Alexander Alexandrovich Kokorin is an undeniably odious person. On the football field, he does not shine with outstanding results, but he regularly finds himself in the center of scandals and gossip and attracts the attention of the public even more often than outstanding athletes.
Biography
Alexander Alexandrovich was born on March 19, 1991 in the Belgorod region, in the small town of Valuyki. In order to become one of the highest paid players in Russian football, Kokorin had to go through a difficult path. A boy from early childhood wanted to be an athlete, but his first sport was boxing, which Alexander was engaged in for 4 months.
An important event in the life of Kokorin took place in the first grade - the coach of one of the local football schools came to school and invited the boys to play football. Among those who agreed was Alexander Kokorin. It is worth noting that the local trainer part-time was a scout of the capital “Spartak”, and at the age of 9 he sent Kokorin to the club for viewing.
Skills and talents of the young man were impressed by the coaching staff of the “Red-White”, but the club could not provide full-fledged housing, because of which the boy did not stay in Spartak. Learning about this situation, another metropolitan club, “Locomotive”, intercepted a talented boy. Providing all the conditions for training and, most importantly, living, Lokomotiv got one of the most famous Russian football players of our time.
Career
Despite the fact that Kokorin studied at the Lokomotiv Academy, he signed his first professional contract with Moscow Dynamo in 2008. Due to the big problems with the attackers, Alexander made his debut in the main team at the age of 17. In the club, he spent 8 years, went on the field 203 times, for which he scored 50 times by taking the opponent’s goal. Also, as part of Dynamo, Alexander became the finalist of the Russian Cup in 2012.
In 2013, a new major player appeared on the large transfer market - Makhachkala “Anji”, who literally threw money at it, buying Russian star players and offering generous contracts to world stars who completed their careers. Kokorin, like many, couldn’t calmly continue his career at Dynamo, when in Makhachkala literally littered the players with money. On July 3 of the same year, he announced that he wanted to leave the club ahead of schedule and continue his career at Anji.
Already in the middle of the month, he joined the team and started training, but Alexander did not succeed in a brilliant career in this team. Immediately after the start of the training process, he began to worry about old injuries and the player was forced to go to Germany for treatment. During the time he spent there, “Anji” managed to go broke. As a result, the club was forced to put its star players on a transfer, and Kokorin was waiting for the same fate. Thus, during the time he spent in Makhachkala, he did not play a single match.
In August of that year, Kokorin, in the company of Igor Denisov and Yuri Zhirkov, the athlete returned safely to Dynamo Moscow, where he played two seasons. In 2016, Alexander, together with Yuri Zhirkov, went to St. Petersburg, where he signed a contract with Zenit, which he still plays in. Over the years, Alexander became the owner of the Cup and Super Cup of Russia.
National team
As part of the national team, Kokorin made his debut at the end of 2011 and spent 48 matches in the camp of the national team, in which he was able to score only 12 goals. In 2013, Alexander Kokrin scored a goal against Luxembourg and set a record for the national team - the fastest goal that was scored in 21 seconds of the match.
Scandals and prosecution
Alexander Kokorin is one of the most popular heroes of the yellow press, spicy exposures and trash talk shows on Russian television. A lover of high-speed driving, especially when drunk, from an early youth he regularly created problems on the roads of Moscow. In 2012, foreign media outlets (against the backdrop of accusations of homophobia of Russian society and the football environment in particular) published photos of Kokorin and Mamaev, where they hug and kiss, and elevated the players to the rank of heroes. The guys hastened to refute rumors about gay orientation, explaining that they just love each other like brothers.
But real recognition came to the “heroes" in 2016 after the shameful failure of the Russian team at the European Championships in France. Immediately after the departure of the national team in the group stage, Kokorin and Mamaev went for a drink in Monaco, where, relaxing in luxurious rooms, they drank champagne at 200 thousand euros per bottle. The public could not help but pay attention to such tricks and sharply condemned the couple, followed by disciplinary punishments and fines, but this did not stop the restless "brothers"
In October 2018, Alexander Kokorin and Pavel Mamaev again appeared in all newspapers, online publications and television programs, except for those who were lazy. The guys had a cultural rest in one of the Moscow establishments, where, allegedly for no reason, one of the Moscow officials, who was also resting in this institution, began to insult the guys. They could not forgive this and beat upstart, not hesitating to use chairs and other improvised objects in a fight. But this time, separating fines and reprimands did not work, they started a criminal case on the brawlers and arrested them for two months. At the moment, an investigation is underway and all the details and causes of the incident are being clarified.
