MOSCOW, Oct 17 Cypriot «Aris» player Alexander Kokorin said that did not want to return to Russia, and also admitted that he was looking for options to continue his career through social networks. Previously, Aris rented Kokorin from the Italian Fiorentina, to which he moved in January 2021 from Spartak Moscow. This season, the striker has played five matches in the Cypriot championship, in which he scored two goals. «Before coming to Aris, I could have been in Russia. I turned to Fiorentina for the first time when these incomprehensible stories with additional applications arose. I myself came in. He said that I have an option and I want to leave. I could have ended up in Russia earlier, but I didn’t want to return. I weighed the pros and cons. I realized that I want to play in a city where there will be better conditions for life , a school for a child, and so on,» Kokorin said in an interview published on the YouTube channel of journalist Nobel Arustamyan. «There were options in Turkey and Hungary, which I myself found on social networks. I wrote to old acquaintances. I wrote not to agents, but to my friends. I understood where they were, in what countries. I wrote: «If there is an option, tell your agents that I am ready to leave.» (Kevin) Kuranyi helped me with Aris. The owner of Aris wrote to Kevin himself» — added Kokorin.
