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 Alexandrovich Kokorin (surname at birth - Kartashov). Born March 19, 1991 in Valuyki, Belgorod Region. Russian footballer.

Since childhood, he has not parted with the ball. At the age of seven, he was noticed by the coach of the local sports school, who offered to study in the football section.

At the age of ten, he was called to the Moscow club "Spartak" for viewing. The coaches liked him, but the club did not have free housing. Fortunately, it was found in the boarding school of the capital's Lokomotiv, where Alexander lived for six years. His parents could only visit him once a quarter.

Once in Moscow at the age of 10, he learned to organize his life on his own - he washed clothes and cooked food himself. Scholarships were constantly in short supply.

Already in childhood, he was repeatedly recognized as the top scorer in various football competitions between Moscow sports schools.

“I became independent, in fact, from the age of ten, when I was left alone in Moscow in the Lokomotiv boarding school. The first two years were very difficult. My parents only came every three months. The scholarship was only enough to go to McDonald's once and that's it ... Every day of training. It only saved that friends were around ".

Before the 2008 season, Alexander signed a three-year contract with the Moscow "Dynamo". The club experienced difficulties with attackers, as a result of which the 17-year-old footballer made his debut in the Russian Premier League in the match of the 24th round Dynamo - Saturn (Moscow Region) and scored a goal in a match won by Dynamo with a score of 2: 1. He became the youngest goalscorer in the championship.

One of the 16 players who managed to score at the age of 17 in the top league of the championship of Russia. Scored his first goal on October 4, 2008 at the age of 17 years 199 days.

In the 2009 season, he entered the field for the first time in the 2nd round of the Russian Championship against Khimki and again scored a goal. The game ended with the victory of "Dynamo" with a score of 3:2. This year, Alexander took part in 23 matches of the Russian championship and in three matches of the Russian Cup, but scored the same 2 goals (the second - to Spartak Moscow) and received three yellow cards.

In 2010, he entered the field in 26 matches for Dynamo, but did not score a single goal.

In the 2011/2012 season, he first entered the field in the sixth round match against Anji and scored the first goal in the same match, equalizing the score, the match ended in a 2-2 draw. In total, Kokorin scored five goals in the championship. In addition, he scored two goals in the Russian Cup. Dynamo managed to reach the cup final, but there the Muscovites lost to Rubin 0:1. At the end of 2011, he was recognized as the best young football player in Russia.

Alexander Kokorin - the best young football player in Russia 2011

In February 2011, he signed a new contract with Dynamo for a period of 3.5 years.

In the new season, he scored three goals in the Europa League, hitting the gates of Dundee United (in two matches) and Stuttgart.

On September 22, 2012, in the 9th round of the championship in a home game against Amkar, he played the 100th anniversary match in the Russian Premier League.

On July 3, 2013, at a meeting of Dynamo directors, he said that he wanted to continue his career in "Anji". The release amount was € 19 million. On July 10, Anji's official website announced that Alexander would join the team in the coming days. However, on August 16, 2013 he returned to Dynamo without playing a single match for Anji. Together with him, Dynamo joined Igor Denisov and Yuri Zhirkov.

According to Sergei Stepashin, chairman of the Dynamo Supervisory Board, Alexander's salary was 5.5 million euros per year. On August 24, in a match against Zenit, he entered the field for the first time after returning to Dynamo, replacing him in the second half. In September 2013, he was recognized as the best player of the club according to the fans.

In the first round of the 2014/15 season, he made his first hat-trick in his career - he scored 3 goals against Rostov (7:3).

In the summer of 2015, he was appointed team captain, replacing Kevin Kuranyi. In the first match of the season, Alexander hit the gates of Zenit. Before the closing of the summer transfer window, it was announced that St. Petersburg Zenit, English Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur, as well as the French PSG were showing interest in the striker.

January 30, 2016 official website of the St. Petersburg club "Zenith" announced that Kokorin and his teammate Yuri Zhirkov would continue their careers as part of the Blue-White-Blues. Dynamo also had an offer from the London Arsenal, but it did not suit the Moscow club.

On September 11, 2012, in a qualifying match for the 2014 World Cup, against the Israeli national team, Kokorin scored his first goal for the national team. 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, Alexander spent three games as part of the national team and scored one goal against the Algerian national team, the match ended with a score of 1: 1.

Alexander Kokorin - goals for the Russian national team

The growth of Alexander Kokorin: 183 centimeters.

Personal life of Alexander Kokorin:

He had an affair with rapper Timati's cousin Victoria Smirnova. But then she went to study in London.

