Yekaterinburg stadium goes 'inside out' for World Cup

FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Russian Football Championship - Ural vs Spartak Moscow - Ekaterinburg Arena, Yekaterinburg, Russia - April 15, 2018 Street performers pose in front of the stadium before the match. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Twelve thousand Egypt and Uruguay fans will find themselves perched under open skies at either end of the Yekaterinburg Arena when Russia's easternmost World Cup venue hosts its first match on Friday.

To raise the capacity to 35,000, organisers have added in steep banks of temporary seating at either end, outside the covered portion of the stadium.