world cup twenty eight. demolition job on saudi arabia. from across the globe on locals alike. from across the biggest country on the planet special studios from the face. of you before world cup twenty eight in russia. of course. he gives us his take on.

between spain. just a few moments into a new day here in moscow friday june the fifteenth my names you know me a list is r t international it's been an opening day to remember the twenty eighteen feet world cup the hosts so the arabia. luzhniki stadium to get the tournament on their way on the scenes or cross the russian capital. being suitably exuberant.

well these are pictures from the heart of moscow right next to the kremlin that's a few hours earlier let's bring you up to date because this is what's happening right nod just to the side of red square you might be familiar with a lot of fans coming i played for remember this is after midnight here in moscow and you can even hear a few allies there counted last time i heard those south africa lofts all of funds from across the world meeting locals and other fans making friends for life of course a lot of russian fans there what the sense was at the beginning when the first goal went in i was watching it relief and then exuberant after that well our special a studio on top of the four seasons hotel was overlooking the with celebrations here share a team from there with a day's highlight. yes

hello again and why three different russians had a magical stop here they gave away the saudis obsoletion it came with natural combat if they said peter schmeichel for one minute i could kill people and also money and i could manage it yes a very i think if i decide to be where they form an. issue like i will get on so that many of these fans definitely plays with what i see. be. ok so those fans obviously happy as the gold flea win today if i can tell you will pace

here and i think we can go through the night saying with your help the first as we know we scored early on wasn't between kosinski. for some group for solacing the boy is jumping in happiness because he's in d.c. he's in the city of the world cups these days three of. the russia will come to us because of the sixty four and for him to score the first school beautiful cross and the last have about the second goal that chance and ben ben is then this comes from the bench and to me that the something the connection and and the ritual and what can we say about. coming from the bench not the best relation with the man there's a he comes from the bench studs rates had a dominant in the box against a full team and the grid well i think this is this is a thing of the bunch i mean he's come off the bat and he you know he has all the way throughout the game trying to prove a point to the manager that he was supposed to put the side line up and i think he

will be the next game and then both of these goals here. right at the end of the game a minute between them in the ninety's minutes oh and that made it five nil and when i say is sure you know what was wrong with that fine it was from no that's nothing wrong with that this is exactly what russia needed and it's going to do so much good for for the holiday and it's for the atmosphere on the russian team i mean i've been traveling around russian off six months and it's very little positive i've heard about the team they they have now won five of those they've convinced people that they can actually play football and compete at this level they haven't played a competitive game for two years and they went out there today and they did the job they have to do it was a case when i say it's because saudi arabia was not a great team and is not a great team and i would be surprised if egypt and europe i don't win at the same score so that's that's why it was so important today that russia did win by five

goals sure jay say you said earlier that it was a good performance fans should be optimistic but not see what. and i hope the russians are not like a portuguese because for us the distance between super optimistic and pessimistic is very short and i think that they didn't had reasons for be so pessimistic but now i'm a bit like like me to seize the show because of course is a great result of course maybe one goal becomes crucial one knows for egypt and russia to finish with four points which is very possible to happen so everything was good snow no yellow cards the only negative point is danger zone where there is thing went well but in reality so there is not a good team like because i don't believe they're going to. they're going to have a point. of good performance to date saying from the russian manager. he made

a lot of good calls and substantial pressure. and never. i have never been there but i can imagine that to manage your own country in the world. is a huge waiting in in your back and i think he had big decisions to make you made some he choose the team to play trees the players he made the right changes the changes work perfectly for him so i think he leaves the stadium taller than ease but i think he has enough experience to to come down and like you to say is. saudi arabia saudi arabia egypt is better than saudi and you know why is better than egypt so calm enjoy the moment relax and feel that that happiness and that right there definitely challenges him and. i was not convinced at all by the way that russia was defending. a team like saudi arabia should have zero chances

against it and there was one big chance and then for sort of changes that could have ended up in the goal and i think that's something that he really needs to work on in the days that aren't before the next game i could have a pension of positive stay one of the injuries they cherish if dentist you cherish if understand that you spot it is talent didn't you when you were at real madrid as a manager you can just tell us about how i just play in this is first match in real madrid was not what about myself it was in the in what we call the custody of the second real madrid team and in some in some cup match i brought into the first team i gave him his is that which was he was a good kid he was he was fast he was confident he comes like peter was saying from a football player background this is that was a football player so it has that the virus like is why he has like my boy has like