Then Christina Dolgopolova became his passion. With her, he went on vacation to the Maldives and the United Arab Emirates, she accompanied him to Euro 2012 in Poland. But in the fall of the same year, the couple broke up.

The next lady of the footballer's heart was (singer under the pseudonym Amelie).

The couple had a son in 2017.

At the moment when the football player met with Daria, he allowed himself entertainment with other girls. So, in December 2014, he was involved in a scandal in connection with going to the sauna with prostitutes - he posted a photo on his Twitter.

Alexander Kokorin in the sauna with priestesses of love

Even earlier, in 2013, the Network was blown up by his joint photos taken in Miami, where they went on vacation with such a strange couple.

In early July 2016, Kokorin and Mamaev became involved in another high-profile scandal related to the publication of information that the players spent 250 thousand euros on the party.

Alexander Kokorin himself said that the widespread information is not entirely true.

“It would be foolish to deny that we were present in this institution. This happened 4-5 days ago. Everyone who knows this place can confirm that there are always many Russian visitors there. So it was this time. Someone was celebrating a birthday, and we were just there. Naturally, everyone saw these ordered bottles, heard the Russian anthem, but why attribute the organization of all this to us? We have nothing to do with the bills for this party, or its surroundings, and with the money in question in the media, one could buy not only champagne, but the whole institution, ”Kokorin said.

The attack of Alexander Kokorin and Pavel Mamaev on Denis Pak:

In October 2018, Alexander Kokorin and Pavel Mamaev became defendants in the criminal chronicle: they were accused of attacking Denis Pak, an official of the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade. At the same time, in Coffeemania on Nikitsky Boulevard in Moscow.

On that day, the athletes celebrated the 10th anniversary of their friendship. According to media reports, when the players arrived, the staff thought they were drunk or drugged. They ordered only coffee for themselves, while their company behaved noisily. The staff tried to reassure friends, but failed. Then a regular customer of the coffee shop made a remark to them. Kokorin and Mamaev did not like this, and they beat the man right in the building, including throwing chairs at him. The person who suffered in the conflict with the players is Denis Pak, head of the department of the automotive industry and railway engineering of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Denis Pak's lawyer said that Kokorin and Mamaev mocked him on a national basis.

On the same day, Mamaev and Kokorin beat the driver of the Channel One TV presenter for making a remark to the brawlers and damaged her car. Ushakova filed a complaint with the police.

On May 8, 2019, the Presnensky Court of Moscow ruled. The court sentenced Alexander Kokorin to a year and six months in a penal colony, and Pavel Mamaev to a year and five months.

Team Achievements Alexandra Kokorina:

Dynamo (Moscow):

Bronze medalist of the Russian Championship: 2008
Russian Cup finalist: 2011/12

"Zenith":

Bronze medalist of the Russian Championship: 2016, 2017
Russian Cup Winner: 2015/16
Russian Super Cup Winner: 2016

Personal achievements of Alexander Kokorin:

The best young footballer of the Russian Premier League (winner of the First Five award): 2011
The author of the fastest goal in the history of the Russian national team: at the 19th second in the match against the Luxembourg team on September 6, 2013
In the list of 33 best football players of the Russian Championship: No. 1 (2012-13, 2013-14, 2017/18)

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 football section. Alexander immediately agreed. But since in native Valuyki football career you won't build 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

Official club career started at 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, Anji'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
DYNAMO (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.

One of the most famous young and successful players Russian football is Alexander Kokorin. His biography is ambiguous. It is replete with both victories and some unpleasant facts.

Childhood in Valuysk

Alexander was born on March 19, 1991 in the small town of Valuysk, Belgorod Region. At birth, his surname was Kartashov, but then his mother got married and the boy was given a new surname. From childhood, Alexander played football, the hobby was supported by his father, who became his first coach.

When the boy was in first grade, Ivan Kaverin came to school and gathered about 30 boys who wanted to play football. According to Kaverin, after a year of training, he saw that “Sasha is taller than his peers, he quickly outgrows them. Then we set the task with my parents to bring it to the team of masters.

Alexander Kokorin

The team participated in city, district, regional competitions. Alexander was invited to play for other teams in Belgorod, Orel, Sevastopol.

When Alexander was 9 years old, his parents took him to Moscow to watch at Spartak. Sasha forgot his shirt, and he was released onto the field only when his father bought a new one. The father did not like the attitude, and they returned home. A new opportunity to become a member of Spartak appeared in the summer of that year, when the boy was in a sports camp in Polushkino. But the club did not have a boarding school, and there was no point in even thinking about moving to Moscow with the whole family.

