Tuesday, March 15, 2016

FIFA with a political blunder to Russia

International Football Federation (FIFA) removed from sale on its online store T-shirts dedicated to the World Cup in Russia
in 2018.

These shirts was depicted the map of Russia, but without the Crimea.
Once deputies from the Duma, however, noticed this fact immediately reported to the government and asks for suspension of the sale of these shirts.
"These football shirts have fallen on sale on the official online store inadvertently," explained the press service of FIFA.
World Cup in 2018 in Russia will be held from June 14 to July 15, 12 stadiums in 11 cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Sochi, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Kaliningrad, Yekaterinburg, Saransk, Volgograd and Rostov -the-Don.

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