More recently, the names of Kokorin and Mamaev were associated by all domestic sports fans with the leading football clubs in our country: Zenit and Krasnodar. Today the prefix “former” has already been attached to these athletes, but interest in them is not decreasing. After all, the former leaders of their recent teams and even the Russian national team in the world's most popular sport, after all the well-known hooligan actions, irrevocably ruined their professional careers, and also disappointed many football fans with their lack of fulfillment.
Currently, interest in football in our country is incredibly high, which is associated not only with the healthy lifestyle cultivated by all the media, but also with the recently held title international event "World Cup 2018" in Russia. And, of course, all the leading footballers of the country, as they say, have become the "heroes of the nation" by default.
What can we say, when, against this background, the best player in the country, according to many versions of experts, Kokorin, together with his friend Mamaev (also a rating footballer), falls into a scandalous story that has ended at the moment with a trial and detention in a pre-trial detention center.
The celebration, associated with the tenth anniversary of friendship between Kokorin and Mamaev, began in a rented Sapsan carriage, following the St. Petersburg - Moscow route. According to blogger Danil Poperechnoi, the football-friendly tandem behaved like "beasts and cattle". Mash points out in their feature article that they yelled loudly at the passengers and conductors, and drank all alcoholic drinks at the bar. However, the responsible persons of Russian Railways in their official statement denied information about this debauch.
Monday morning began with a fight in a coffee shop on Nikitskaya. Kokorin stabbed Denis Pak (an official of the Ministry of Industry and Trade) with a chair, which, by the way, was recorded on video. In addition, the general director of "NAMI" Sergei Gaisin was also injured. The incident began with the fact that Park made a remark to the players who behaved, to put it mildly, indecent. "Some Chinese" (identification of the official by famous football players), the sportsmen, who were hot with alcohol, began to beat them to the words of the South Korean song Gangnam Style (PSY).
Only thanks to the prompt intervention of Pak's driver, who was able to seize the flash drive from the video, valuable evidence was able to get into the investigation materials. The athletes themselves, despite the operatives on duty in the cafe, offered the guards a bribe of 5 million rubles for her.
Currently, this offense is classified by the investigation as "beatings" (up to 2 years in prison), however, the victims' lawyers intend to achieve an article classifying this act as "hooliganism", which provides for a punishment of up to 5 years in prison.
And a few hours before the aforementioned events in the coffee shop, the players attacked the driver of Olga Ushakova (the host of Channel One), who turned out to be thirty-three-year-old Vitaly Solovchuk. According to the victim, who was in intensive care, he was beaten so that "blood gushed from his ears." In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, the TV presenter noted that there are very strong blood stains inside the cabin and on the body of the car. And, in addition, there was a strong dent on the side of the vehicle from the fall of the driver after being hit by the hooligans.
This citizen of Belarus received a serious craniocerebral injury, multiple bruises of the soft tissues of the face and a fracture of the nasal bones. He also lost a lot of blood. Moreover, during the beating of Vitaly Solovchuk, they warned that he did not even think about filing a complaint with the police. This kind of cynicism is simply shocking to many, because the idols of millions of Russian fans saw in them exclusively honored sportsmen who are making great efforts to ascend Russia to the pedestal of world football.
According to Sport24, FC Zenit initiated parting with Kokorin. Officials of FC Krasnodar also confirmed the fact of breaking the contract with Mamaev. Additionally, it became known from the radio station "Moscow Says" that the RFU made a decision on the lifelong suspension of Kokorin and Mamaev from participating in football activities in Russia. Even the Kremlin, represented by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, reacted very sharply to this egregious behavior of the athletes.
“The preliminary hearing in the case of the Kokorin brothers, Mamaev and Protasovitsky is scheduled for April 3, at 14:00 Moscow time. The preliminary hearing is held behind closed doors, only the announcement of the ruling following the results of the court session is open to listeners,”said Alexei Chernikov, a representative of the Presnensky Court of Moscow. Alexander Protasovitsky (LFL midfielder) is the fourth defendant in the case of the “brothers Kokorin and Mamaev”.
It is surprising that in the memory of football fans Alexander Kokorin and Pavel Mamaev will remain not the best players of their generation, namely, notorious football players who could not adequately cope with the weight of the "crown of fame and fame."
