Football World Cup in Russia – but where is Putin? – Sports News

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Moscow (dpa) – In the quarter-finals of the World Cup against Croatia, Russia must probably recover without the support of its supreme fans. President Vladimir Putin will probably not travel to Sochi for the match, said the Kremlin

Unfortunately, the match does not fit his schedule, but Putin will encourage the Sbornaja of Moscow

Putin is not In the stadium. Rarity at this World Cup, for which the head of state had so hard tried. Only in the furious 5: 0-Auftakterfolg the Sbornaja against Saudi Arabia, the 65-year-old was sitting on the VIP stand. His gestures towards the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman became an internet service

Since then, however, the Kremlin leader has shone by his absence, leaving room for others. Although Putin congratulated national coach Stanislaw Chertschessow by phone after the victorious turn of the last sixteen years against Spain. However, only the head of government Dmitry Medvedev and the former head of the football badociation Witali Mutko were in the booth to shake hands.

Many observers were waiting for Putin to miss the dazzling football scene. The best World Cup in history should be, he gave as a solution. The world should get to know Russia as a hospitable, happy and kind country. The sporty judoka and the Poutine ice hockey fan, who are so focused on the productions, could be in the spotlight. Far from it

And yet, many consider it to be a kind of performance that the Kremlin operates. While the Russians are celebrating a giant party of several weeks with thousands of foreign fans, the "galley slave" Putin works for the country.

He meets foreign guests like US Councilor John Bolton to discuss the US summit. President Donald Trump prepares on July 16, the day after the final. He is advising South Korean President Moon Jae In to discuss the situation on the Korean peninsula. In the second group match of the Sbornaja against Egypt, Putin remained in Minsk with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko. And in domestic politics, he must do and receive among the other governors.

Internet commentators believe that Putin left the sixteen rounds against Spain because no one had expected a Russian victory. That's why he sent Medvedev, writes the blogger with the SerpomPo user name on the site of the government's critical radio station Echo Moskwy. "Putin should believe in his team, always and not to hide," he wrote.

Andrei Kolesnikov, Moscow's political expert, believes that Putin does not want to badume any political responsibility for a possible sports failure of Russia. "But he could come to the finals to host this cosmopolitan event."