Football: a frank story of what is actually happening

The last two years have become rotary in world and Russian football: scandals have shook one of the monsters of the world sports movement - FIFA and its Russian counterpart - RFU, their leaders - Zepp Blatter and Nikolai Tolstykh resigned. And all this against the backdrop of smaller scandals with the notorious financial fireworks and embarrassment with an unjustified strengthening of the “limit” for legionnaires.

And before the “home” World Cup 2018, there was less and less time. The contours of the future team have been clear for a long time, and this, alas, did not inspire optimism in the fans. What is not only the team, but also our football as a whole approached the main football championship of the planet? The author of the book, a well-known sports journalist, is trying to find honest answers to this and other football questions.

Nikolai Yaremenko-the author of several books about sports, including the bestsellers “Football will kill Russia”, “Football in 3D scandals : Dengi, Duraki, Directory ”,“ Football on the verge of a nervous breakdown ”. Academician of the Russian Academy of Radio (RAR), leading for eight years of the popular morning radio show "Conspiracy theory", multiple laureate of the National RadioMania National Radio Building. For many years he worked as the editor -in -chief of Radio Sport, from where he independently left at the end of 2013 as a sign of protest against the introduction of censorship and the ban on criticizing the Olympiad in Sochi. SC 2017, works as the editor -in -chief of the country's oldest sports publication - Soviet Sports. As a result, the newspaper gained its face, its style, again gained popularity in the market due to its bright and non -banal materials.