Sports magazine "Football and Hockey". Moscow: Moskovskaya Pravda Publishing House, 1963

The cult weekly "Football" appeared as a Sunday supplement to the publication "Soviet Sport" – the separation took place only 30 years later. The idea of creating it at the plenum was proposed by the chairman of the USSR Football Federation, Valentin Granatkin – he believed that the press poorly understood Soviet football and needed a separate publication. The first issue of the magazine includes comments by Konstantin Beskov, the Starostin brothers, an article about Pele and other famous football players.

In December 1967, when the first international hockey tournament was held in Moscow, "Football" turned into "Football-Hockey", and a portrait of a hockey player appeared on the cover of the 49th issue. In 1967, the weekly was renamed "Football-Hockey". In the editorial column, this action was justified by the increased popularity of this sport, however, the famous unofficial version – Leonid Brezhnev directly influenced the renaming.

One of the former editors–in-chief of the magazine, Pyotr Kamenchenko, recalled in his interviews how, as a child, the magazine quickly scattered in kiosks, so it remained difficult to access: "Football" was extremely difficult to get at that time. It cost five kopecks and was sold uncut, so it had to be cut with a comb. They wore special combs. He had a huge circulation: it was said that the real circulation was larger than that of the newspaper Pravda. At the same time, the subscription limit was serious. To subscribe to "Football", you had to have a serious scam or sign up at work through the trade union committee. He disappeared at the kiosk at 8-9 in the morning, was sold on Saturdays"