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Sports news: Representatives of group D will play in the debut match at the world championship.

16 June will be the match of the first round of the group stage of the world championship on football in which will play the group D teams of Croatia and Nigeria. The meeting will be held in Kaliningrad at the stadium “Kaliningrad”.

The meeting will begin at 22.00. Broadcast on channel “inter”.

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Recall that also in this group are the teams of Iceland and Argentina. The South Americans are considered to be one of the favorites of the tournament, while the Croats, in the opinion of experts, have the potential to become the second team of the Quartet.

Previously national teams of Croatia and Nigeria are not met. In the updated FIFA rankings Croatia takes 20th place and Nigerians are 48 .