ST. PETERSBURG, June 11 (Sputnik) - Students from a local children's sports school took part in the Croatian national football team's first training session on Russian soil ahead of the FIFA World Cup, a Sputnik correspondent reported Monday.
Croatia's footballers and coaching staff arrived in St. Petersburg earlier on Monday. Their base camp is located just outside Russia's second largest city.
Zlatko Dalic's men will face Nigeria in their first match of the tournament to be played in Kaliningrad on Saturday, before also facing two-time champions Argentina in Nizhny Novgorod on June 21 and Iceland in Rostov-on-Don on June 26.
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