stadium's. all eyes are on the pitch and the play is from across the country on the planet and our special studios from the face c.t.'s a warm welcome to all of you for free for world cup twenty eight c. in russia. one of the most successful managers in the game just gives us his take on the upcoming showdown between spain and portugal. and broadcast my direct course through the last of these is our international thomas certainly glad to have you with us now it has been an opening day to remember for russia at the two thousand and eighteen world cup the host nation trounced saudi arabia five to zero at moscow's luzhniki stadium and to get the tournament underway and the scenes across the russian capital and beyond have been

exuberant. are pictures from the very heart of moscow right next to the kremlin and as you can see the partying went on late into the evening and the world cup spirit even reached the u.n. security council diplomats showed up at the headquarters in new york wearing their national team kits they posed for photos and even played an improvised match with secretary general antonio gates here is taking the role of referee embassadors were there to watch the opening ceremony and the game between russia and saudi arabia. and dubai is getting into the world cup spirit as well here you can see the bridge skyscraper the world's tallest building lined up with the russian flag and also the five zero scoreline from the opening game. well here in moscow our special studio

on top of the four seasons hotel was overlooking the celebrations here is our team with the day's headlines. i am . yes hello again and why russia had a magical stop here more than a little way the saudis believe me came with a knife to talk about it he said peter schmeichel for mine you know i could kill people and oversight and money and i could manage it yeah it's a very you know i think if i decide to be first they will want me to shred or i like i will get on to that in many of these fans definitely plays with what i see. the be.

good. good. good ok so those fans obviously happy as they go flee when today if i can tell you same pace here and i think we can go through the night so you with your help the first as we know was scored early on wasn't between by u.t. kosinski. for so good for civilizing the boy is something of happiness because he's in these three days in the city of the world cups these these three of. the russian will come to us because of the sixty four and forty just for the first school beautiful cross and the must have a second goal that chance and that is then this comes from the bench and the immediate the compass the correction and and the great shots and what can we say about a coming from the bench. relation with the man there's a he comes from the bench studs ridge had

a dominant in the box against. you and the group i think this is this is a player. vij i mean he's he's come off the bench the you know he's all the way throughout the game trying to prove a point to the manager that he was opposed at the starting line up and i think he will be the next game and then both of these goals here right right at the end of the game i mean it's the train 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 fight that 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 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 they went out there today and they did the job

they had 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 chose a new set of it so it was a good performance fans should be optimistic but not see what. and i hope the russians are looks like a portuguese because for us the distance between super optimistic and see me speak is very short and i think that they didn't have reasons for be so pessimistic but now i'm a bit like people seize the ship because of course it's a great result of course maybe one wall becomes crucial one knows for egypt and russia to finish with four points which is very possible to happen so everything was good snow now you have a lot of the only negative point is dangerous where everything went well but in

reality so there is not a good team like because i believed. they're going to. they're going to have a point. of good performance today saying from the russian manager. he made a lot of good calls and substitute pressure. i've never i've never been there but i can imagine that to manage your own country in the world. is a huge weight in in your back and i think he had a big decisions to make he makes. it choose the team to play the players he made the right changes the changes were perfectly for him so i think he leaves the stadium taller than he is. fast and 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. enjoy the moment relax and feel that you have happiness and that right there definitely challenges him and. i was not convinced at all by the way that russia was defending. team like saudi arabia should have zero chances against it and there was one big chance and then for sure the chance to divide it up in the pool and i think that's something that he really needs to work on in the days that aren't there for the next thing i could have a pension if positive say one of them carries a machete shift in his chair cherish it i understand that you spot it is talent didn't you when you were real madrid as a manager you can just tell us about oh i just thought this is first match in real madrid was not spotted myself it was in the in what we call the custody of the second real madrid team and didn't. in so much have brought into the first team i gave him his is that which was it was a good t.v.

