FIFA World Cup Russia 2018

Russia’s main football arena for 2018 World Cup to be commissioned in December 2016. Reconstruction works at the Luzhniki Arena were launched in 2013 and after the works are completed the stadium will boost the spectators’ capacity of over 81,000 seats

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Over 60,000 apply for volunteer work at 2018 World Cup — minister

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Russia to fulfill all guarantees regarding preparation for 2018 FIFA World Cup — deputy PM

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Wolf chosen as mascot of 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia

The author of the wolf mascot is Yekaterina Bocharova, student at the Tomsk State University’s graphic design college



MOSCOW, October 22. /TASS/. A wolf has been chosen as mascot of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, according to the results of public voting announced live in the "Vecherny Urgant" TV program on Channel One on Saturday. The wolf will be named Zabivaka.

Public voting was launched on September 23 on FIFA’s official website and social networks and closed at 8:18pm Moscow time on Thursday. On Friday, people could also cast their votes for a mascot on the Channel One’s official website.

The campaign on choosing a mascot kicked off in April 2015 with voting for possible characters. Over 50,000 young fans took part in voting and chose ten most popular characters. At the second stage of the campaign, students of arts colleges across the country came into play, attempting to "bring to life" these characters.

The author of the wolf mascot is Yekaterina Bocharova, student at the Tomsk State University’s graphic design college. Among finalists of the voting are also a cat and a tiger.
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MOSCOW, June 2. /TASS/. Moscow’s legendary sports arena Luzhniki, which was built in the 1950s, underwent reconstruction works and was granted a permission to be commissioned ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin announced on Friday.

"Luzhniki is now ready as a stadium," Sobyanin said on air of Rossiya-24 television channel. "A commissioning report was signed today."

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Progress on World Cup stadium construction (pics), not bad at all:

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Original Trophy Tour starts at Moscow Luzhniki stadium

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and FIFA’s Head Gianni Infantino launched the tour

MOSCOW, September 9. /TASS/. The tour of FIFA World Cup trophy began on Saturday at Moscow’s Luzhniki stadium. Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and FIFA’s Head Gianni Infantino launched the tour.

The ceremony also featured football legends Brazil’s Jose Roberto Gama de Oliveira (Bebeto) and David Trezeguet (France).

Prior to the ceremony, the newly opened arena hosted blitz tournaments between students of Moscow football schools and prominent Russian football players gave master classes to the young athletes.

The stadium's spectator capacity is 81,000 seats, the arena will receive seven games of the 2018 World Cup, including the opening and the final games.

This is the second grand reconstruction of the stadium, which was initially built in 1957. The first major repair works on the stadium took place in the run-up to the 1980 Summer Olympic Games in Moscow.


The Trophy will visit Russia’s 24 cities:

The tour will have most stops in Russia. The first part of the Russian route is Krasnoyarsk (September 10-11), Omsk (September 16-17), Chelyabinsk (September 23-24), Ufa (September 29 - October 1), Perm (October 3-4), Saransk (October 7), Yaroslavl (October 11-12), Kaliningrad (October 14-15), Tula (October 17-18), Kursk (October 21-22), Voronezh (October 27-29), Saratov (November 4-6), Volgograd (November 11-12), Krasnodar (November 17-19), Sochi (November 24-26), and then Moscow, where on 1 December will be the draw for the group stage of the final stage. In the second part, the Cup will visit Vladivostok (May 1-4), Novosibirsk (May 5-, Ekaterinburg (May 9-12), Samara (May 13-16), Kazan (May 17-20), Nizhny Novgorod (May 21-24), Rostov-on-don (May 25-28), St. Petersburg (May 29 - June 2), and from the 3rd to 7th of June the trophy will again come to Moscow to be exhibited there.

The country selected 11 host cities to be the venues for the matches of the 2018 World Cup and they are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan, Saransk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and Samara.

The matches of the 2018 World Cup will be held between June 14 and July 15 at 12 stadiums located in the 11 above-mentioned cities across Russia. Two of the stadiums are located in the Russian capital.


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FIFA World Cup 2018 draw. Russia gets S.Arabia, Egypt and Uruguay

Placido Domingo, Juan Diego Flores to perform during 2018 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony

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FIFA World Cup trophy returns to Moscow after global tour

The FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour kicked off on September 9 in Moscow and traveled across Russian cities until December, when it continued its journey abroad visiting over 50 countries



MOSCOW, June 3. /TASS/. The much-coveted FIFA World Cup Trophy returned to Moscow after travelling to more than 50 countries during its over nine-month global tour dedicated to the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which kicks off in Russia this month, TASS reports from the scene.

