With this amazing book, the reader will experience the history of football - as he would experience the history of his family. After all, if football truly penetrates the soul, it becomes an integral part of personal existence, another hidden religion of the Earth - and this is also what the book is about. In the book, football is born - in agony and screams, goes through a carefree childhood, receives professional status, goes to war, matures, rebels, reforms and finally becomes the way we see it today. Even a seasoned connoisseur will discover a lot of new things for himself: learns about the pioneers - the apostles of the game, about forgotten geniuses, about the history of the rules, about the fate of great football coaches and about the formation of famous English club brands, and even about the devilish penetration of money into the Olympic movement. The book is thoroughly imbued with humor and irony, and the reader is not at all afraid find yourself either at tough memorial games under the walls of Troy, or in front of a medieval scaffold, where Henry VIII liquidates yet another wife who has not lived up to his trust, or at a grandiose stadium in Rome, where people welcome Mussolini sitting in profile... Football is more than 150 years old - and just like an adult does not look like himself in childhood, and football has changed beyond recognition. What he was like, what he became, what was acquired and what was irretrievably lost - in the unique book of Sergei Surin.