MOSCOW, April 22 (RAPSI) - The Presnensky District Court of Moscow allowed the Zenit club doctor to visit the football player Alexander Kokorin charged with hooliganism in a detention center, lawyer Tatyana Stukalova stated on Monday on her Instagram page.

The defendants’ lawyers repeatedly emphasized the problems of the footballer with his knee due to a serious injury that led to a surgery in Italy in March 2018. The attorneys insisted that Kokorin must be supervised by specialists and perform special exercises that he cannot do in the detention center. It is expected that the doctor will be able to examine Kokorin on April 24 during a recess in the trial.

On April 17, the Moscow City Court upheld extension of detention of the footballers and two other defendants, Kokorin’s younger brother Kirill and children’s football coach Alexander Protasovitsky, until September 25.

The four men were arrested on October 11 and charged with hooliganism, battery and intended bodily injury.

The defendants initiated two fights in central Moscow in the early morning of October 11. According to the police, a driver of a Russian TV journalist received a nose fracture during the first incident on a street in central Moscow.

Two hours later, Ministry of industry and trade official Denis Pak and CEO of the Central Scientific Research Automobile and Automotive Engines Institute Sergey Gaysin were assaulted by the footballers in a coffee bar and had to undergo medical treatment, the police stated. Pak reportedly sustained a concussion. The café’s video records showed one of the sportsmen beating up Pak with chair.