germany about how different this team is for of course the champs team twenty fourteen is that fair criticism or are they being really harsh on them i think it's fair criticism to say i mean this team crashed out in the group phase already some of it is the mentality for sure i think they were hungrier to win the title in two thousand and fourteen now they came into this tournament looking a little bit complacent actually they didn't feel like they wanted it as much as they did in two thousand and fourteen and there were some structural problems that you were human moved didn't address properly because like i said already earlier he had criticised throughout the tournament already that there weren't enough people backing him up in defense that there wasn't enough unity in the team and he was criticising that and we were waiting for the wakeup call we thought ok maybe the game against mexico was a wake up call maybe the game against sweden was a wake up call but it never ended up happening so let's have a look at their journey. i the champions have failed to defend their title german

well, it is about this tunisia team? well, it is a team that lacks any real stars.ut he is injured so they are without him. and they liken that to argentina being without messi or portugal being without ronaldo. so for them, this is a team which is made up of players who get on very well, a good team spirit we are being told, they are balanced and organised and crucially they are confident. basically they are a team who have drawn with portugal recently. they were very narrowly beaten in the 85th minute by spain. soi beaten in the 85th minute by spain. so i don't think we're going to be a pushover. they didn't lose in their qualifying campaign. —— they're going to be a pushover. show it could be one of those games u nfortu nately for could be one of those games unfortunately for england. gareth southgate has been talking about the fa ct southgate has been talking about the fact that this team needs to keep its shape. when the going gets tough and it might still be tough in the last minute, they still have to keep their shape and do what they have been working on in

to go players in the team. so i think probably the group phase one of the best matches that we can hope we can show and is going to say because portugal have run out. here but spain are so much. and i think. one thing is ronaldo in real madrid another thing is wrong although in the portuguese national team there are two different it was me with a real madrid is a better team we don't have regional depth on the cross we don't have. a muscle on carlisle two to attack and to produce as much as we do we don't have. a nine or a fake nine like him. i want to play together with with christiane so i see. you because it is a different one what about all this this trouble that we call a power play i think it is a little bit of a play for the president. how is that going to affect the players do you think i think it would speak to me tomorrow. you'll see everything at the feet tomorrow. every single yes speaking about it can create a difficult situation for them but the group phase i think doesn't matter the result tomorr

would you bet it on in this world cup one team pick one team too bad two words to win yes. i would put russia seriously we are home they are. also want to talk to you about how much success of a teen at this point pretty determined by a good manager and a coach is that enough or do you need to have a squad of stars in it or just one or two stars or anything and. the manager is the key of the success also when he drives his team to one goal and they need to respect that of course you need also to work and you can see that in the squad they were performing together. for. something better still these one collective game and this is very good all right is it for instance one like the one huge star takes on a mission of a coach for instance like in ronaldo. or now the arm wrestle like everything sort of like hands on the right thing no i think they they respect also the teammate their respect also the coaching theory course in the end. one star pull for the indian the spy of the nutrients by. the other so they need to make so much and by. scoring many goals he inspired them so h

first coached team advantage that you travel. it's a huge was always very disciplined and eager to learn the speed at seventeen it is obviously going to be a few emotional ups and now this is well that's just part of the process of the young plus it's another ongoing connection heights first step then as agent and friends the two time world cup finalists skippered stuttgart to the league title in one nine hundred eighty four a world class defender in his day with a potentially world class forwards now in his charge then his agent was part of his uphill climb to food and i think he did his own extra training as a youngster things like running up and down the steps seems to have worked with. them has played his way into germany starting line up and he still. twenty two how does that compare with champion. twenty two jerome was still a long way from being a regular start of a germany team as they are already but he needs to occasionally be a bit more composed in front of goal then he'll score even more. i like his sense which got a

