Russian soccer players Kokorin and Mamaev leave prison

The two, along with Kiril, Kokorin's brother, they left the prison from the Blogorod region without making statements.

A court dict the past gives 6 the probation for footballers, sentence that entered into force on Tuesday.

The international soccer players were convicted on May 8 to 18 months in prison, in the case of Kokorin, and 17in that of Mamev, by hooliganism and aggression in two fights in October 2018 in the center of the capital, after which they were arrested and were held in preventive detention.

According to the ruling, Kokorin and Mamev They assaulted two officials in a café and the hostess of a presenter of Russian public television in the street.

In particular, the Zenit forward asest three strokes with a chair to Denis Pak, official of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, after it affected their behavior in coffee.

He Zenit, unlike the Krasnodar, has expressed its desire to recover his player, at the time the greatest promise of Russian football.

Kokorin's contract with Zenit expire on June 30but its attorneyYuri Badalko He told the Interfax agency today that the striker signed "a new contract" on Monday with the club

Meanwhile, the mamev contract with the Krasnodar expire at the end of the year, but its Football future is more uncertain.

According to the Vedomosti newspaper the club has already presented a request before the Russian Soccer Union for terminate the contract with the player.

The case had a great resonance in Russian society, where many condemned the attitude of both players and They pronounced in favor of a prison sentence.