The FIFA World Cup Trophy was shown to journalists, young athletes, guests and residents of Moscow and the Moscow Region on Sunday.

The presentation ceremony was attended by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Local Organizing Committee Director General Alexei Sorokin, Ambassador for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, titled rhythmic gymnast Lyasan Utiasheva, 1990 FIFA World Cup champion Lothar Mattheus (Germany) and Project Manager of the Coca Cola System in Russia for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Preparations Mikael Vine.

"Moscow is a sports capital: we hosted the Olympic Games [in 1980] and dozens of world championships in various disciplines," the Moscow mayor said.

"Today Moscow is becoming the world’s football capital and we are receiving as a long-time friend the World Cup Trophy, which already was in Moscow and then traveled through dozens and hundreds of cities and again returned to Moscow. We are waiting together with football fans and football followers from all over the world the referee’s first whistle at the Luzhniki main arena. All of Moscow’s guests will enjoy not only football and top-class stadiums but also a splendid city: museums, theaters, parks and, what is the main thing, the smiles and hospitality of Muscovites," the Moscow mayor said.

The FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour kicked off on September 9 in the Russian capital of Moscow and traveled across Russian cities until December, when it continued its journey abroad visiting over 50 countries across six continents.

According to FIFA, the Trophy tour "is a rare opportunity for fans to see the Original Trophy up close and have their experience captured with a photograph."

"It’s an exciting and exclusive experience since the Trophy is otherwise only displayed at the FIFA World Football Museum in Zurich, during the FIFA World Cup Final Draw and at the final match of every FIFA World Cup."

The tradition of putting the Trophy on the journey around the globe ahead of the quadrennial football championship was launched ahead of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. The Trophy Tour in 2006 visited 29 countries and saw over 175,000 football fans taking pictures next to the FIFA World Cup Trophy.


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Russia!!!!!!

Looks like British Terrorist Mi6 agencies  were behind the first terrorist attack in World CUp 2018.

Russia government claims was "accident" , but if you look at the video , it have all the signature
of a terrorist attack...

British media have the exclusive , surprising?
things to observe...

1)Cameraman was in the right place and the right time ,and in a perfect angle , filmed all from a high altitude..
and had the car all the time in the center of the filming..so suggest previous knowledge of something was going to happen and perhaps cameraman was from high position or was remote controlled camera . The camera was NOT static.. it was following the car all the time.. so it being in the right place at all times.. and knowing where to film.
2) The taxi car do a maneuver that avoid hitting the car in the front at the right time.. shows there was good coordination reflex from the driver until that time..  but to a quick right turn , running above civilians ,then the
taxi car stop but the driver try to continue advancing risking ramming more civilians and after being confronted by civilians who opens the door ,he goes on the run..
3)the Taxi driver was from Kyrzigistan.. a Muslin.. surprise?

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/world-cup-2018-horror-mexican-12722910

accidents are possible for anyone. But this mans cannot claim a heart attack since avoided very well to crash with the car in the front ,and then after stopping his car , runs very fast to escape the crime scene ,. Shows total lack of
empathy for the people he rammed.. he should be through in a jail for lifetime...  This also should question Muslins in Russia in taxi positions , that could be used as a weapon. Probably the terrorist was paid big money his family
for this terrorist attack..  all this Knife attacks ,Car ramming ,acids attacks ,fire attacks on  buildings or bomb attacks all are almost exclusive tactics of radical muslins..

The entire thing looks pretty mush a small scale british government Mi6 operation with US support.. British Media have the exclusive of this attack.. and the camera was suspiciously in the right place ,filmed all ..

US government even on Friday told about terrorist attack risk on Russia..

The U.S. State Department on Friday updated its travel advice on Russia, saying terrorist groups were plotting attacks.

"Terrorists may attack with little or no warning, targeting tourist locations, transportation hubs, markets/shopping malls, and local government facilities," the travel advice stated.

The guy did not fall asleep.. this is BULLSHIT... notice in the video how the man do a right turn very violently
to avoid hitting the car in the front.. and then continue ramming people without stopping until hits a sign.

The good news is that doesn't look majority of people suffered major life threatening wounds. But Russia government will have ask question who was the operator of the camera and ask British government how they so quickly got the information.  it smell like another Terror attack on Russia by British Government  sponsored terrorist.

Is Russia going to win this? They're trashing Egypt right now 3-0.

3-1 Russia

If they actually go ahead and win WC2018 I expect massive scenes globally.

#RussiaHackedit

Everyone said Russia was shit before the tournament. But they forget that Russia won't really get a ranking if its not in a qualification group - as happens for the hosts.

