Football: The Honest Story of What Is Happening

The last two years have been pivotal in world and Russian football: scandals have shaken one of the giants of the global sports movement - FIFA and its Russian counterpart - RFU, with their leaders - Sepp Blatter and Nikolai... Tolstykh - resigning. And all this against the backdrop of smaller scandals with the notorious financial fair play and confusion with the unjustified tightening of the "limit" on legionnaires.
And with less and less time left before the "home" World Cup 2018. The outlines of the future national team had been clear for a long time, and unfortunately, this did not inspire optimism among the fans. With what did both the national team and our football as a whole approach the main football championship of the planet? The author of the book, a well-known sports journalist, tries to find honest answers to this and other football questions.
Nikolai Yaremenko is the author of several books on sports, including bestsellers "Football Will Kill Russia", "Football in 3D-Scandals: Money, Fools, Agreements", "Football on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown". Academician of the Russian Academy of Radio (RAR), host of the popular morning radio show "Conspiracy Theory" for eight years, multiple laureate of the National Radio Prize "Radiomania". He worked for many years as the editor-in-chief of "Radio Sports", from which he left independently at the end of 2013 in protest against the introduction of censorship and the ban on criticism of the Sochi Olympics.
Since 2017, he has been the editor-in-chief of the country's oldest sports publication - "Soviet Sport". As a result, the newspaper regained its face, its style, and regained popularity in the market thanks to its bright and unconventional materials.