A little later, coach I. Kaverin called Lokomotiv and persuaded them to look at Kokorin. The boy was taken in, despite the fact that at that time he was not even 11 years old, and children over 14 lived in the boarding school.

Football player Alexander Kokorin

Alexander Kokorin played for Lokomotiv for 6 years. It was very difficult to live alone, there was not enough money, I had to do everything myself.

At the age of 13, the future football player received a serious injury to the knee joint and for 8 years was forced to undergo treatment in a Crimean sanatorium.

The beginning of a professional career

In 2008, Dynamo Moscow offered the young football player a contract for three years, which was extended in 2011 for another 3.5 years. Agreeing, Alexander Kokorin replenished his biography with the title of the youngest scorer in the Russian Premier League of that year, as well as the title of the best striker of the IV International Youth Tournament, the best football player 2011.

During the time that Kokorin played at Dynamo, he scored 50 goals:

Alexander Kokorin

• in 2008, on the ball in matches against Saturn from the Moscow Region and Moscow Lokomotiv, Moscow;
• three goals in 2009, two of them in the Russian Premier League, one in the Eurocup;
• seven goals in the 2011-2012 season, five of them in the League, two goals in the Russian Cup;
• thirteen in the 2012-2013 season: ten in the Premier League and three in the Eurocup;
• ten in RFPL in 2013-2014;
• ten in the 2014-2015 season: eight in the Premier League and two in the Eurocup;
• five goals in games 2015-2016

In 2013, Kokorin moved to Anji, but in less than two months he returned to Dynamo.

In the 2014-2015 season, Alexander Kokorin scored the first hat-trick in his career, scoring three goals against Rostov. And in the summer of 2015, he was appointed team captain, replacing Kevin Kuranyi.

Zenit (St. Petersburg)

In 2016, Kokorin moved to Zenit St. Petersburg. In the same year, he was transferred to Zenit-2 for misbehavior. Alexander Kokorin ruined his biography by having a party at the Twiga nightclub, Monte Carto, together with Pavel Mamaev. According to eyewitnesses, they left 250,000 euros at the club that night.

The beginning of the 2017-2018 season was successful for the football player - in the first matches he managed to score three goals and an assist. However, in March 2018, Alexander was injured and will not be able to play until the end of the season.

Playing for Zenit, Kokorin scored:

• in the 2015-2016 season - three goals;
• in 2016-2017 - ten goals, four of them in the Eurocup;
• in 2017-2018 - nineteen goals, of which nine in the Eurocup and ten in the League.

Kokorin plays for Zenit

Team games

Since 2009, Kokorin has played for the Russian youth team. In 2011 and 2013 he took part in the qualifying games of the European Youth Championship.

In Greece. In Euro 12, he played as a substitute in the game against the Czech Republic, but was injured and did not go on the field again. In September 2012, in a qualifying match for the 2014 World Cup, he scored a goal against the Israeli national team.

Kokorin during the game

In 2013, in a game against the Luxembourg national team, he managed to score the fastest goal in the history of the Russian national team - the ball hit the opponent's goal in the 21st second.

At the World Cup in Brazil in 2014, he entered the field as part of the national team in three games, scoring a goal with his head in the sixth minute of the match against Algeria. And in the game with Belgium, he could not realize a good moment, which greatly disappointed the fans.

In total, speaking for the Russian national team, Kokorin managed to score 12 goals:

• 2012 - one;
• 2013 - three;
• 2014 - three;
• 2015 - three;
• 2016 - two;
• 2017 - not a single goal.

Alexander Kokorin in the Russian national team

Family

Alexander met his future wife, singer Daria Valitova, in 2013. Before becoming a singer, Daria graduated from Alla Dukhova's Todes dance school and worked as a dancer for some time. The footballer and Amelie (Daria's stage name) started dating in 2014. According to some information, on June 4, 2017, the couple had a son.

The footballer married Daria Valitova

The 2017/2018 season was the most productive in the career of Alexander Kokorin. Unfortunately, due to the injury, he will probably not be able to take part in the World Cup, which will be held in the summer of 2018 in Russia.

Alexander Kokorin is a Russian football player who was called one of the most promising strikers of the Russian national team. He took his first steps in professional football as part of the Moscow Dynamo, since 2016 he played for the St. Petersburg Zenit, but after the scandal with the beating of a restaurant visitor in October 2018, the player’s career was in jeopardy.

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 good hit with both feet 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. Moscow team players, specialists and Main 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, putting new record 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.