Fedor Cherenkov. Zhivu tol'ko na pole - Rabiner Igor' Iakovlevich

Fedor Cherenkov was rightly called a "people's football player." He was loved by all - and not only spartak fans - the club to which he gave his whole life and for which he played a record number of matches, but also the army, Dynamo, fans from other cities and republics of the then Soviet Union. And when he was gone in 2014, he was only fifty-five years old! - More than 15,000 people came to the Spartak arena in Sokolniki to say goodbye to him. So many people in the history of domestic football buried only two: him and Eduard Streltsov. Their two, the most beloved, people and called affectionately, by the names: Edik and Fedya. And there was no need to explain who we were talking about.

The happy and tragic fate of this pure and bright man, a unique "artist of the game", is told in the book by Igor Rabiner and Vladimir Galedin. The authors (one of whom was acquainted with Cherenkov for a quarter of a century) had many hours of conversations with people who knew the most outstanding footballer - his closest friend and long-term partner at Spartak, his team-mates, both wives, daughter, many Other. Multiply all this with a thorough examination of the press for each year, cherenkov's in football and after it - and get a book that draws his multifaceted portrait based on a huge number of new facts for readers and placing a point over the "i" in numerous myths around his legendary name.