The name Valery Gazzaev is well known to millions of football fans. Having completed his football career, the talented striker of the mid-seventies and eighties connected his future life with one of the most difficult sports professions, becoming a football coach. Selflessly devoted to his work, he was able to achieve outstanding success and received wide recognition not only in our country, but also abroad. The life path that the hero of Anatoly Zhitnukhin’s book passed was marked not only by sporting victories, but also by the bitterness of heavy defeats, dramatic turns in fate. He appears before the reader as a bright and extraordinary personality, as a person who is faithful and reliable in life, capable of defending his goals and principles to the end. The book is intended for a wide range of readers.