What time will TV show the opening match of the World Cup in Omsk

On Sunday, November 20, the FIFA World Cup kicks off in Qatar. In Omsk, his first game will be shown at 21:45. It will meet Qatar and Ecuador.

In Qatar on Sunday, November 20, the World Cup begins. As already known, the Russian team was not allowed to it for political reasons, having been removed from the play-off qualifying matches in the spring. So the tournament may not be too interesting for many fans for this reason.

Those who will still follow the championship games can cling to the TV screen at 21:45 – at this time, Qatar (hosts of the tournament) and Ecuador will start playing the opening match. It will be on the Match TV channel. And the opening ceremony is shown there already from 20:40 Omsk time.

The atypical time of the World Cup – November-December – is due to the intense heat in Qatar, which is traditional there in the summer. Even when it just won the right to host (at the same time as Russia-2018), it was immediately announced that the months of the event would be just like that. So in the situation in the middle of the European club season, the matches are on a compressed schedule, more on average per day than usual. Plus, the opening match is not on Friday, but on Sunday.

Already shortly before the championship, due to the negative position of the Qatari authorities towards LGBT people, a whole storm of hysteria fell on the host country from the so-called “civilized world” – the USA and the EU, where the press and politicians simply competed in anger and aggression.

You can evaluate them at least in a selection of Western cartoons from the Pool #3 Telegram channel.

Formerly MK in Omsk wrotethat two former Irtysh players – Vladimir Sychevoi and Maxim Osipenko – were included in the extended squad of the Russian national team.