In the qualifying round of the 2018 world Cup Russian national team will play in group H against Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Greece, said the results of the draw, which took place on the first day weekend in the Konstantinovsky Palace in St. Petersburg.
The full Lineup of the group H as follows: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Estonia, Cyprus, RIA " Novosti "." in General, I would say, because it's a good sub for us, a variety of rivals, you have the opportunity to meet with this top team like Belgium, there are more weak opponents, in order to debug from. Good subgroup, which will give the opportunity to quietly and systematically prepare for the world Cup ", ? said the Minister of sport Vitaly Mutko on the draw.
at the same time the General Director of the organizing Committee "Russia-2018" Alexey Sorokin said that the draw for the finals of the FIFA world Cup 2018 in Russia will be held in the Russian capital. Russia as the host nation of the 2018 world Cup received the right to participate in the final stage automatically, but will participate in the qualifying tournament: the results will not be counted, in fact, the team will hold friendly matches in the days of qualifying matches. Citizens of Russia have the opportunity to play two tournament opponents by either one replacing the other Games meetings with other competitors. In the draw for the qualifying match of the European zone was attended by 52 of the national Federation. The only exception was Russia, which team passes the qualification as the hostess of the world Cup. Formed 7 groups of six and two groups of five teams. The games will be held from 4 September 2016 October 10, 2017. The composition of the other groups as follows: group a - Netherlands, France, Sweden, Bulgaria, Belarus, Luxembourg

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