The famous ex-football player of Zenit and the Russian national team Alexander Kerzhakov, who was once robbed of $ 11 million, fled Russia with his family and spoke out against the war. According to the best scorer in the history of Russian football, he was afraid of what was happening in the country.
Is this immigration? No. We just understood that in the current situation we wanted to go somewhere warm and just be there, and not in Russia. told the 40-year-old Alexander Kerzhakov in an interview with the YouTube channel of journalist Nobel Arustamyan. - Do not leave, do not disown your homeland, but simply leave during this period of time and stay somewhere far away.
For every day you see, you read the news. Understanding and awareness of the magnitude of everything that happens comes to you. It became very hard for me, my wife too, and we left.
What does not suit me in what is happening in Russia? It is very difficult to speak in such a way that it does not affect anything. This is one of the biggest problems in Russia. I’m terrified. I never could believe it was possible. After almost every interview, when I was asked what my main desire was, I always answered: “So that there is no war.” In the world. At all. I don’t understand how this is possible in such a modern and progressive society. It doesn’t fit in my mind. How f*cking times have come that all conversations come down to one … “
Note that during his career, Alexander Kerzhakov played for Zenit, Dynamo Moscow, Sevilla and Zurich. The famous striker is a three-time champion of Russia, winner of the Russian Cup and Super Cup. As part of the Spanish club, he won the UEFA Cup, as well as the Cup and the Super Cup of the country, and in the Swiss T-shirt, the national Cup. Kerzhakov is the top scorer in the history of Russian football (233 goals), Zenit (161) and the Russian national team (30 goals each with Artem Dzyuba). In the coaching field, Kerzhakov headed Tom, Nizhny Novgorod and in 2023 the Cypriot Karmiotissa, with whom he had not worked for even three months.
By the way, in 2012, the famous football player, accused of domestic violence, was a confidant of Vladimir Putin in the presidential elections in Russia.
Earlier reported that a football player from Russia was eliminated in the war in Ukraine.
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