MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's World Cup organisers said on Saturday that the tournament had so far been a success and would help to improve the country's image abroad.
With the third-place game and the final remaining, Alexei Sorokin, CEO of the local organising committee, said the country had welcomed more than one million foreign guests during the tournament and that its 12 World Cup stadiums had had a 98-percent occupancy rate.
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