think they would look good together with Smolov. It is difficult to say who could replace him. Let the coaching staff decide now - how, what and whom. Now many attackers have a chance to prove themselves
Kanchelskis.
Football player Alexander Mostovoy noticed a strange pattern in the increasing cases of cruciate ligament rupture in different players of our team. At the same time, he stressed that the loss of Kokorin will be compensated.
The injury, of course, is serious, plus this is not the first player to leave our team in the last six months. Something even somehow strange: all the time the same injury. The main striker Smolov will still play in the national team, and the midfield line can be built there in any way. We have a lot of choices in midfield. If I got injured, God forbid, Smolov, here I would say that this loss is serious. And Kokorin is an unpleasant, problematic, heavy loss, especially since he is now in good shape, and scores, and that's it. But it can be systematically replaced. Golovin, Dzagoev, Miranchuk, Shatov, Zhirkov, Samedov, Glushakov - these are just the first ones I remembered
Bridge.
