On June 27, the matches of the 3 rounds of the group stage of the World Cup in teams E and F ended.

After these matches, the names of two more pairs of the 1/8 finals of Mundial.

The Brazilian team will start the first round of the playoffs with a match against the Mexican team, while Switzerland will meet Sweden at the same stage of the tournament. Matches will be held on 2 and 3 July respectively.

The last couple will be known on June 28. Previously, the first pairs of the world championship were formed based on the results of groups A and B, as well as groups C and D. Early participation in the round of the playoffs was reserved by Belgium and England.

__________________________ Recall that 9 countries, including Ukraine, Australia, Finland, Japan, Denmark, Iceland, Great Britain, Poland, Sweden, declared a diplomatic boycott of the World Championship in Russia. The reasons for this were the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine and Syria, the poisoning of Russian ex-intelligence agent Sergey Skripal in Britain, the starvation of Ukrainian political prisoners, including the director Oleg Sentsov, and the systematic violation of human rights in the Russian Federation.

Unlimited hunger strike Sentsov announced May 14, 2018. His main demand is the release of more than 60 Ukrainian political prisoners who are behind bars in Russia. This requirement of the director was supported by the US State Department, the EU, the Canadian Parliament and.

In 2015, a Russian court illegally sentenced Sentsov to 20 years in a strict-security colony. The actions in support of the director were held all over the world, including in Russia.