Posted on 06/02/2018 1:15:59 PM PDT by goldstategop
The Russia World Cup 2018 is now under two weeks away - with the excitement building, you can start planning your summer months of football viewing.
Last December's draw put England in Group G with Belgium, Tunisia and Panama and all three of the games have been scheduled at times which will please office workers country-wide.
The full World Cup fixture schedule is below, with timings, venues and TV channels included. All times BST. Local times are BST +2 apart from games played in Kaliningrad (+1), Samara (+3) and Ekaterinburg (+4).
Final Sunday 15 July Moscow (Luzhniki), 4pm
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Will Germany hold the champion trophy or it will be another country to win it? The world will find out on July 15 in Moscow.
48 teams will be competing to get to the final watched by billions of people around the world.
The "beautiful game" is the sports event of the year.
Hope the stadiums built by North Korean slaves are spiffy and hold up well.
Qatar’s new stadiums have been built by slave labor.
So its a common problem.
I have nothing against people enjoying sports, or Russian cities trying to raise their profile — but the governing bodies of international sports orgs like IOC (Olympics) and FIFA (World Cup) are so disturbingly corrupt and mafia-like so as to distract from the actual events.
And will Putin pull another Crimea just like he did following Sochi? He seems to time some of his biggest antics around large sporting spectacles.
Yup.
Pro sports have fallen on hard times. Look at the low ratings for the NFL.
I doubt it - for one thing Russia is hard hit already by sannctions and I don’t think it has the room to pull off another surprise.
I've visited the UAE,specifically Dubai,several times in the last few years.Everywhere you look there are major construction projects and the workers always seem to me to have very dark skin...but they're clearly not Africans.
That says to me that they're Pakistanis,Indians and Bangladeshies (if that's an actual word).
I looked it up...it’s “Bangladeshis”
Just in time for legal betting in Delaware. I wonder if the Delaware sports book will take World Cup bets?
If so I may take Russia to annoy my liberal friends...
All I want to know is when does the US play?
2022, if they qualify
U.S. has a strong women’s soccer team, but not men’s.
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