“Criminal Football” is the story of the confrontation between the Russian football mafia and a principled journalist who devoted his life to exposing it. The author explores the roots of corruption that has long plagued Russian football from top to bottom, and introduces readers to an entire “team” that has persistently and consistently driven Russian football into the deepest hole. It includes officials of the highest rank (starting with the once “unsinkable” Koloskov), and dubious businessmen with a dark past (such as Esaulenko or the late sports gangster authority Otari Kvantrishvili), and even coaches with a once impeccable reputation (such as Oleg Romantsev). Murders and bribery, blackmail and fraud, unscrupulous refereeing and match-fixing - all these dark sides of the “game of millions” did not arise yesterday and did not disappear anywhere after the brilliant performance of the Russian national team at the European Championship. How to get Russian football out of the criminal hole? Will “football minister” Mutko be able to do this? Look for answers in the book by Alexey Matveev.