it's i'm in terms of bundesliga appearances and playing for the national team it's incredible what team has achieved already for resigned age likely have a phase where everything isn't going so well for him but i think he's a young guy with a really good character that he deserves mine i think think think think i'm going to think he's now set for his first world cup. teams gathering from all over the world all there with one aim just the same as us and i've got my own part to play with the need to get a few tips especially from the license. i'm told the captains of munich serial going to speak at champions six titles on the trot and i'm president. if meant. then not so much off the phone with the exception of the nine hundred fifty four world cup success for the national teams usually gone hand in hand with having a lot of outline of plans on board little that's a long long time there's definitely a connection between a strong buying team in germany winning titles and most of it was a core contingent from the national teams really quite successful at a bunch of tied him up like up. with

russian team had. last week we expected something close to the strongest eleven the russian mayfield but chess of continued to experiment the line up was told it different to that three at the back as well so tonight is a big mystery of course i would say that it's a one hundred percent certainty that the likes of feel the smell of alexandre. and probably even if will start in the first line up the biggest mystery is the defense of course whether that would be a spot that moscow screwed up of whether that would be further could show off or the veteran shavit who came back out of retirement of international football to play for russia during the world cup that is of course yet to be determined i would say probably reasonable to play the brazilian model fernandez who actually got brazilian passed but you ought to play for the russian national team and got a russian citizenship he was one of the strongest last season of the season before that where the church asked if we trust him enough to put him in the

my friend we want to be world champions you can't be afraid of this team all that team for stuff is that means getting through the group stages well as possible to cope with the risk in the french cohort of high achievers players like t.-mo vanna aiming for the summit. starts the target or to win the title again. as i'd rather teams will have a similar size for sure but we qualified impressively and did well at the confederations cup. with a strong squad points and we're heading into the tournament as a consequence of you know with the new things up some distance to. trains to win right from the off. a flying visit from christian and other diehards now the former prospects of the stars. i've made my hobby my profession realise the dream and now the national team in my first world cup it was the stuff of fantasy but now it looks like becoming reality for furniture into a world cup dream come true it's also a happy prospect for national team general manager or the vet be a hall of the young guns a good to go. make way for the next generation down and yahshua commish already firm favorites

he said the goal is a physical body strong team one of the hardest teams to play against because they played very very hard to clean good in the us physically strong but for me not to seem to just believe in the work. you have to musea which i also don't think is a team which can make it all the way to have a really difficult group. didn't sort of thing for i know who stuck. up. for me nigeria very dangerous. to give a yacht off the shores i met with after this is wrapping up with these in the week these youths were most in that you were ships of the minute serious with the advice stopped. the leak out political what does it mean the heart the bloody it's a freedom don't come out of the group it's not because we're hard rugby that is because the other teams are but that. makes sense let's quickly head to morocco. local i think is for me of brilliance in this a great coach a very good team is a french coach everyone off new have one of the best the needs in africa who took the f.a. cup of nations with salvia for the rest every coast he can squeeze an extra ten percent out of every play

in broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team international i'm sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. it has been an opening day to remember for russia at the two thousand eight hundred four world cup in the host nation trounced saudi arabia five nil at moscow's luzhniki stadium to get the tournaments underway and the scenes across the russian capital and beyond have been exuberant. these 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 the secretary general antonio gutierrez taking the role of referee the ambassadors who were there to watch the opening ceremony and the game between russia and saudi arabia. our special studio on top of the four seasons hotel was overlooking the celebrations in moscow here is our team with today's highlights. u.s. . yes hello

team at the confederations cup and took bets wouldn't. you know that is part of the reason why today is such a tragedy what people are kind of cross being around for explanations and among them the federal chancellor angela merkel from whom i believe we can hear she summed up the national mood today by the way i hope you're not too down hearted about tonight soccer's alt after all germany is one of the most successful national teams in international competitions having won a total of four world cups three european championships and one confederations cup so really it is still one of the best teams in the world yes if you yes sophia that's correct if you take a very long view but to be honest tonight we are all very sad. all right so a very disappointed chance so we know she's a big fan of the germany team as well john coming back to you know because you've been following this german world cup campaign all the way in russia was there any indication that things could go this wrong. or certainly even before russia the way that germany played

