World Cup 2018 will take place in Russia! URA COMRADES! HOORAY!

On Thursday, December 2 in Zurich presentations of the four bids to host the 2018 World Cup. Applications were presented in England, Russia and joint bids from Belgium, the Netherlands and Spain and Portugal.

After the presentations, 22 members of the FIFA Executive Committee held a secret ballot, in which the chosen country, which will be held the 2018 World Cup. Russia winning bid.

Counting of votes was carried out under the supervision of a representative of the auditing company KPMG.

For the World Cup Russia to build and reconstruct about ten new stadiums:








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The Russian delegation, headed by First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Igor Shuvalov, presented in Zurich the bid to host the FIFA World Cup 2018.

"We had two options to present our bid to host the FIFA World Cup in 2018 - tell all in heavy boring facts and figures or try to show you what is in our hearts, our sincere wish. We decided to go the second way, "- began his speech Shuvalov.

During the presentation, members of the Russian delegation showed the FIFA Executive Committee a few videos. The first of them was dedicated to the history of that means the right to host the European football championship for the little Russian boy. Foreign journalists have noted that the video came out very touching.

"A brilliant idea - to show the boy who plays for his country, scoring a goal in the final championship match against Italy, and then wakes up," - said the correspondent of the BBC.

The second video was devoted to the story of the current and future Russian stadiums, transport infrastructure and other necessary components for the championship.

Before speaking to members of the executive committee of the Russian International Football Federation (FIFA), their applications presented by representatives of the Netherlands and Belgium, Spain and Portugal, England. As you know, to hold the 2018 World Cup
claimed four applications.