was it was fast was often becomes like it was seeing. for. promise you there was a football player as soft as that fire as like he's why he has like my boy has like been always quite genetic the question he was very careful to play for real i give him is there ever been he went on and on longer and he come back and he played a couple of years and wanted 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 in manchester we'd stop the bombing and forget what people say let your heart choose you cannot play for a country where you don't think connected by your heart from the united she made the decision and obviously he's there must be the happiest man. in the meantime as

he would guess it is a busy time for sports reporters around the world so here's a quick glimpse of what life is like behind the scenes in the media center by the luzhniki with alexy our chefs have managed to speak to two of the goal scorers i've managed to speak to who actually if you think about it scored the quickest goal from a substitute in sixteen yes this. still after and since children to school in the world cup and at home in our country in such an atmosphere it's through childhood dream my whole life flashed before my eyes but i also managed to speak to the man who's 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 put up now we have to get ready for the next game to be really important much easier as we have to forget this 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 allan's ago it was walking away to make zone seemingly in a lot of pain and it seems like a hamstring injury but generally ending is 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 but of course the world cup wouldn't be complete without a beautiful life and ceremony we had one say robbie williams performed a string of face including let me entertain you and then brazil legend renowned i was also having a child take me pick and pass the ball to the world cup mascot you know if you don't know down to the fans i didn't see the need to get high hey this time he found thousands of people have children this old man in the old winning the world cup like. anybody to. me it's. the ones

that really. feel. it but it was. a. very hard. look. many of you think. there's a bush and a pretty good. possible that when they hear the song frankly people look at the our heart and they think oh wow i think. it's just so friendly and welcoming and i mean it's as good as we were hoping to have you been hacked have russian hackers hatch you yet not yet but you're expecting it will . have will have been there like the last may not do anything like that. with a lot of us but

a lot of good luck with the law you can mess with messing up with thank you. everybody story is different some are saying that they're just being able to see what is the thing they're lining the russians but whatever the reason people are coming one thing. kill them and. bring a lot. into the. i would be a mob boss nation and sports pundit on former goalkeeper first tried to tell us how he sees 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 they had scored that goal they would have went through then we played on their wrist and beat them quite convincingly then the manager resigned and called us all to leave before he resigned just out of the blue so. we had the team maybe for three months in total he said ok but i mean turkey is going to be very very difficult i think it's france that we saw in two thousand and six the same but the last sixteen australia's best

record in two thousand and ten they got knocked out of the first round but they had the same points as two thousand and six only difference being the 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 four nil so this game against products is going to be absolutely everything for us is what we keep saying you know you've got three games you've got them in turn the. 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 supply a seat but most certainly also how the manager wants to do it to to put your pick a team out tactically 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 i really do not know what kind of a routine same job and it can be a nasty nasty shock if you're not prepared for four eleven and they say he's one hundred percent right itself a lot of fun same support they have on here talking on the bench as well all down at the not to see how it is before we come up here we'll talk i was trying to have slight way to prove it as we're just going in a mental i actually spots or so 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 was what they're aiming for every game against denmark against france and then as a striker they want to make it like a toss the first world cup in thirty six years before you get people to talk about to start this new strategy and think yes nineteen years old and iranian refugee correct daniel. i mean what a story absolutely amazing story i mean we do the local football and obviously we did a pretty laid back in australia but when these type of things come up it doesn't matter where it is what around the world they're just an amazing story so from january we

had heard of him this kid didn't go through any of those traditional paf ways only don't want to play straight football and we picked him up as soon as we saw him that we sort of thought you know what he's a player that australia has not thought you know he's a player that could be maybe one day touch wood like a christian eriksen always going to have to leave it there thank you very much and i thank you and despite maybe somebody else but it just to give you an. i have picked these guys i thought i was on a box with will and. go. for the tournament second match is a heavyweight clash between spain and portugal that's taking place in sochi on friday ok prachi reports now from the black sea so what a cracking start it was very russia for the world cup for the first world cup in eastern europe and particularly for the host nation what a boost 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 you.