players in the team. so i think probably the group phase one of the best matches that we can become sure and it's going to say of course portugal have run out. here but spain are so much. and are seeing. one singles ronaldo in real madrid another thing is wrong although in the portuguese national team there are two different teams present me with sets real madrid is a better team we don't have more regional test on the cross we don't have. a muscle and kind of help to to attack and to produce as much as they do we don't have. a nine or a fake nine like been so much to play together with swede cristiana so i think. that avatar is because it is a different one but he is the leader of the national team as i was saying. our team is quiets quite solid quite comfortable players with a good personality players. we would self-esteem not afraid to play against anyone so i think portugal can can do good so they are also players when those how you win the tournament. and they are finding european champions have that

team back. so will we be seeing a repeat of those scenes right here this summer as well. retaining the world cup is so tough and so rare i don't think germany can do it but if you think i'm wrong tell me why. if you enjoy this video please like subscribe and join me next time to break down. so we wait till next week to find. eight groups. where. we've waited for years but now it's finally here. it's finally a world cup time again. all you really wanted to know about russia twenty eight c. drive here i'm told we don't. into the details so who are the biggest players what are the biggest stories not just from the office we've traveled across the world to want to see your questions in missy during this time. is colombia prepared. what do you think as i said going to work at some fly around the world and land in russia to track germany's golden boys with kick goals. and you keeping a special high on team germany a k a shot that. let's get the cup again. gets to the first luncheon mopar shiny place e

ten european teams, five latin american teams, and one asian team.ut of course teams are now gearing up for the knockout stages. two big games to mention that we are looking ahead to mention that we are looking ahead to on saturday, that is france playing argentina, that will be a big match to watch, and also uruguay playing portugal. thank you very much indeed. we are all a bit jittery about a rest day. i am not sure how we will cope with the day without football. 16 teams are through to the knockout stages. but how do you manage the expectations of successes and failures at such a prestigious event? annamarie phelps is vice—chair of the british olympic association, and is with me now. good to see you. let's start with that. england have lost 1—0, for example, put out a second 11. does it matter? what are the expectations within the squad for a result like that? is it good? ithink it is within the squad for a result like that? is it good? i think it is very good, actually. they won't have gone out trying to lose, i am of that. they will have had gar

so we can talk about that's a superman torturous team put to the spanish team you're a huge fan boy spank you i understand you know it's only on the players and i mean they deliver like that people people have opinions about the masses and and there are no those of the this world who suppress truth and they get criticized for fish from for not joy the same with tiger woods for instance you get criticized for not joining in with people and not you but people don't have any idea what it's like to be these guys every. one wants and everyone wants a piece of them everyone wants some of that time and every time they go on the page they are being looked at with a microscope so for someone like ronaldo who claims and rightly so that he is the best player in the world he just goes out there every time and he shows it and i said before it took him four minutes today to score an unbelievable header when you look at it and i've looked over a few times you know he's got no right to get that ball but he wants to get to that goal and that's kind of what one of the sort of elements with right now that i

more talented with the probably the best the best teams in you know the best teams in south america and then becomes a huge a huge challenge but i would say that russia has has enough has enough to get. i would say probably the five points that you need to qualify. ok service doesn't mean you're talking at me. earlier this afternoon before this massive match russia against saudi arabia he also mentioned the importance of being mentally strong an awful lot of pressure is on the russian team and i've read what he says like i'm supposed and it's strange why that can affect cheating counting as a lot of pressure on russia as a nation you know everybody will be looking at russia today so i think every russian person will feel that kind of pressure you know we want to show our country from the side we want to show that we we can produce this credible tournament so everybody who comes here will have a great time and everybody that's watching will watch great football and of course that that that will affect the players in some way because they are the eleven place a place today are the one

