Kremlin: Putin to meet with FIFA World Cup home team ‘as soon as possible’

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MOSCOW, July 9, 2018, (BSS/TASS)- Russian President Vladimir Putin intends
to meet with players from the national football team as soon as possible,
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Monday.

“One way or the other, he (the president) will find time to meet with the
players of the national team as soon as possible,” Peskov said.

The Russian presidential spokesman also said that Putin already invited
Head Coach Stanislav Cherchesov to take part in a session dedicated to the
heritage of the FIFA World Cup in Russia.

“This event is scheduled to be held in the city of Kaliningrad on July 20
and it will be a joint session of the Council on the Development of Physical
Culture and Sport with the Supervisory Board of the Local Organizing
Committee (LOC) Russia-2018,” Peskov added.

During the ongoing 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, the hosting national
football team managed to make it to the quarterfinals stage, where Croatia
edged them out on a penalty shootout to close Saturday’s spectacular match in
Sochi.

Russia is staging its first-ever FIFA World Cup, which kicked off in Moscow
with a remarkable opening show at Luzhniki Stadium on the evening of June 14.

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.