Former Zenit head coach Mircea Lucescu shared his opinion on the situation with a possible lease of striker Alexander Kokorin in Sochi.
– Kokorin leaves the Zenith. You know?
– Yes? Very sorry. Where to?
– In Sochi”. This team is still in the Premier League in last, 16th place.
– It is a pity that he leaves. A very talented player, one of the most gifted in Russia. It would be good for him to go abroad, restart his career there. Maybe then Kokorin will even return to the national team. I hope so.
“Dick Lawyer said he wanted to work with him at Feyenoord.” But the striker ended up in Sochi. How do you explain this?
– I suppose that not everyone at Zenit wants to have a player with such problems and history.
– That is, the move to Sochi is a consequence of being behind bars?
– Yes. Large clubs cannot afford to have such a player on the team. It doesn’t matter how Kokorin will play – in any case, at all matches, meetings, press conferences he will be reminded of what happened. And it is important for him to leave the country, continue his career in another team and return to Russia in a year or two.
“But he remains.” What to expect?
– He made such a decision, and this is a problem … Alexander will have a hard time, because it’s one thing to play for Zenit and fight for the championship, and it’s quite another to play for an outsider and fight for survival.
I hope in “Sochi” Kokorin will be able to return to its previous form. It is a pity that the guy spent the most important period of his professional career in prison. But he has a strong character, I believe in him.
– And the fact that Kokorin will ever play for Zenit?
– I think that he will not return. I understand what is happening. And I know what I’m talking about, ”said Lucescu.
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