one nation under a World Cup

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They chanted it inside the St Petersburg Stadium on Tuesday night. They chanted it in Moscow, above ground in the fan zone and below, Stan Musial Youth jersey in the metro. They chanted it in the restaurants and bars, and later, inebriated, they chanted it in the fountains. The main chant of this World Cup is not complicated. It’s the name of the host country, drawn out over three long syllables, and repeated ad infinitum: “Ros! Si! Ya!”
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It was Uruguay’s win against Saudi Arabia on Wednesday afternoon that confirmed Russia’s advance to the next stage, but with two wins and a goal difference of +7, Russia’s progression was all but wrapped up at the end of the Egypt game the evening before.
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If the proficiency of Russia’s 5-0 victory over Saudi Arabia in the opening game had caused the country’s collective jaw to drop in admiration and http://www.officialseahawksfootball.com/YOUTH+PATRICK+KERNEY+JERSEY amazement, the emphatic follow-up against Egypt found the disbelief transitioning to joy and naked patriotism.

It is not just the team’s performance that is making this such a fun World Cup to experience on the streets of Moscow and other cities. The arrival of hundreds of thousands of fans from across the world, turning the centre of http://www.officialarizonacoyotes.com/Adidas-Brendan-Perlini-Jersey the capital into a never-ending carnival of smiles and dancing, has a lot to do with Garett Bolles Youth jersey that. But the sheen would have been taken off the celebration had the home team played as disastrously as predicted.

The attitude towards the national team had been summed up by a popular meme doing the rounds on social media in the days before kick-off. A sign in a pub showed different footballers using the toilet: Cristiano Ronaldo curling it in from a distance, Zlatan Ibrahimovic urinating backwards overhead-kick style. The graphic for the Russia team was simple: a man standing in a puddle of his own piss.

The grim pessimism of Russian supporters was hardly surprising. This, after all, was a team who had not won in seven matches and looked sluggish and uninspiring in the warmup matches. Just before the tournament, the veteran defender Sergei Ignashevich, who turns 39 in July and looked dangerously slow even at the Euros two years Scott Darling Youth jersey ago, was recalled to the squad and put in the starting lineup.

Despite all the ominous portents, the action on the pitch has been a revelation, with two wins that have exceeded the expectations of even the most patriotic optimists. True, Russia’s opponents so far have been a woefully inept Saudi side and Egypt with a half-fit Mo Salah, but Russia could only play the opponents put in front of them, and it is worth remembering that according to Fifa rankings, Russia were a worse side than Saudi Arabia.

Russia have never qualified for the knockout stage of the World Cup – the last time it happened was in 1986 when the country was still the Soviet Union. The last time a Russian or Soviet side won their two opening games at the tournament was 1966, an indication of just what a start the hosts have managed this time.

Football is not a national obsession in Russia, with most people only taking notice during rare successes such as the run to the semi-finals of Euro 2008. “I think half the country will find out that we have a World Cup when the whistle blows,” the coach, Stanislav Cherchesov, said before the tournament. “It takes a long time for us to start driving but I think when we press the foot on the pedal, http://www.buffalosabresofficialonline.com/Adidas-Ryan-Oreilly-Jersey we go all the way.”

That is now starting to happen, as those who were previously disdainful of the national side or apathetic begin to rally around the flag. At the Luzhniki on Wednesday afternoon, as a capacity crowd watched Portugal beat Morocco, there were loud cheers for Ronaldo’s goal from one end but the loudest roar of all was a few minutes into the second half, when the inevitable chant of “Ros! Si! Ya!” went up from the locals sitting in all four sides of the stadium. wholesale nfl jerseys wholesale jerseys from china cheap jerseys from china wholesale nfl jerseys from china cheap jerseys china wholesale jerseys

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