FIFA World Cup Original Trophy seen by over 220,000 Russians

• First theatre of FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour by Coca-Cola resolved yesterday
• 16 Russian cities visited over a past 78 days 
• International leg kicks off in London on 22 January

As a 32 inhabitant teams energetically wait a outcome of a Final Draw of a 2018 FIFA World Cup Russiaâ„¢ on 1 December, a esteem they are all competing for subsequent summer has finished a initial theatre of a debate around a Host Country.

Over a past 78 days, a FIFA World Cup Original Trophy has visited 16 cities in Russia, including 4 Host Cities of a tournament. During a tour, that finished on 26 November, fans were offering a ambience of a arriving festival of football and came as tighten as we can be to a esteem each actor is forgetful of lifting.

“The initial theatre of a FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour by Coca-Cola came to a tighten in Sochi yesterday after a good debate around a Host Nation, Russia,” pronounced FIFA’s Chief Commercial Officer Philippe Le Floc’h. “Together with a partner Coca-Cola, we have visited 16 cities in Russia, travelling some-more than 16,000 kilometres and flitting by 6 time zones. Over 220,000 people had a singular event to see a FIFA World Cup Trophy with their possess eyes. FIFA World Cup Ambassadors, internal celebrities and thousands of ardent Russian football fans were there to acquire a esteem during each stop. We are looking brazen to a rest of a tour, during that a esteem will revisit 51 countries around a universe before returning to Russia subsequent May shortly before a start of a 2018 FIFA World Cup.” 

Government officials and celebrities supposing useful support in organising a FIFA World Cupâ„¢ Trophy Tour by Coca-Cola. As partial of a events around a tour, countless Host City Ambassadors were involved, including Dmitri Bulykin, Yelena Isinbayeva, Natalia Ishchenko, Evgeni Lovchev, Viktoria Lopyreva, Sergei Metreveli, Anastasia Myskina, Alexei Nemov and Sergei Semak.

“As organisers of a 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, a Trophy Tour is as critical and essential a partial of a preparations as any other operation,” pronounced Alexey Sorokin, CEO of a Russia 2018 Local Organising Committee. “This debate builds adult a atmosphere of a festival of football and gives fans all over a nation a singular event to come within touching stretch of a sport’s biggest prize, that a captain of a newly crowned universe champions will lift above his conduct subsequent July!”

“We are unapproachable that a FIFA World Cup Trophy Tour by Coca-Cola has given a singular possibility to people via Russia to see this mythological esteem in football adult close,” commented Michael Vinet, General Manager of a 2018 FIFA World Cup™ Project, Coca-Cola Russia, “but for us as a disdainful debate organisers, a amicable goal is even some-more important. Together with FIFA and a 2018 Local Organising Committee, we are sketch courtesy to a significance of building girl football in Russia and ancillary inclusivity in competition interjection to a tour. This is precisely because we have visited sports school, children’s homes and orphanages, schools for infirm children, universities and girl football tournaments. We put on 4 Unified Games featuring 3,000 players and fans. we wish saying a FIFA World Cup Trophy in chairman will enthuse them to destiny achievements in competition and life.”

On 22 January, a general leg of a FIFA World Cup Trophy Tourâ„¢ by Coca-Cola kicks off in London, United Kingdom before visiting 51 countries on all 6 continents. The FIFA World Cup Trophy will lapse to Russia in May 2018, when it will revisit 9 some-more cities: Vladivostok, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Samara, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Saint Petersburg and Moscow.

You can follow a a FIFA World Cupâ„¢ Trophy Tour by Coca-Cola on fifa.com/trophytour and amicable media platforms Facebook and Instagram.

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