Title:FIFA president thanks Putin for hosting World Cup

MOSCOW, June 13. /TASS/. International Federation of Football Associations (FIFA) President Gianni Infantino at the FIFA Congress in Moscow thanked Russian leader Vladimir Putin for hosting the 2018 FIFA World Cup, a TASS correspondent reported.

据TASS通讯员报道，国际足球协会联合会（国际足联）主席Infontino出席了在莫斯科举行的国际足联大会，感谢俄罗斯领导人弗拉基米尔·普京主办2018年国际足联世界杯赛。

"A big thankyou to you, Mr. Putin for your engagement, for your passion, for making us really feel part of the same team. To your government, to the local organizing committee, to the Russian football union, to all the volunteers in Russia, and to all the 150 or more million Russian people, who are welcoming the world here in the next month," Infantino said.

“非常感谢你，普京先生，感谢你的参与，感谢你的热情，感谢你让我们真正感受到了同一个团队的一部分。Infontino说：“对你们的政府、当地的组织委员会、俄罗斯足球联盟、俄罗斯所有志愿者，以及所有1.50亿或更多的俄罗斯人。”

The FIFA World Cup, the first-ever hosted by Russia, will be held between June 14 and July 15, 2018, in 11 Russian cities - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Saransk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Sochi and Rostov-on-Don.

由俄罗斯主办的第一届国际足联世界杯将于2018年6月14日至7月15日在圣莫斯科的11个俄罗斯城市举行。彼得堡、Kazan、Nizhny Novgorod、Saransk、Kaliningrad、Volograd、Yekaterinburg、Samara、Sochi和Rostov-on-Don。

Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Uruguay will make up Group A, while Group B will include Portugal, Spain, Iran and Morocco. Group C is going to consist of France, Australia, Peru and Denmark, while Group D will be Argentina, Iceland, Croatia and Nigeria. Group E will be composed of Brazil, Switzerland, Costa Rica and Serbia. Group F has Germany, Mexico, Sweden and South Korea, while Group G will encompass Belgium, Panama, Tunisia and England. Finally, Group H has Poland, Colombia, Senegal and Japan.

俄罗斯、沙特阿拉伯、埃及和乌拉圭将组成A组，而B组将包括葡萄牙、西班牙、伊朗和摩洛哥。C组将由法国、澳大利亚、秘鲁和丹麦组成，D组将由阿根廷、冰岛、克罗地亚和尼日利亚组成，E组将由巴西、瑞士、哥斯达黎加和塞尔维亚组成。F组有德国、墨西哥、瑞典和韩国，G组将包括比利时、巴拿马、突尼斯和英国，最后，H组有波兰、哥伦比亚、塞内加尔和日本。