"We've been close friends for a long time because she was Assistant Secretary General at NATO and I occupied the same post, so we communicated every day," Dirioz told journalists.

He added that he wanted to watch the game at the stadium but if he failed to get a ticket, he would go to the FIFA Fan Fest at Moscow's Vorobyovy Gory.

The final between 1998 World Cup winners France and Croatia will take place at the Luzhniki Stadium on Sunday.