are starting to figure germany out or have figured germany out and have your healer and the team just couldn't do anything against it even the south korea coach he was like you know we studied a few of the games and i told my team well they have a paternity. squad against it as he said being a world champion is a burden a mental burden and though the players were mentally blocked and then they had this campaign the s.s. number that the rest. was a compare. and the d. of p. and then put another pressure on them and of course they rested i didn't see the hunger i mean he was ok he was very good but. he was first thing on the pitch you can see that everybody's given a sleeping oath you know that it's not just those whose fault they were flat from the top to the bottom every sub they made no. you made a difference then and then you swish i have yes i did you know there is not one players fall if i didn't have that. that self confidence as a as a world cup winner. give me one player where you would say that right down the kick off i was like i was like watching my my kids come oh what's go

he was sad striker for the colombian national team. his goals earned him the nickname little day bomber today he's a football expert with fathers again. yes. this is hitting it king of. the moment to my locations and mr olympia finished fourth in qualifying behind brett seal why i'm measuring tina good for a direct hit to russia hopes are high. let's make sure that if you go back because if you don't go to these videos. she's everybody's as you pointed out is that the number three they're not going to. be more. there when you're in the public radio. comedy are they going to be. are you. going to destroy. our teammates superstar all called on him colombians expect to start new russia just like the star who came before him. there were in ninety ninety day colombians first world cup in twenty eight years leading up to the last sixty and they call him feeling the boy. on his teammates became national i don't know what he she speaks colombia lisa. remember when he got on it when i was in some of the reasonable level. going on with the i tho

team.e last 2a hours or so, a video of some england players with james corden. this has been a very relaxed camp. we have talked a lot about that. let's look at the video of what they got up to with the television presenter. what do you want us to do? i've got an idea. bibilov america, this is the england football team. —— people of america. was that your american accent? we need a new idea. raise your hand in the air. i'm not doing that. put it in the air. i don't wa nt that. put it in the air. i don't want to. i feel stupid. you are putting the liberty and lady liberty. move your hand in the air. i'm not doing this. dele your third favourite british harry. we are forgetting harry potter. is he real? either way, more popular than you. you are number four. standing in front of the country, asking it to root for england. wow! i got goose bumps. actual chills. that's it. let it out. all right. hey. wait, what was that? guys! guys? two more training sessions for england before they fly for tha

the team out here in moscow. who did! one. the team out here in moscow. who did i get?d? england. was that a waste of a pound ? we will wait england. was that a waste of a pound? we will wait and see. a few other people may feel pounds where waste. but it lightens up. whether pounds a waste after all? patrick gea rey pounds a waste after all? patrick gearey has been looking at the teams you pulled out that you might not have wa nted you pulled out that you might not have wanted and you might feel to cash in that pound in for a half weeks' time. lovely silky turn and now he has made a chance! the world cup is predictably unpredictable. part of its story are the unlikely heroes, those who smashed expectations. so, where to look for dark horses? what about deepest, darkest peru? we have not seen the matter world cup since 1982 and the retro— chic of those shirts. the new outfit look, though don't sound good. they are unbeaten run. the world cup frenzy is causing fights over football stickers back in lima and leading them out will be the captain paolo guerrero back after ba

team that needs the love need to feel the love from from the crowd. like it happened in that game that we saw yesterday that then started to started and stopped stop to play really friends weren't interested at all but then mick stopped all of a sudden because they knew that they were going through with with the status quo the draw was enough for them and then then the crowd started to get on their backs and i think if that happens to the russian team they would be they were having trouble dealing with that so you know both ways that yeah but i think you know i think it's going to be it's one of those games i really am looking forward to it's going to be a cracking game and what we didn't see in that set. half of the draw was. in the game just below that with denmark playing career asia and word denmark and russia to win then we have a game between then modern russia in sunny such that. there would be some some some i think and that's one that you've definitely got to be covering it doesn't get much better than that i don't think covering you know cov

