"As you know, one of the sports bases called Borskaya was chosen by the Uruguayan team, which plans to come already and deploy its team on the territory of this base already on June 9," Dmitry Svatkovsky said.
The base camp in the town of Bor is located just northeast of Nizhny Novgorod.
Russia will host its first FIFA World Cup from June 14 to July 15. Apart from Nizhny Novgorod, matches will take place in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Volgograd, Kazan, Samara, Saransk, Rostov-on-Don, Yekaterinburg, and Sochi.
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