Mutko: need partners who will close the budget deficit for 2018 – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, December 16 – R-Sport, Nikolai Ryazantsev. The organizing committee of the World Cup 2018 Russia hopes that will be found partners to help close the budget deficit, said the head of the Russian Football Union (RFU) and the sports minister Vitaly Mutko.

On Wednesday in Moscow the closed meeting of the Governing Council of the organizing committee of the World Cup, after which Mutko said that the budget of the organizing committee in 2016 will amount to 4 billion rubles, half of which is money – FIFA, the rest will be sent to the Russian government and business partners. Earlier it was reported that the total budget for the organization of the World Cup 2018 is 631.5 billion rubles.

“VEB is already a partner of the organizing committee. I hope at the deficit, which we are looking for partners,” – said Mutko journalists .

The closest year for the organizing committee of the “Russia 2018″ will focus on preparations for the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017, which matches will be played from June 17 to July 2, four of the 12 arenas 2018.

The first-ever FIFA World Cup in Russia will be held from June 14 to July 15, 2018. Matches of the tournament will be played in Moscow, Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saransk, Rostov-on-Don, Sochi and Yekaterinburg.

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