My French double. Life before and after triumph

In the life of football player Alexander Panov was everything: difficult childhood and bad companies, alcohol and drugs, the fight against oneself and circumstances. And it was football that became that he was able to radically change his life, to force to believe in himself and his strength. The athlete made a difficult journey from a children"s football school to the “foundation” of Zenit and the Russian national team, which in 1999 made a famous double in a guest match for the “herd de France” into the gate of the world"s champions, the national team of France. These two goals became fateful for the Kolpino rocket, finally fixing the status of a star of Russian football behind him.
In his memoirs, Panov’s extremely frankly talks about how he became one of the leading domestic football players from a “difficult teenager”, recalls unknown details of football backstage, shares his thoughts about the past and future of Russian football