Nikolay Yaremenko is a well—known sports journalist who has devoted more than 20 years to his work. Multiple winner of the National Award "Radiomania" in the nomination "Sports programs", academician of the Russian Academy of Radio, member of the Executive Committee of the Federation of Sports Journalists of Russia, author of books about sports.The last quarter of a century has brought much more changes to world and Russian football than the entire previous history of the most popular game in the world. The rules of the game were changing, the structure of European cups was changing (along with their number and principles of representation of countries), the financial component was strengthening. At the same time, scandals shook one of the monsters of the world sports movement — FIFA, as well as its Russian mini-analogue — the RFU. Sepp Blater, Michel Platini, Nikolai Tolstykh, Vitaly Mutko… All of them — with different sauce and with different nuances – were dismissed. And all this against the background of smaller scandals — fireworks in Europe, embarrassments with an unjustified increase in the "limit" on foreign players and, finally, the "cherry on the cake" - the notorious "fan card" — fan—ID.After the home World Cup, Russia received a wonderful legacy — modern stadiums. The football infrastructure has taken many steps forward at once. Why has football itself not made a sharp leap forward in Russia? And the world one took off, and even how! The author of the book is trying to find honest answers to this and other football questions.