Russia has spent the past seven years fretting over every detail of the world’s most popular sporting event amid security fears, tense foreign affairs, and the sudden realization that its soccer team might not be very good. Somewhere along the line, the main concern had become avoiding embarrassment at its own World Cup.⠀ ⠀ A million things could yet go wrong, but Russia will always have its opening-day party to look back on, a 5-0 dismantling of Saudi Arabia.⠀ ⠀ Surprising as it was, Russia's rout on the field was perhaps the least incongruous sight of a bizarre evening in Moscow. With the eyes of the world on the Luzhniki Stadium, the largest nation on Earth kicked off the tournament with a faded British pop star giving way to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who plans to use the World Cup as a month-long pulpit to address outsiders’ perception of Russia.⠀ ⠀ "Our opponents really didn’t have to make a huge effort to win by a landslide," Saudi Arabia’s Argentine manager Juan Antonio Pizzi said after the game.⠀ ⠀ "He probably overlooked how disciplined we played, how compact we were," Russia manager Stanislav Cherchesov replied. "But I think I understand what he is saying."⠀ ⠀ Read more at the link in our bio. ⠀ ⠀ Reporting: @joshrobinson23⠀ ⠀ ?: ⠀ 1) Matthias Schrader/AP Photo, ⠀ 2) Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images, ⠀ 3) Alexey Druzhinin/AFP/Sputnik/Getty Images, ⠀ 4) Sergei Bobylev/TASS via ZUMA Press, ⠀ 5) Mike Kireev/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press ⠀ ⠀ #worldcup #worldcup2018 ⠀ ⠀

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Russia has spent the past seven years fretting over every detail of the world’s most popular sporting event amid security fears, tense foreign affairs, and the sudden realization that its soccer team might not be very good. Somewhere along the line, the main concern had become avoiding embarrassment at its own World Cup.⠀

A million things could yet go wrong, but Russia will always have its opening-day party to look back on, a 5-0 dismantling of Saudi Arabia.⠀

Surprising as it was, Russia's rout on the field was perhaps the least incongruous sight of a bizarre evening in Moscow. With the eyes of the world on the Luzhniki Stadium, the largest nation on Earth kicked off the tournament with a faded British pop star giving way to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who plans to use the World Cup as a month-long pulpit to address outsiders’ perception of Russia.⠀

"Our opponents really didn’t have to make a huge effort to win by a landslide," Saudi Arabia’s Argentine manager Juan Antonio Pizzi said after the game.⠀

"He probably overlooked how disciplined we played, how compact we were," Russia manager Stanislav Cherchesov replied. "But I think I understand what he is saying."⠀

Read more at the link in our bio. ⠀

Reporting: @joshrobinson23

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1) Matthias Schrader/AP Photo, ⠀
2) Ozan Kose/AFP/Getty Images, ⠀
3) Alexey Druzhinin/AFP/Sputnik/Getty Images, ⠀
4) Sergei Bobylev/TASS via ZUMA Press, ⠀
5) Mike Kireev/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press ⠀

#worldcup #worldcup2018


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