in all the squads genetic the love the passion he was very careful to play for real . i defy me as there have been he went on long and we come back then we played a couple of years then you want to feel real and i was i was leaving with the moment that he's the season to play for russia or not to play for russia was in that period that he had to make that decision and i always talk to my players i do the same now we know chess would stop the funding and get more people say let's show her the truth you cannot play for a country where you don't think connected by your heart from the united states made the decision and obviously is that must be the happiest man today you know in the meantime as he would guess it is a busy time for sports reporters around the world to his quick glimpse of what life is like behind the scenes in the media center illusion he came with alexy hour shift i have managed to speak to two of the goal scorers i managed to speak to who actually if you think about it scored the quickest goal from

a substitute in sixteen yes it's just i'm still i've grown since childhood to school in the wood cope and at home in our country in such an atmosphere it's through childhood dream my whole life flashed before my eyes but also managed to speak to the man who spoke who scored the first goal and if i think from now on we should call him gaza because that's what twitter has been calling him all the english twitter is not calling him gaza so you guys in ski from se cross that i just want to start out now we have to get ready for the next game to be really important much easier ahead we have to forget as much as quickly as possible of course it's a big win but it's not the end of the tournament but there's also a pinch of salt. one of the players i think you did really good in the first half before his injury allen's ago it was walking away to make zone seemingly in a lot of pain and it seems like a hamstring injury but sensually ending his world cup but again the medical staff of the russian national team will tell us in the coming hours whether that injury

would be very serious but other than that they seemed really happy and everyone was very very cheerful. of course the world cup wouldn't be complete without id to feel like ceremony we had one to robbie williams perform destroying your face including let me entertain you and then brazil legend renowned i was also getting a child to take me pick possible to the world cup mascot because you don't offer was down to the fans and today to believe he could get his time he found thousands of people have chosen this old. old winning the world cup like a. boy hardly anybody does it. feel to. be one of the ones that really see. the blue. but.

there's a question pretty good to be so. old so many people i mean everybody stories some are saying they're just you watching the game to watch the game on the team just want to see the saying they're planning to explore russia travel around the cities hosting twenty feet and see nothing but whatever whatever reason we. want. to look. at both nations sports pundit. first tried to tell us how he saves his team's chances for the tony we had a difficult qualifying campaign we had to go through the playoffs we played syria in a playoff and basically syria hit the post in the last minute if i had scored that

goal i would have went through that we played honduras and beat them quite convincingly then. manager resigned and also called as australian before he resigned just out of the blue a bit of a molecule stepped in he's only had the team maybe for three months in title he said ok but they mean turkey is going to be very very difficult i've been against france that we saw in two thousand and six the same got to last sixteen astri's best record ever in two thousand and ten they got knocked out of the first round but they had the same points as two thousand and six any difference being a goal difference i've been in game two thousand and six we won three one i've been in game two thousand and ten against germany lost for neil so this game against france is going to be absolutely everything for us is what we keep saying you know you got three games you got them in ten things. and the first game is more important than the second and third because it hasn't been played yet but if you set yourself up like you said in two thousand and six you set yourself up with a win in the first game it changes the approach for the second game and it changes how you would supply a seed but most certainly also how the manager wants to do it to to put your.

tactical so the first game is so important you have to and you play france we play peru and the funny thing about this and this is i have to speak to you also about that tomorrow is. who is eleventh in the world and how how is he not looking at them i am i'm seriously more scared of peru than i am of france and i know what france and i know the quote is but if they have what i really do not know what kind of polluting team job and it can be a nasty nasty shock if you're not prepared for the eleven they have you say one hundred percent wrong it is no fault to find same support they have on you talking on the bench well all down to the not to see how it is before we come up here we'll talk i was trying to have such a waste proving fans were just going you know mental i actually spoke so i said this is how many fans have you brought here and he was saying to me fifty five thousand now i don't know if it is fifty five thousand but what he said but what there i mean for every game against denmark against france they get this right i

want to make it like a high and toss a first world cup in thirty six years before you get people to talk about you start letting you stride into. yes nineteen years old and iranian refuge in correct daniel. i mean what a story absolutely amazing story so i mean we do the local football obviously we do the privilege back in australia but when these type of things come up it doesn't matter where it is what are around the world they're just amazing stories so from january we haven't heard of this kid didn't go through any of those traditional pathways all the goal was to play straight for it with pick him up as soon as we saw that we sort of thought you know what he's a player that australia has not got you know he's a player that could be maybe one day touch wood like a christian there is always going to have to leave it there very very much i think you know to somebody else but it just to give you an idea of how big these guys are . i was on a box there will not. be goalkeepers ringside fans for the tournament second matches a heavyweight clash between spain and portugal last taking place in sochi on friday . reports now from the black sea so what

