Thousands of books have been written about Soviet football, but the book that the reader holds in his hands can be called unique - there has definitely never been anything like it. It shows Soviet football not only from the facade, but also looks behind the scenes. On the pages of the book we will see members of the Central Committee who made the game beloved by millions a weapon in their behind-the-scenes battles, and the all-Union mafia that formed around the underground football betting, and FIFA’s intrigues against Soviet football, and the assassination attempt on Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev. Despite the fact that Yuri Andropov is involved in the fight against the football mafia, the Ukrainian group in the CPSU Central Committee actively opposes him, and the all-powerful chairman of the KGB of the USSR can do little... But the main character of this book is Soviet football and its best representatives, football players and coaches, such as Konstantin Beskov. This book by the famous Russian writer Fyodor Razzakov is undoubtedly the best work of the author, in which politics and sports, detective and spy novels are organically intertwined. It will bring true pleasure to both football fans and fans of the action-packed genre; it will grip the reader tenaciously and will not let go until the very end.