“Kokorin hit Pak on the arm with a chair. But they painted everything as if he had put it with a sledgehammer” – Chochiev

A friend of Alexander Kokorin, Alan Chochiev, recalled the situation due to which the former forward of the Russian national team received a prison sentence.

On October 8, 2018, Kokorin and Mamaev became participants in two fights in the center of Moscow, during which several people were injured. In May, the Presnensky Court of Moscow sent the players to a colony – Mamaev received a term of one year and five months in prison, Kokorin – for one year and six months.

– You probably remember that morning when you found out what Kokorin got into.

— I was in Samara. Sasha called me via video link early in the morning – as soon as he left Coffeemania. It was clear from his eyes that he knew that something bad was going to happen. He told me right away what happened.

— And how?

– Both in the first and in the second situation they were provoked. This driver, Solovchuk, called Sasha a “rooster”. Everything was heard on the DVR camera. Sanya tried to resolve the conflict: “Sorry, and we’ll go.” Solovchuk refused: “No, I think you are a cock.” A fight started. I wonder if Solovchuk would have spoken like that if there were MMA fighters in the place of Sasha and Pasha.

– And in the situation with Pak, which was after, what kind of provocation?

– Firstly, I did not understand why he initially came and sat down next to the noisy company of Sasha and Pasha, given that the entire Coffeemania was empty. He could sit anywhere so as not to hear people talking loudly or swearing. Secondly, what normal person would reprimand a large crowd for talking loudly? It’s me in Ossetia that I can come up and ask about this, because it’s not customary in our country. And in Moscow such things do not work. As a result, he insulted them, and Sasha hit him on the arm with a chair. But they painted everything, of course, as if he had put it with a sledgehammer, – Sport24 quotes Chochiev.