“Tunisians love football very much … Certainly, they will come [to Russia]. About 10,000 will come. That is an approximate number that we have at our disposal,” she said, when asked whether football fans from Tunisia planned to visit the 2018 World Cup.
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The statement was made at a press conference devoted to the tourism sector of the Republic of Tunisia, hosted by the Rossiya Segodnya International Information Agency.
Russia will host its first FIFA World Cup from June 14 to July 15. The matches will take place in Kaliningrad, Kazan, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Saransk, Sochi, St. Petersburg, Volgograd, and Yekaterinburg.