Two 139-foot-tall temporary stands were constructed at the Tsentralnyi Stadium in Yekaterinburg, Russia, to expand seating 35,000.- AFP
YEKATERINBURG, Russia — Droplets of rain gathered on the dark blue suit jacket of Leonid Rapoport, the sports minister of the Sverdlovsk region, as he stood in the auxiliary seating stands at Tsentralnyi Stadium amid a light drizzle Wednesday afternoon.
“Fans do not care if there is a roof or not,” he said in Russian, and smiled.
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