2018 FIFA World Cup Russia

▲ Logo design of the Russian World Cup / Source : Google

 Today, the World Cup is a part of our lives as the world's best sports festival. The World Cup, which has produced many amazing stories and human triumphs, has continued over the last 80 years since 1930.

 Russia is host country of the 2018 FiFA World Cup. So Russia will be the sixth country to have achieved the Grand Slam of hosting the Summer Olympic Games, the Winter Olympic Games, the World Championships in Athletics, and the FIFA World Cup, after Italy, Germany, Japan, France and Korea. The World Cup period will last for about a month from June 14 to July 15.

 Today, the meaning of hosting the World Cup is definitely more than just soccer. As a prime example, Germany, host of the 2006 World Cup, attracted as many as 2 million foreign tourists and earned a total of over $ 400 million in World Cup revenue. But to achieve this glory, the competition must be intense. So how could Russia be chosen as host of the 2018 World Cup?

 The countries that applied for the 2018 World Cup were Russia, England, Belgium-Netherlands and Portugal-Spain. At first, Russia's evaluation was not as good as England. However, Russia had persuaded FIFA executives through the huge funding from a large energy company called Gazprom and the government's wholehearted support of activities, and eventually managed to achieve the goal of hosting the World Cup.

 So, what are the symbols of the 2018 World Cup in Russia? As the mascot of the 2018 World Cup, ‘Zabivaka’ was selected with overwhelming support. Zavibaka is characterized as a gray wolf wearing a white T-shirt written 'RUSSIA 2018' and blue shorts and goggles. FIFA explained, "Zabivaka is always bright, pursues fair play, and making around people always happy. He believes that his goggles bring extraordinary power."

 And the official ball of this World Cup is "Telstar 18". Telstar 18 brings the design of 'Telstar', the official ball of the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, to commemorate 2020, the 50th anniversary of using the ball. It is designed as a basic five-angle black panel and a six-angle white panel in commemoration of the official ball of the 1970 World Cup but introduces a digital pattern to the black panel according to modern trends. In addition, people can measure the speed of balls and track the location of balls through smart phones by the installation of NFC (Near Field Communication) chips. This will allow more accurate and rich data collection for the competitions.