[(Title)] Icelandic national football team thanks Russia for ‘warm welcome’ at FIFA World Cup

MOSCOW, June 27. /TASS/. The Icelandic national football team expressed its gratitude to Russia for a warm welcome accorded at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Iceland's squad said on its Twitter account on Wednesday.

冰岛国家足球队在周三的Twitter账户上说，冰岛国家足球队感谢俄罗斯在2018年国际足联世界杯上给予的热情欢迎。

Team Iceland lost to Croatia 1-2 in the World Cup third group stage match on Tuesday. The Icelandic national football team took the last place in Group D with just one point and finished its debut performance at the FIFA World Cup.

冰岛队在周二世界杯第三场比赛中1-2输给了克罗地亚，冰岛国家足球队在D组队中位居最后一位，只得一分，完成了在国际足联世界杯上的首场演出。

In their first match at the FIFA World Cup at the Spartak stadium in Moscow on June 16, the Icelanders secured a 1-1 draw with Argentina. They suffered a 0-2 defeat from Nigeria (June 22) in the second game.

6月16日在莫斯科斯巴达克体育场举行的国际足联世界杯赛上，冰岛队第一次与阿根廷打1-1平局，在第二场比赛中0-2被尼日利亚击败。

Russia is holding its first time ever edition of the FIFA World Cup, which kicked off in Moscow with a spectacular opening show at the Luzhniki Stadium on the night of June 14.

俄罗斯正首次举办国际足联世界杯赛，该杯于6月14日晚在卢日尼基体育场举行壮观的开幕式。

Russia selected 11 host cities to be the venues for the matches of the 2018 World Cup and they are Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan, Saransk, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Nizhny Novgorod, Yekaterinburg and Samara.

俄罗斯选定11个主办城市为2018年世界杯足球赛，它们是莫斯科、圣彼得堡、索契、卡赞、萨兰斯克、加里宁格勒、伏尔加格勒、罗斯托夫-顿、尼日尼·诺夫哥罗德、叶卡捷琳堡和萨马拉。

The matches of the 2018 World Cup will be held between June 14 and July 15 at 12 stadiums located in the 11 mentioned above cities across Russia. Two of the stadiums are located in the Russian capital.

2018年世界杯足球赛将于6月14日至7月15日在俄罗斯上述11个城市的12个体育场馆举行，其中两个体育场馆位于俄罗斯首都。