''Football'' () was a weekly
magazine
A magazine is a periodical literature, periodical publication, print or digital, produced on a regular schedule, that contains any of a variety of subject-oriented textual and visual content (media), content forms. Magazines are generally fin ...
about football and hockey, published since May 1960 until June 2019. It was a main informational partner of the
Football Federation of the Soviet Union.
Since 1964 it was conducting polls for the main annual footballers' honours known as the
Soviet Footballer of the Year and later
Footballer of the Year in Russia. It is a media sponsor of the Russian Football Union and the Professional Football League. Since January 2007, in each room are printed posters of teams and players.
History
The first ''Football'' weekly issue was published May 29, 1960 as a
Sunday magazine
A Sunday magazine is a publication inserted into a Sunday newspaper. It also has been known as a Sunday supplement (publishing), supplement, Sunday newspaper magazine or Sunday magazine section. Traditionally, the articles in these magazines cover ...
of
Sovetsky Sport
''Sovetsky Sport'' (; English: Soviet Sports) is a Russian national daily sports newspaper. Until 19 March 1946 the newspaper was called ''Red Sports'' (Russian: Красный спорт), it was not printed between 1928 and 1932.
History
Fo ...
. Before that, the chairman of Football Federation of the Soviet Union
Valentin Granatkin on one of said plenums of the alleged publication of the journal.
In 1967, the weekly was renamed the ''Football-Ice Hockey''. In an editorial column of this action was justified by the increased popularity of the sport. During
perestroyka in one of the articles it has been written that the reason for the name change was the desire of one of the approximate
Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 190610 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev, his death in 1982 as w ...
. The publication came out at 16 black and white pages.
At the initiative of
Konstantin Yesenin was established
Grigory Fedotov club. In May 2015 the weekly renamed ''Football-Ice Hockey'', published information and statistical annex ''90 minutes''.
The editors
* Martyn Merzhanov (1960-1966)
* Lev Filatov (1966-1983)
* Gennady Radchuk (1983-1984)
*
Viktor Ponedelnik
Viktor Vladimirovich Ponedelnik (, 22 May 1937 – 5 December 2020) was a Russian footballer and manager, who played for the Soviet Union national team.
Biography
Ponedelnik first started playing for a local team, Rostselmash, in 1956. In ...
(1984-1990)
* Oleg Kucherenko (1990-2004)
* Pyotr Kamenchenko (2004-2013)
* Denis Vdovin (2013-2019)
Interesting facts
In the American film ''
Red Dawn'' (1984) on the counter placed weekly No. 21 for the year 1983 (the scene visits teens shop in the city, occupied by the
Soviet army
The Soviet Ground Forces () was the land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1946 to 1992. It was preceded by the Red Army.
After the Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 1991, the Ground Forces remained under th ...
).
Голливуд и Футбол-Хоккей
(in Russian)
References
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External links
Official websiteFootball News NetworkБлог еженедельника «Футбол»
Russian-language magazines
1960 establishments in Russia
Association football magazines
Magazines established in 1960
Sports magazines published in Russia
Weekly magazines published in Russia