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President Putin officially opens tournament at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium

[PHOTO: COURTESY]

The World Cup kicked off in Russia yesterday as the host nation took on Saudi Arabia in front of 80,000 people in Moscow after President Vladimir Putin officially declared the tournament open.

Russia is spending more than $13 billion on hosting football’s showpiece, the most important event in the country since the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics.

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