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Moscow (AFP) – Russian foreign forward Alexander Kokorin, who spent almost a year on a night of drunken assaults, signed a three-year contract with Spartak Moscow, announced the club on Sunday.
Kokorin, 29, joined Zenit St. Petersburg after his release from the penalty last September, but was loaned to Sochi in February, scoring seven goals in 10 games to help the club avoid relegation.
“I need to be fit, help the team as much as I can and bring back the Spartak that everyone loves: offensive, effective and triumphant,” said Kokorin, who played for Russia at the 2014 World Cup and two European Championships in 2012. 2016 .
Including pre-trial detention, Kokorin served months of an 18-month sentence for vandalism, after he and fellow footballer Pavel Mamaev were convicted by a Moscow court in May 2019.
On an alcohol-filled night in October 2018, Mamaev and Kokorin attacked for the first time the driving force of a television presenter in a parking lot.
In a filmed assault, they then attacked two governments in a high-end café, hitting one with a chair.
The Russian Premier League has a lifetime ban on players at a time.
Instead, Kokorin will be on a Spartak team that finished in a disappointing seventh place last season and missed the European standings.
Kokorin, who won the last of his 48 internationalities in Russia in November 2017, may face his former club Sochi when the league’s new season begins next weekend.