The video message recorded by the women's team was posted on the men's team's Twitter account Monday.

"We wish our team good luck, and I wish [Russia goalkeeper] Igor Akinfeev to have as many clean sheets as possible, to play the way he can, and he can play very well," goalkeeper Elvira Todua said.

Midfielder Nadezhda Smirnova wished her male counterpart Aleksandr Golovin to be "creative the way you can be, and bring your opponents to a standstill."

Russia will host its first-ever World Cup from June 14 to July 15, with the games set to be held in a total of 11 cities, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Sochi, Kazan, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saransk, Rostov-on-Don and Yekaterinburg.

The host nation will face Uruguay, Egypt and Saudi Arabia in Group A.