MEXICO CITY: The head of Russia’s 2018 World Cup organizing committee admitted on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) that a lot of construction work remains, but said the country is not running behind in its preparations.

Alexey Sorokin, chief of the local organizing committing, said ahead of a FIFA congress in Mexico City later this week that the two biggest stadiums in Saint Petersburg and Moscow are 85 percent ready.

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