Goalkeeper, do not stick to the penalty. Football in the culture and history of Eastern Europe

"Goalkeeper, / do not stick to the penalty! / Poet, / Do not go into politics! ”, Wrote Evgeny Yevtushenko in 1989 in the poem“ Leo Yashin ", read at the Dynamo stadium before 60,000 spectators before the match in honor of the legendary goalkeeper. The book gives tribute to this poem to the famous hero not only of Soviet, but also world football and indicates the meaning of football, which goes beyond the scope of a sports spectacle. The collection is addressed to both experts and fans of the game and readers interested in football culture of Eastern Europe. It contains articles about this mass sport in literature, history, politics, art and everyday life. The book covers the space of Russia and Ukraine, Poland and Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Latvia and Hungary, Germany and Austria. We are talking about legendary football players - Lev Yashin, Valeria Lobanovsky, Ferenca Pushkash, about football fans in Poland and their traces in the modern city, about football in films and about the relationship of football with architecture and urban planning. The book includes a selection of short literary texts of authors from different countries of Eastern, Central and Southeast Europe, most of which are first published in Russian