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Turf from Uruguay stadium that hosted 1st World Cup bound for Russia

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Montevideo:  The Uruguayan national football team participating in the 2018 World Cup will take pieces of turf from this capital’s legendary Centenario stadium — which hosted the first World Cup in 1930 — to Russia in June.
“I believe it is very meaningful for it to travel (with us) to Russia,” Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) president Wilmar Valdez said on Tuesday, reports Efe.
The Bering-Bellingshausen Institute for the Americas, a Russian NGO, proposed the idea, which was implemented jointly with the AUF and the relevant authorities in Uruguay.
“The sections of turf from the Centenario (stadium) will be present in all the matches in which Uruguay is set to play in Russia” during this summer’s World Cup tourney, said Valdez.
The goal, according to the organisers, is to “tighten the bonds between Russia and Uruguay,” as a way of contributing to the promotion of the joint bid by Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay to host the 2030 World Cup.
Russia’s ambassador in Uruguay, Nikolay Sofinskiy, told reporters that “the whole world” knows what the Centenario stadium means to world football, adding that taking the turf to Russia is a “very symbolic act” representing the bond between the present and the historic events surrounding the sport.(IANS)

 

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