2018-06-15 Fri

Football is the most favourite game in India. After cricket off course! With the IPL over, Indians were eagerly waiting for the new excitement. Well, the wait is over!

FIFA World Cup has already begun. Hosted by Russia the World Cup began yesterday on 14th June. Being the 21st FIFA World Cup, this quadrennial international football tournament will conclude on 15th of July. This is the first World Cup held in Europe since the 2006 tournament in Germany and the first ever to be held in Eastern Europe.

It is expected to be the most expensive football championship in history, budgeted at 11.8-14 billion US dollars, surpassing the cost of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil! The competitions will take place in 11 towns across Russia for which 12 stadiums are kept fully ready.

As if the World Cup itself was not a reason enough to celebrate, Russia has roped in the numismatists, philatelists and notaphilists fans too! Russia Russia recently issued a commemorative Football World Cup coin and it has released a banknote too! Philatelists are in for a real treat. Russia Post has come up with a set of 8 stamps for the occasion. The stamps are issued with two different denominations of 21 rubles and 21.50 rubles and they feature mind-blowing photographs of the stamps. The first battle was fought between Russia and Saudi Arabia and our hosts won the combat. Image Curtsey: http://stamp.ninja