Worldcup soccer 2018 in Russia news

The 2018 world football cup in Russia will ensure a drastic increase in the number of tourist arrivals to this country from all over the world. The number of foreign tourists may grow by 10% as against this year as early as in 2012.

Russia’s win of the 2018 FIFA World Cup bid will understandably generate interest in this country’s culture, nature etc. It is always preferable to see things for oneself than to look at photos in the Internet. Russia should therefore get ready for a drastic increase in the inflow of foreign tourists and should get down to developing its entire tourist infrastructure energetically without delay, says the vice-president of the Russian Union of Tourist Industry Yuri Barzykin, and elaborates.

Germany will share its experience in arranging the FIFA World Cup event with Russia, the country’s Ambassador to Russia Ulrich Brandenburg stated on Saturday.

The diplomat said Berlin was happy to see Russia as the World Cup 2018 host as the country has well-established football traditions and will accomplish the mission with flying colors.

Brandenburg also said that German companies are ready to invest into the sports facilities for the World Cup and some of them are engaged in the preparation for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.

In a dramatic decision, football’s premier governing body FIFA voted to award the 2018 World Cup to Russia. This was a huge victory for Russia which till the polling started was ranked behind England’s bid – the bookies’ favourite and a football powerhouse. Russia also overcame stiff challenges from the combined bids of Portugal-Spain on the one hand and Belgium and Netherlands on the other. The victory is remarkable for the fact that it will be the first time that the World Cup will be held in the eastern part of Europe.

Russia’s economy will rebound to its pre-crisis level by the middle of 2012 and receive a “powerful” boost from hosting the 2018 soccer World Cup, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on a live TV call-in show today.

Putin, who flew to Zurich on Dec. 3 to claim victory in the World Cup bidding, said the event would help upgrade roads, airports and railway stations in Russia’s European economic heartland.

“It’ll be an entirely positive influence on the future of the country,” Putin, 58, said during the program, which received more than 2 million questions in the first 150 minutes, with social issues, housing and labor receiving the most attention. Half a million inquiries were sent in before the call-in, broadcast live on state television, radio and the Internet.

Putin, who has maintained his annual tradition of the hours-long nationwide broadcasts since handing over the presidency in 2008 to his protege, Dmitry Medvedev, continues to occupy much of the limelight as the 2012 elections approach.

The premier, who backed Medvedev as his successor because of a constitutional ban on three consecutive presidential terms, hasn’t ruled out returning to the presidency.

‘Very Satisfactory’

Russia’s recovery from last year’s 7.9 percent contraction was hindered by a record heat wave and wildfires, which killed more than 50 people, devastated agricultural output, forced some manufacturers to halt production and hurt consumer demand. Gross domestic product may grow 3.8 percent this year, compared with an average growth rate of almost seven percent from 1999-2008, Putin said.

ZURICH (AP) — Sepp Blatter insists FIFA is not corrupt, saying world soccer’s governing body just needs to improve its image following World Cup hosting votes tainted by allegations of corruption.
FIFA’s president fiercely defended his organization in a Swiss magazine interview, and denounced England for reacting like an arrogant bad loser after Russia and Qatar were chosen to stage the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.
“I’ll say it clearly: there is no systematic corruption at FIFA. That’s nonsense,” Blatter told the Weltwoche weekly. “We are financially clean and transparent.”

December 11 – Sergei Fursenko, the President of the Russian Football Union (RFU), has claimed that nationalist organisations were behind violent clashes involving Spartak Moscow fans that today claimed the life of one fan and left another 29 injured.

The big guns were out in force last week, with Prince William, David Cameron and David Beckham all in Zurich to help give England’s 2018 bid one final push, with the bookmakers making them strong favourites to claim enough FIFA votes to host the World Cup for a second time.
As it turned out, England weren’t remotely close to winning the bid and finished last behind Russia, Spain / Portugal and Holland / Belgium, something which caused outrage among the British media, which incidentally had been blamed as the reason why the bid was lost in the first place.

Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, has taken revenge on FIFA. England struggles with the choice to organize the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Citizen Father of the British capital has already taken revenge on FIFA president Sepp Blatter and co.

The 2012 Olympics will be held in London. Johnson initially invited delegates from FIFA to stay in the expensive hotel The Dorchester. The FIFA, however, showed the organization of the 2018 World Cup to Russia, and Johnson withdrew his invitation. Blatter and his men will now have to find another place during the week they stay in Britain.

Johnson invited Blatter and co to a charm offensive to get the World Cup. The rooms at The Dorchester Hotel were one thousand pounds (12,000 euros) per night special available for FIFA members. The 2018 World Cup, however, went to Russia, and Johnson retract this offer.

The result of the ballot for the allocation of World Cup 2018 was known a day in advance by the Russian delegation, claims The Sun. The British tabloid reports that the Russian ambassador Alexey Sorokin knew the outcome of the World Cup on Wednesday.

The Sun UK cites a source who had spoken to Sorokin Wednesday, “Sorokin, knew that Russia clearly had enough votes to win. He told the England team that he knew the outcome of the vote. The 2018 World Cup came to Russia .

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was not present at the Russian presentation, according to Sorokin, because he already knew the outcome with confidence and he could return home.

FIFA in Zurich announced that Russia is organizing the 2018 World Cup. The holland belgium-bid and favourite bid England fell off.

The choice of Russia was only established after two rounds of voting.

England was in the first ballot only two votes (compared to four for the Netherlands / Belgium, seven in Spain / Portugal and Russia for nine), resulting in the final round three candidates remained.

The two joint candidates laid it therein against Russia, with thirteen votes had an absolute majority. Netherlands / Belgium was – remarkably enough – dropped to two votes, while Spain / Portugal once again kept seven votes.

Scoop
It is the first time that the World Cup held in Russia. Spain organized the tournament once in 1982, England in 1966. Netherlands and Belgium have never organized the tournament.

Vladimir Putin was a notable absentee during the announcement in Zurich, but the prime minister of Russia Thursday after the Swiss still travel to the city to thank FIFA for the assignment of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

“I want the members of the Executive Committee of FIFA for their
trust, “Putin said.” And I want to assure the leadership of FIFA that we will do everything to ensure that the Cup will be the level it deserves. ”

World Cup 2022 at Qatar
The organization of the 2022 World Cup has gone to Qatar. The other candidates were the United States, Australia, South Korea and Japan.