and by the end of today fall more teams would have qualified another four teams would be on their way back home for the day it all begins in group f. and that's where mexico they play sweden and germany they're up against south korea and both games think so. at the same time five pm moscow time so who will go through here well the short answer is that everybody can mexico who have won the first two games can still end up going home after today and south korea has lost both of their two games they could still be in the tournament if they beat germany with more than three goals and sweden at the same time they loose is to make soko it can get very complicated if germany and sweden win their games one nil that would leave mexico germany and sweden and six points each all having scored three goals and conceded two and in this case the rules are not that clear i've checked this with fifa germany and sweden they will go through and mexico will be out and that would be very very harsh since they were literally in the next round until twenty cause the german superstar scored in the ninety six

another painful summer then fans watching their team get beaten by a team that was made in england. in any case the real question for belgium is can this golden generation finally shake off near achieve it. i'm going to say no. talent i don't see this belgium team beating the likes of france or brazil like with england another some of the frustration is in store. at least england of what it wants so. the good news for belgium is that whatever happens in the match between them they shouldn't have too much trouble the other side's in group g. two countries who have never made it past the group stage at a world cup in fact i never even qualify for a world cup of. gold from roman torres against costa rica in the final qualifier secured panama's place at their maiden world. it was a huge moment for the nation finally qualifying for the world cup the eleventh attempt that puts england's woes into perspective but since then their preparations have been going well. recently friendlies against denmark in switzerland conceding seven and scoring. anything can happen in football but panama winn

she's part of a 20—strong team.irds of the driver line—up is made up of wounded or injured ex—servicemen, using motorsport to aid their rehabilitation. the season reached its halfway point this weekend and before the racing got underway, ben croucher went to silverstone to see the effect its having teamwork, logistics, battling fierce opposition, it could describe any battalion in the world but this is invictus games racing, one of the most different teams in the championship. they are made up of one professional driver and one amateur, of former military servicemen whose identity and in some cases body has been torn apart by war. i was in the royal marines for16 by war. i was in the royal marines for 16 years and unfortunately i had an ied go off on me. that cut my military career short. i have always been a motorsport fan but never thought i would be in a race car. that race car is the first jaguar car to come from the factory in 50 yea rs. car to come from the factory in 50 years. custom—built, just like the tea

just better more quality other good team the greatest of all time well. still you still great but argentina does not deserve it no but i don't like france so i want i want to argentina also because i really wonder if he will make it until. and wow he could be ok he can't go on like that you can a missing what is right his him how many home any substance abuse what is he going to drink the next time what white wine or white wine mixed with cocaine no question you know what you can complain because germany needs exactly offend like that what . have you seen him we have. oh yeah he has problems at the moment well anyways i would say thank you very much for watching and stay teal nd by. football is a simple game football is a simple game twenty two man she's a ball for ninety minutes and at the end the germans always win brawl brawl brawl. thank god. the. stars deliver rosy performances. comics so pop goes for instance. by british singer norah. infused. d w. w. b i find his want to start families to become farmers or engineers every one of . the learning is j

me just like the real theology team's latest edition to make up as we go. look. at. the iranian ayatollahs have become much more aggressive after the nuclear deal twenty fifteen the only way. is with russia and the united states work together what i think share in common is much more than what separates us and i believe that the united states has realized that russia has legitimate interests in the middle east and before you know during the cold war and even after the cold war it was like a game. welcome back back to the world now way she way from the audience and festivities the scene a few dark moments british police have opened an investigation into a group of england fans who were allegedly seen giving nazi salutes in one of the host cities and says it reports from london but an unfortunate incident seems to have unraveled in one of the host cities of the world cup in volgograd where english fans were captured giving nazi salutes singing hitler songs as well as shouting nazi slogans and this is now being looked into now it's understood that this unraveled followi