a cracking start it was for russia for the world cup for the first world cup in eastern europe and particularly for the host nation what a beast it's given them i mean even in this into the music in the background you can see by but it's dark that a bit of a party started to take place here in sochi where you get a feel of the russians you can tell by be watching the matches are starting to come out into the olympic plaza hate to celebrate and he says distinctively party festive mood ahead of what will be an incredibly important group the match between portugal spain in the fish stadium behind me that i mean after everything that's been happening would anybody be surprised if it was a draw who knows what the score will be but the fans they'll be here on friday to cheer on both sides of this magnificent arena that was what the host and also the closing ceremony host for the century twenty fourteen winter olympics become a that we people here actually because the celebrating and afterwards if you struggle to the beach will come on the pebbles and then go for a drink and celebrate along there because we are at the black sea resort of sochi

it's been thirty degrees today we're in this most southern point of the eleven host cities we need to georgia. but a big party is just starting i think after that russian victory i think it's about to carry out. i mean i was ahead little are losing over and he made a prediction saying about portugal against spain this is what he said. portugal in spain no fresher at all because they know that both are going to qualify so i can imagine a fantastic match between the dupion champion. i receive say probably the best team at the time. in the mansion are to boss also told just tell you that having christiane are now though doesn't guarantee success for portugal. they are. two very good teams spain probably

a better team than us. more solutions better swards. the postural is quite a solid team i think better than the team that won the world market and to europe is in the team. so i think probably the group free is one of the best matches if we can look i'm sure and i was going to say of course portugal have run out. here but when there's so much. and i think. one thing is ronaldo in real madrid another thing is wrong although we look portuguese national team there are two different things what about all this this trouble that we call a power play i think it is a little bit of all play for the president to be honest i was out can i for the players to take i think it would speak to me to morrow. you'll see everything at the feet to morrow. everything we are speaking about it can create

a difficult situation for them but the group phase i think there's a measure of the result a moral go. to do we. going to have like a couple of weeks to. adjust the situation and to be ready for the call but since we've given all we've looked at it will be always become. ok those predictions there for tomorrow an awful lot going on tomorrow three matches to enjoy but i think we should just enjoy the moment pressure of one five million again for the world cup with the. great stuff for monday and the team earlier well indeed for millions of russians

hosting the world cup is a dream come true but that hasn't always been the case it took great the terminations to get football here in the first place r.t. trace the roots of the game in russia and that leads to scotland and why that's let me explain the. the end of the nineteenth century saw the russian empire his first official football match it was played at the hippodrome in st petersburg in between horseracing the public reaction that it wasn't such a beautiful game. a german sportsman in what our roots were running round in the mud splashing down with force in the dirt and soon turned into chimney sweeps there was a remitting rafter among the pub. over a decade later things began to change football started to gain a foothold in russia but not without some serious help from a russian born scottish merchant and sports enthusiast named arthur macpherson and so in fact the history of russian football can be traced all the way back to

glasgow shipbuilding was booming here back in the day in the mid nineteenth century and it was one of the shipyard owners murdoch fierce and who was recruited by the russians sought to become an engineer with the roll fleet it's his grandson of who is to become the leading light in promoting football in russia and to help be unraveled this story i've managed to find and knowledgeable enthusiasm from the clan macpherson itself sandy let's face it after him self he started up football in russia organized leagues he was chairman of the association for two years we are very proud of him we're very proud to lead is important to the macpherson's and to scotland at large but the scotsman was there to start off russian football how does it make you feel thinking about those links or i think it's very proud i've personally i've never been interested but i would love to go one day and never know when they make

a pilgrimage i think we should be watching the world cup with great interest i think sport is a marvelous uniting influence throughout the world probably the two greatest things in sport are the olympic games and the football world cup they bring nations together the the life. this in and it miserably due to his prominence and position in the russian empire and revolution swept the country and he was imprisoned by the bolsheviks he died of typhoid in jail in one thousand nine hundred it's a known where his body was buried but in the lucy or in smolensk cemetery in st petersburg there's a senator in his honor. we also found the great granddaughter of the macpherson lady betty class who only very recently discovered she was related to the footballing trailblazer it was a great discovery because i know about it but very little about what he did until fairly recently he must have put a lot and. it's good it's good for clint's view because it's

a really rough and such a big country that it's amazing that the influence yeah there are very pleased that there's somebody who did so martin's had his is it is recognized as such a place host to the world cup it might be worth remembering the remarkable story of often macpherson without him the tournament might not be happening here in that era today r.t. . here fascinating stuff from materialis kruk on vo with more world news this hour donald trump said crimea is rightfully part of russia according to online news are to feed the comments reportedly came during last week's g.

seven summit in canada samir account broke down the story first. according to buzz feed trump told leaders at the g. seven summit that crimea is russian because everyone speaks russian there on the second day of the summit truck made a few comments in regards to russia saying it used to be the g. eight before russia was kicked out and he also called for russia to be reinstated saying that they should be at the table so that they can solve the world's problems together naturally some leaders were opposed to this including mccrone and merkel but first some background crimea joined russia after.