About the book: 1986 / Nikolai Petrovich Starostin - head of the Moscow Spartak football team. His experience playing and working in football is unique - 68 years. Born in 1902, he began playing in 1918 in the Russian Geographical Society team. In 1922 - 1936 - right winger in the teams MKS, Krasnaya Presnya, Food Workers Dukat, Flour Grinders, Promkooperatsiya (all of them predecessors of Spartak) and, finally, in Spartak. He was one of the organizers and leaders of the voluntary sports society "Spartak".N. Starostin was a member of the national teams of Moscow (five-time national champion), RSFSR, USSR, and was the captain of these teams. He was a member of the management of Spartak during the years when the team became champion 8 times and won the USSR Cup 6 times. Among the first in 1934, he was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports. In 1937 he was awarded the Order of Lenin. He wrote the book “Stars of Big Football”».