young players in the team. so i think probably at the group phase one of the best matches that we can look i'm sure and it's going to say of course portugal have run out. here but when there's so much. and i think. one seeing is we're not in real madrid are not a single one although in the portuguese national team there are two different people with me. sets real madrid is a better team we don't have more regional test on the cross we don't have. much so on quite a while to to attack and to produce as much as they do we don't have. a nine or a fake nine like when some are to play together with swede cristiana so i think. i'd be tough is because it is a different one what about all this this trouble that we call a power play or fic it is a little bit of paul play for the president to be honest how is out going to affect the players do you think i think it would speak to me to morrow. you'll see everything at the feet to morrow. everything we are speaking about him can create a difficult situation. so that part o

maybe after five years in national teams. decades of faltering steps russia is finally getting to watch its own star performers on football's biggest stage and the richardson al-jazeera. for argentinians football is a national passion all eyes have been on the men's team at the world cup as they struggled to make out of their group but at the reports from players in the women's team caught up in a battle of their own one of equality. it's training time for the women's football team twice a week they travel to. ground on the outskirts of when a site is nine of them by members of argentina's national squad. including the ten florins one so will know she accepts that the men's team is extremely important for argentina but says that women should not be forgotten that. we are fighting for change in women's football and the clubs in the national team i wish we could get to see that happen so now everyone is focused on the men's team but we would like a quality because we are treated differently to have a woman coach that will be a

thankful you certainly need a strong team focused and a strong team off the pitch as well. everyone really has to stand shoulder to shoulder those are so difficult to defend a world cup talk a lot when it twice at all but i didn't like another silence of. the squad in russia they saw my posts an enviable strength in depth rarely has gemini or the bundesliga had so much standout talented its disposal. the pieces by ok now a well established stomping ground for the stones of tomorrow union plant was one of them before making the transition to be. a star of today. i think. when you grow up with football and it's such a huge part of your life obviously you hope to play at the world cup somewhere along the lines of it was a shock to live. in the attacking midfield department particularly spoilt for choice well cup winners and they should. didn't even make the cup this time the twenty two year old hugely important to. complain a few different positions i think that's one of the things in my favor otherwise i'm used to playing high tempo football i'd say that basically is a matter

it's a very mediocre average team but. well look germany has been playing well but i think what people need to understand is that i spent time in korea and they're very proud people so whenever there's pride on the line and i think for korea they really played for they pride it was almost like saving face i'm going back home to south korea at least need a consolation win a consolation point and it was funny because my good friend south korean in canada she messaged me right after and she was like yeah that's how koreans are basically if there's pride on the line we get the results yeah. i actually wonder do we have any reactions from the german team is there any twitter nor would anything that's they. not not really actually the they were bombing us on twitter on instagram every day day and now in the silence totally silence i mean it's healthy it's nice but there's just like a sort of a sorry small sorry that's ok but no pictures anymore but what about gary. ok ok we have you know more gary gary says now football is a sim

because they were playing with teams let's wait till the first coffee in these you see some teams which were performing badly during the. show and of the different absolutely level of football because it's different you know you have to be prepared and so all these days nine or six days which separated the last the friendly match with the first major official you know this is when they did an enormous job to be prepared so we're not surprised i'm surprised with the quality of performance if we can say that saudi arabia and. you're one of the richest with all respects one of the richest teams but they still qualify because everybody makes that which of course for that matter is you know through a process of live so it's not fair i would say it's not fair to say of the energy that always seems of the world cup because they all qualify and additional qualifying round is rather you know instant stuff and right so it's not a question of week or not week is the question of being prepared so the exact day in two to exact hour and the level of performance so fresh and it was a surprise i mean a

