Alexander Tkachenko's football notes are simple everyday football stories in which stadium conquerors appear as people, without the aura of public favorites. Plowmen of his gladiatorial work...Alexander Tkachenko was the favorite of the football Crimea. And not only. Silver medalist of the USSR Championship - 65 among reserves, played, in addition to Tavria, in Leningrad Zenit and Moscow Lokomotiv, but, alas, at the age of 25 he was forced to end his career due to a spinal injury. They claim that his first poems Alexander Petrovich began writing at the Central Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, where Zoya Sergeevna Mironova helped him get back on his feet. And now Tkachenko has already accumulated ten books of poetry. He is an honorary member of the American Writers' Center, a member of the Executive Committee of the International Parliament of Writers in Strasbourg, and at home he is the general director of the human rights writers' organization Russian PEN Club. This is what, it turns out, a football injury received in time can lead to.

On the cover: “Crucifixion by football.” The work of the author of the book. Canvas, oil. 60x90. 1976