Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kokorin is undoubtedly an 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 public's attention 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. From early childhood, the boy wanted to be an athlete, but his first sport was boxing, in which Alexander was engaged for 4 months.
In the first grade, an important event took place in Kokorin's life - a coach of one of the local football schools came to their school and invited the boys to play football. Among those who agreed was Alexander Kokorin. It is worth noting that the local coach was part-time scout of the capital "Spartak", and at the age of 9 he sent Kokorin to the club for viewing.
The skills and talents of the youngster impressed the Red-Whites coaching staff, but the club could not provide adequate housing, which is why the boy did not stay at Spartak. Having learned about this situation, another capital club, Lokomotiv, intercepted a talented boy. Having provided all the conditions for training and, most importantly, accommodation, Lokomotiv got one of the most famous Russian footballers of our time.
Career
Despite the fact that Kokorin studied at the Lokomotiv academy, he signed his first professional contract with Dynamo Moscow in 2008. Due to big problems with the strikers, Alexander made his debut in the main team at the age of 17. He spent 8 years at the club, entered the field 203 times, during which he scored 50 goals. Also in the "Dynamo" Alexander became a finalist of the Russian Cup in 2012.
In 2013, a new major player appeared on the large transfer market - Anji Makhachkala, which literally threw money, buying Russian star players and offering generous contracts to world stars who were ending their careers. Kokorin, like many others, could not calmly continue his career at Dynamo, when in Makhachkala the players were literally flooded 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 have a brilliant career in this team. Immediately after the start of the training process, old injuries began to bother him and the football 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, the same fate awaited Kokorin. Thus, during the time he spent in Makhachkala, he did not play a single match.
In August of the same year, Kokorin, in the company of Igor Denisov and Yuri Zhirkov, returned safely to Dynamo Moscow, where he played for two seasons. In 2016, Alexander, together with Yuri Zhirkov, went to St. Petersburg, where he signed a contract with Zenit, in which he plays to this day. Over the years, Alexander won the Russian Cup and Super Cup.
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 in the national team - the fastest goal scored 21 seconds into the match.
Scandals and prosecutions
Alexander Kokorin is one of the most popular heroes of the yellow press, juicy revelations and trashy talk shows on Russian television. A lover of high-speed driving, especially when drunk, from early youth, he regularly created problems on the roads of Moscow. In 2012, foreign media outlets (against the background of accusations of homophobia in Russian society and the football environment in particular) published photographs of Kokorin and Mamaev, where they hugged and kissed, and elevated the players to the rank of heroes. The guys were quick to refute the rumors about gay, explaining that they just love each other like brothers.
But the real recognition came to the "heroes" in 2016 after the shameful failure of the Russian team at the European Championship in France. Immediately after the departure of the national team in the group stage, Kokorin and Mamaev went to a party in Monaco, where, while resting in luxurious rooms, they drank champagne at 200 thousand euros per bottle. The public could not help but pay attention to such antics 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 TV shows, except perhaps the lazy ones did not talk about them. The guys were culturally resting in one of the institutions in Moscow, where, allegedly for no reason, one of the Moscow officials, who also rested in this institution, began to insult the guys. They could not forgive this and beat the upstart, not hesitating to use chairs and other improvised objects in a fight. But this time it was not possible to separate with fines and reprimands, a criminal case was opened against the brawlers and arrested for two months. At the moment, an investigation is underway and all the details and reasons for what happened are being clarified.
Personal life
For some time, the famous favorite of the yellow press met with the cousin of the musician Timothy, Victoria Smirnova, but her club life did not suit Alexander, and they parted. Then there were several more girls, whose relaxed behavior did not like the football player, and finally settled on the former passion of the same Timati, Daria Valitova. And in 2017, the couple had a child.