there are ten teams and each team has two drivers.e cars have the same chassis and battery but other parts of the car can be changed by the team's engineers. laps remaining... as you're driving, you're focusing on the road. can you still take in the data at the same time? you have to. otherwise we will not win the race. as a team, we feel we are coming together to the first test, and after that it will be the first race, and where it all counts now. the talking stops and it's about business. as reality sets in we head to valencia for pre—season testing. it's a last chance for teams to size people up for the season. while electric cars might not be as loud as formula 1 cars, they are still pretty fast. the top speed of around 140 miles an hour. the car is pretty traditional in the sense that it is a single seater race car, so the architecture is pretty standard. the big difference, these cars run purely on electricity. no fuel tank, no nothing. behind the driver, before when you would have the fuel tank, we have a large battery and an

teams we did a quick google. think it was super slow. if i'm right you all have to buy me a beer and you will. according to super still do this because players to get into a combined great british team that's not the case even if it is true the real reason great britain has for several football teams is all to do with timing football as we know it was invented in england in the mid nineteenth century with the first international match being played in eight hundred seventy two england against scotland in glasgow and. how exciting. but it's one thing if it came along in ninety nine for england scotland ireland and wales only been playing each other in tournament for twenty years they were deemed too well established to combine over the next one hundred and fourteen years before proud footballing nations won one world cup between them is not very good but there have been times that great britain has played together one hundred forty seven's match of the century for example a british eleven featuring stanley matthews

team but i think you got. him up against a little bit when you get off your chair or get it done now so the best which are coming is that i just said it would look nice for the building to live here before this whole article here was going to come by the shield the bank of us your card with the senate your. horse you must be restarting the career very young was his first note of mild work at the end of three of. that if he were called for on. the for then this of course i know what i will personally have been in so i don't know what i guess i'm going to have seen go by users must when he says that look. he's colombia's footballing cappie tell looks like d's there's no question we colombians don't take things too seriously got it. i've seen an awful college colombian up to me but i believe we really can dance to the title in russia that's my prediction soon colombiana. i'm back in germany after travelling along with the locals well what they say colombians are happy because belief life to the fullest but the mo

so why are people saying that most ella is threatening to quit the national team what happened there's been a lot of controversy going on about the team camp which is in grozny the chechen republic of russia in russia and it's very far for egypt to travel from grozny to most of their team games so it's a bit weird why they chose a place and actually what people are saying is that they chose a place because they're following an invitation from the chechen leader ramadan could year olds and now they held a banquet and the team had to go there and at this banquet mohamed salah was given the honorary citizenship of the chechen republic and this is something that moments i was not comfortable with at all if we see the pictures from him at the banquet he looks you know he's kind of just suffering through his position right to the leader he really does look like he's having fun and he doesn't like to be instrumental ised for politics quite frankly so he apparently quick to threaten to quit the national team and there were some reports before their game today that he was not in the starting li

the team has yet to score a point.he way we wanted to, but you know, we have never been last, yes we haven't podiumed but that would have been a tall order, i feel as though i have progressed and so feel as though i have progressed and so has the team, so it is on ward and upwards. on wards to the most famous racing mecca before the season famous racing mecca before the season finishes in september. the project itself has another two years left, for that racing team whose identity isn't defined by racing. you may remember paul the octopus, who correctly predicted all of germany's results at the world cup in 2010 and picked the winner? or nelly the elephant, whose credentials are slightly less impressive, but who nevertheless made a few correct predictions during the 2014 world cup? well, they were unofficial psychic animals — russia has an official psychic. and he comes in the form of achillies — a white cat who lives in a museum in st petersburg. he's deaf — which some say means he relies on his intuition, and is immu

fans of the defending champions how can suffering the blues since their team's opening box last coach and players insist they will be balanced against sweeping a deal or enjoy a match. and a look back at switzerland granted shock is the main strike that beats therapy out we'll bring you the best of five is not just. for man. i'm out of town and thanks for joining us well turkey had to the polls on sunday with the future of the country's pleasurable system a stake if president ratchet when's he's promised to deliver sweeping constitutional changes to further strengthen the president. the future. president dredge of tide has been steering the cool so turkish politics. for more than fifteen years. to get he has a good shot of reelection which would allow him to further tighten his grip on power. after this presidential election the most controversial constitutional changes in a generation will come into force if they were only narrowly backed by the turkish people in last year's referendum without on wins the necessary majority he will be an almost all powerful president but he is not th

