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On Saturday in St. Petersburg, an event long-awaited for the city and football fans took place-the opening and the first match at the St. Petersburg stadium (aka Zenit Arena) between the St. Petersburg Zenit and the Yekaterinburg “Urals”. The hosts won with a score of 2: 0. It seems that the purpose of the match - to confirm the right of Zenit to the stadium with a spectacular victory - was assigned to a judge who at the end of the match immediately resort to three removal of guests in order to open the way to the gate.

Confusion in this match caused strong discontent of fans, football players and football experts. In social networks, it was most often characterized as ugly and compared with the circus. President of FC Ural Grigory Ivanov is sure that the judge brazenly spoiled the match. “Guys are well done. The guys will receive a prize for the match. Because they fought, they played, showed that we have a team. Real men, and not a bunch of stars who get it incomprehensible what money, go out and can’t do anything, ”he said to Gazeta.Ru.

The opening of the stadium was a landmark event for the city. The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko called him historical: “We can state that we have another good stadium that will accept matches of the Confederations Cup, the Club, and the team,” TASS official quoted . He also noted that the match did not allow to completely test the stadium, since only 20 thousand spectators gathered for the first time, while he accommodates almost 68 thousand people.

The announcer was the curious “bonus” of the debut match - as an actor Mikhail Boyarsky, who has long been a fan of Zenit, acted in this capacity. “This is once in honor of the first match in the new stadium. I was not offered on a regular basis. In the meantime, I will simply voice the first match at the St. Petersburg stadium, ”he told Rossiy Gazeta.

Nevertheless, despite the importance of this event, before collecting a full stadium, there is still a greater job. An unpleasant surprise was presented by the roof of the stadium, the construction of which took at least 43 billion rubles. It flows: eyewitnesses in social networks reported about water from the roof arranged in the corridors. An even greater disappointment for the first spectators was the lawn of the stadium: in addition to prompting in those places where the grass did not rise, the audience also saw patches from artificial lawn, laid, for example, near corner flags .

The former goalkeeper of the Russian national team Ruslan Nigmatullin was shocked by the state and quality of the lawn at the stadium: “The opening of the Zenit stadium was terrible in every way. Probably there is a very good VIP-clock. I saw the opening of the stadiums of Lokomotiv, Spartak, CSKA. All this was accompanied by an excellent lawn. Firstly, this is a picture, and secondly, this is the image of the club. From the very beginning, the new Zenit arena is accompanied by some scandals, bad stories. This is a continuation. This is a shame to open the stadium in such a beautiful city with such a lawn. My mother has grass in the garden, the lawn is much better than yesterday at the stadium, where two teams of the Premier League played, ” said Ruslan Nigmatullin, R-Sport.

The vice-governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin stood to protect the honor and reputation of the new stadium: “Friends, there are no problems with the lawn! We were not able to “awaken” it, we are a northern country! The lawn sleeps corny, winter. But we will arouse him! It will be the best field in Russia! Ahead is a reorganization and the best lawn in the country to the Confederations Cup! ” - Albin wrote on his Facebook page. He also said that according to the ticket-board system, there were only 11 thousand people at the opening match, which was almost half as much as Mutko said.

Recall that the construction of Zenit-Arena began in 2007, it was supposed to be completed in 2009 and cost 7 billion rubles, according to the initial cost of the construction of the facility. The construction dragged on for a decade and rose 6 times. At the same time, now there is something to finish and redo, as well as the arena will have to be adapted to the World Cup in 2018. Zenit Arena is one of the 12 stadiums where the world championship matches will be held.

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