Новости за 15.06.2018

His numbers are ordinary. His name is not.

MOSCOW (AP) Lionel Messi takes the field for the first time in this year's World Cup on Saturday when Argentina opens group play against Iceland, the smallest nation to ever play in the tournament.

MOSCOW (AP) No one doubts Germany has a wealth of talent at its disposal for the World Cup - so much that Leroy Sane, Premier League young player of the year, didn't even make the squad.

MOSCOW (AP) Iceland is showing the charming, funny, friendly style that has won friends worldwide before the team's World Cup debut against Argentina.

FOX Sports North's Ryan Lund scours cyberspace for the week's top tweets

FOX Sports Wisconsin's Tom Dierberger scours cyberspace for the week's top tweets

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) The second round of the U.S. Open on Friday has begun in much better fashion for Tiger Woods.

KAZAN, Russia (AP) France coach Didier Deschamps has always been clear with his players since taking charge six years ago: there is no ''I'' in team.

SARANSK, Russia (AP) The mere presence of striker Paolo Guerrero on Peru's national team could have been a big distraction.

Joined by Cris Carter and Jenna Wolfe, Nick Wright reveals how a LeBron James - Kyrie Irving reunion would work on the Boston Celtics. Could Kyrie and LeBron coexist on Brad Stevens' squad?

DETROIT (AP) Michigan State University board trustee Brian Mosallam is asking interim school president John Engler to resign immediately.

Minnesota's offense will face two-time Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber in the series opener

SAMARA, Russia (AP) Hundreds of curious onlookers watched Costa Rica run through drills as the Central American team opened up a practice this week at its World Cup base in St. Petersburg.

National Geographic Reporter Sergey Gordeev gives an inside look at the history behind famed Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and how his legacy lives on today.

VOLGOGRAD, Russia (AP) Beneath Volgograd's baking early morning sun, clouds of midges pester factory workers at the Red October steelworks as they clock in. These workers are the lucky ones - they're still employed, while many of their colleagues were temporarily laid off because of the World Cup.

MOSCOW (AP) The Latest on Friday at the World Cup (all times local):

The key stats in the epic clash between Portugal and Spain, sponsored by Discover.

MOSCOW (AP) The Latest on Friday at the World Cup (all times local):

MOSCOW (AP) Jair Murrufo remembers the first time he picked up a whistle and called a soccer match.

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) Brazil has spent four years trying to atone for its last World Cup match, the calamitous 7-1 defeat as hosts by Germany. Popular coach Tite purged players, eased dependence on Neymar, and rebuilt a team that concedes few goals and blazed through qualification.

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) Romanians have expressed outrage at a cartoon in the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo likening their newly crowned tennis champion to a Gypsy scrap metal collector.

MOSCOW (AP) The Latest on the opening day of the World Cup (all times local):

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) To prepare for his job of keeping Lionel Messi quiet in Iceland's opening game of the World Cup, defender Birkir Saevarsson worked as a salt-packer at a warehouse in an industrial zone of Reykjavik, the Icelandic capital. Not because the 33-year-old seasoned football pro needs the money, but because the monotony of factory work, the graft, the need to cover his neat hair with an unsightly net all helped keep him real.

LEEDS, England (AP) Volatile Argentine coach Marcelo Bielsa has landed his first managerial job in England after taking charge of second-tier club Leeds.

MOSCOW (AP) Costa Rica defender Ronald Matarrita will not play in the World Cup because of a right hamstring injury.