Putin plays football with Infantino 100 days before World Cup

FIFA discharges unique video, set to Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee, highlighting legends of the diversion juggling and doing traps. 

President Vladimir Putin played football with FIFA supervisor Gianni Infantino in the Kremlin on Tuesday as a merry Russia stamped 100 days before the beginning of the World Cup. 

The recording from Putin's gathering office was discharged by football's reality administering body in a tweet highlighting legends of the delightful diversion juggling the ball and doing traps. 

The clasp finished with Putin heading one back to Infantino after an intensely altered kickabout set to Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee. 

"A few people just can hardly wait for the best show on earth," FIFA said in the tweet. 

Others playing around with the authority Telstar 18 World Cup ball included ex-England midfielder Wayne Rooney and Argentina's Diego Maradona. 

Brazil's Ronaldo juggled by the shoreline while Sweden's Thomas Brolin had a ton of fun in the snow. 

Putin is an inside and out games fan who is wanting to utilize the June 14-July 15 rivalry to exhibit Russia and lift its picture during an era of frayed relations with the West. 

The recreations will be played in 11 spruced up have urban areas extending from Russia's western exclave of Kaliningrad close Poland to Yekaterinburg in the Urals. 

"It is essential to demonstrate Russia the way it truly is: open, cordial and current," Sports Minister Pavel Kolobkov said. 

'Open heart' 

Russia's arrangements for the most watched occasion in sports are going to a great extent as indicated by plan yet at the same time being blurred by embarrassment and worldwide question. 

Fan brutality that made Russians scandalous at the Euro 2016 in France returned a month ago amid an Europa League coordinate in Spain between Spartak Moscow and Athletic Bilbao. 

Coordinators trust the February 22 insident in which a modest bunch of Russians were captured and a policeman kicked the bucket of a heart assault does not alarm away outside fans. 

Pressures with the West have been intensified by the ignomy of Russians being compelled to perform under a nonpartisan Olympic banner at the Winter Games in Pyeongchang over doping charges. 

The outrage constrained previous games serve Vitaly Mutko to stop his post as boss World Cup coordinator to center around his allure against a lifetime Olympic boycott. 

Mutko on Tuesday lost his staying World Cup position as government agent to the arranging board. 

"There was no and will be no state (doping) program," Mutko demanded Tuesday. 

Source: AFP