In fairness, Russia was also very entertaining in terms of its pressing style too. Historically, Russia hasn't had a bad set of results in the European Championships.
Perhaps its players aren't as worn out as players in the EU leagues.

Ofcourse even accounting for this, it would be funny if Russia DID do really well in the World Cup. The amount of butthurt and faggotry from the globalist-libtard Western press would be absolutely hilarious. Bearing in mind the Olympics and that shitty Eurovision have become joke competetions due to Russia-hatred by the usual tossers.

Firebird wrote:Ofcourse even accounting for this, it would be funny if Russia DID do really well in the World Cup. The amount of butthurt and faggotry from the globalist-libtard Western press would be absolutely hilarious. Bearing in mind the Olympics and that shitty Eurovision have become joke competetions due to Russia-hatred by the usual tossers.

Absolute scenes will happen, if they win this.
On a positive note vlogers love it in Russia and like the people, landmarks (watch below after 12:15)

So Russia are now confirmed through to the round of 16.    

Most likely gonna be Spain or Portugal as their opponents. Whats the preference for you guys, especially Russians?

Not much to choose btween Spain and Portugal. If Ronaldo had an "unfortnate accident", Portugal don't have masses of quality elsewhere.
Spain do have a number of good players.

Its not an easy last 16 draw for Russia tho. I mean some teams have an easy last 16.

Still, on recent performances Russia can take either out. Slightly harder with VAR. Because before then, crowds could intimidate referees more.

Spain v CR7 was a great game. But both struggled in their second game. If they play like that Russia can beat both of them.

Quick question, which may be stupid.

Most of the Russian supporters seem to be simply chanting Russia, Russia throughout the matches. I haven't really noticed any other kind of cheering, or singing/chanting from the Russians. Why is this?

Seen the Serbia vs Switzerland game.


Disgusting German pigs.

Can you tell me why in a game against Switzerland there are three German field referees and an additional two German video referees?

Five German referees in total, in a game essentially involving a German state.

I had a bad feeling about them before the match even started.


They robbed Serbia of the penalty shot when two Swiss players tackled that Serb deep in the penalty area.

It should have been 2:2.


And that happened on 22 June.

A blatant insult to the millions of Russians and Serbs killed in the Second World War.


Disgusting. Utterly disgusting.


And who to hell put the Uruguayan referees in charge of the Iran vs Spain game?

Fuck this world cup.

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Seen the Serbia vs Switzerland game.


Disgusting German pigs.

Can you tell me why in a game against Switzerland there are three German field referees and an additional two German video referees?

Five German referees in total, in a game essentially involving a German state.

I had a bad feeling about them before the match even started.


They robbed Serbia of the penalty shot when two Swiss players tackled that Serb deep in the penalty area.

It should have been 2:2.


And that happened on 22 June.

A blatant insult to the millions of Russians and Serbs killed in the Second World War.


Disgusting. Utterly disgusting.


And who to hell put the Uruguayan referees in charge of the Iran vs Spain game?

Fuck this world cup.

Serbia should have and could have scored 1 more. It's mostly their fault, penalties aside.

Odin of Ossetia wrote:
Seen the Serbia vs Switzerland game.

Disgusting German pigs.

Can you tell me why in a game against Switzerland there are three German field referees and an additional two German video referees?

Five German referees in total, in a game essentially involving a German state.

I had a bad feeling about them before the match even started.

They robbed Serbia of the penalty shot when two Swiss players tackled that Serb deep in the penalty area.
........

While I appreciate your concern this fuckup lies solely on our clownshow "team"

They knew going in that referees would he biased. They always are and it has stopped being excuse for losing decades ago.

The moment they saw referee list they should have been twice as ready even if they were all born yesterday. No excuses.


Swiss played they whole 90 minutes, our primadonas stopped playing after 10 minutes.

I didn't even watch the second half because it was clear as day that Swiss would win at some point, they wanted it more and kept pressing the offence while Serbs did what they always do: score one goal and then play defense.

Who the fuck plays defense? You only play defense if you are already eliminated from competition and you have no reason to bother. Otherwise you always play offence until last second of the match. Exactly what Swiss did. What any half decent team always does.

Just look at our waterpolo team for example: if allowed they would drown the other team with their own two hands if it meant that they can score a goal even if they lead by 20. No stopping, no defensive play, no bullshittery, always go for maximum score.

Football "team" always play like bunch​ of lazy ass pussies, slacking off the moment they start "winning".

Good news for them is that they play Brazil next so they can play defense to their heart's content, this thing is over for them.