About the book: 2021 / The main character of the book "The ball is round, the field is slippery" Valery Lobanovsky is offered to head the Almaty "Kairat" in 1969 " This is a little different from the world you all know. There are minor changes, since two years earlier the GG of the series of novels “Collective Farm Construction” by P. M. Tishkov entered this alternative history. In April 1969, Tishkov was a member of the Politburo and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan. Having decided to raise Kairat from the very bottom of the standings, he begins to assemble a team and help Soviet football as a whole - after all, the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico is just around the corner. The book can be read separately, although it is a spin-off of the series of novels “ Collective farm construction.” And whoever hasn’t read the series and is interested in the created world is welcome. I recommend starting with the fifth book. Fenimore Cooper wrote backwards, always giving out prequels. We must learn from the classics.