in one single team. but of course there is an awful lot of pressure on this russian side in the first world cup much is always one of the most watched too is saudi arabia and russia battle like we cannot cross live to you cause you down at the stones and one of the fans owns in central mosque. sky what's the atmosphere like there at the moment eagle. won the first game of the basically folk world cup this just kicked off and we were just outside the stadium where they were and this game is taking place but trust me the atmosphere is very much like you and the stadium itself there are thousands of football fans who have come here to watch the first game and one of the big screen on the big plasma screen behind me and i mean your fans from all over the world is watching from your russian in saudi arabian pounds while biting their nails right now as we speak who we might be called from argentina from brazil from germany from here from the cross the well as i said one of them have come here to enjoy the game

the best team. against a good team. needs that. i will for them. there is the ruins of my hands it's not bad for me that man plays a role in the whole evening. and it's germany. and germany is just still. one more sort of final for germany while. look at this two south americans the big rivals brazil in the. they would be a real big germany. that's by this family already training with the assessor the person. is getting really this is a little unusual. magicks budgies features i believe you don't miss it. for more on the match to united manager's predictions check out r.t. dot com also if you think you know better you can challenge him head to facebook or twitter and use the hash tag match the radio so just a day before the fifa world cup opening ceremony football's governing body is busy today they're going to be deciding who's going to host the twenty twenty six tournament a lot of planning of that they've got to look ahead a long way they'll meet in less than an hour in fact here in moscow to choose between morocco and a joint bid by the u.s. ca

to be keeping a special high on team germany a. let's do it let's get the cup again. it's in the slums of mumbai shiny place nice for my b.f. awful good to make go to school for a break during the world cup so to get to subscribe to pick up you keep all of our . nations will take part in the world cup so why doesn't england play as part of a unified scene great britain let's ask our experts mccambridge. imagine an international football team with a front line of gareth battle current time and will create i'm not doing that well great thing are things i don't i don't want to do it you know humiliate me and a lot of a lot of people respect me. great example. britain has a policy when it comes to sports it has a combined the combined rugby team even combined. so have you ever wondered why england scotland northern ireland and wales have separate football teams we did a quick google. think it was super sleuth dude if i'm right you all have to buy me a beer and you will. dive me. according to super still do this because players are too shy to get into a combined great brit

that you have to be a real team to become a great you know at a tournament winning. yes and no depends on your individual players how good they are with so four years ago the show argentina go all the way to the final in my opinion because they had you know messi. in take messi. out of that sea he probably wouldn't run so far so in many ways you can get a long way by not having seen but if you are. one of the so-called smaller countries in the footballing world like iran i'll take denmark and so this is well . we have been to many championship european championships and road cups and the only way that we can produce good results is if we stay together this team as a team but we have in the past we've had had individuals like brian loud the play of milk at last and michael out there who didn't carry the team we didn't carry them but they were just the spice the x. the thing that we could throw into the game and made us even better i don't think that iran's got many sort of superstar us night set aside moon who i had great expectations for. because it does sound i mean

could imagine for a national team when the tsunami i'm sure for. the world title and amazing coaching record look became a marketing star in his own right he seems have everything going his way maybe he felt that he had nothing left to prove in any case there is little sign since then of the star of innovative techniques that led to the twenty fourteen success. despite a young germany scored storming. success of the twenty seven team concept comes love still for the old guard for the campaign this summer yet having many world cup but trends in the school it does not help the patterns of leadership. you can lose contracts with the german f.a. runs until twenty twenty two it would be no surprise if you didn't stay the distance. germany sadly are out that is now a fact the world cup does continue and emily i want to look forward to what is happening next which teams are slugging it out well there are some games later group slug as you say switzerland takes on costa rica and serbia takes on brazil and things are still quite open in the group at the mom