The World Cup in Russia starts in 3 months, but the team is already bearing great losses. One of the leading football players of the country Alexander Kokorin was seriously injured and now will not be able to enter the field for 5-6 months. So he will definitely miss the upcoming tournament. Alexander during the match in the European League against the German club "Leipzig" fell into the field and could no longer continue the game. With tears in his eyes, he left the lawn on a medical electric car. After passing the medical examination, it was confirmed that a terrible trauma occurred-the rupture of the cruciate ligaments of the knee, according to the official website of FC Zenit,.

To date, in the infirmary of the Russian team are three leading players - defenders Georgi Jikiya (Spartak) and Viktor Vasin (CSKA), as well as striker Alexander Kokorin (Zenit). All of them will not help the team this summer. This season the scorer has played 35 matches in all tournaments and has scored 19 goals. For the national team Kokorin has been speaking since 2011. During this time he appeared on the field 48 times. World Cup 2018 will be held in 11 cities of Russia from June 14 to July 15.