Poland team would make an appearance in the World Cup after 12 years as last time they have played the World Cup back in 2006. This was an excellent show off by the Polish team as they entered in Euros Quart Final held in France. Although, they were defeated by Denmark in September by 4-0 and yet that was a worst defeat by Denmark in last 15 years.

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World Cup 2018 Friendlies – Schedule

This team lots it’s first World Cup Friendly match against Nigeria by 1-0 on 23^rd March, but soon they recovered as they defeated South Korea by 3-2 on 27^th March, 2018.

• 23rd March – Nigeria (lost 1-0)
• 27th March – South Korea (won 3-2)
• 8th June – Chile
• 12th June – Lithuania

World Cup 2018 Schedule – Poland

Poland would face Senegal, Colombia and Japan during their World Cup official campaign.

• 19th June – Senegal
  24th June – Colombia
  28th June – Japan

Adam Nawalka – Coach – Poland (World Cup 2018)  

The former assistant of Leo Beenhakker but, for one year was appointed as coach of Poland team in 2013. Like all the other coaches of big teams, Adam also holds a strong career profile. Under his coaching, they won the Polish title and reached to knockout stage of Euro 2016. The former midfielder of Wisla is looking forward to this mega event that is quite important for his team obviously.

Poland Team Squad – World Cup 2018 – Lineups

Robert Lewandowski is now confirmed that he is added in team squad officially. The top goal scorer during qualifying round with 16 goals is placed in attacking side. The centre-back player Kamil Glik is no doubt one of the important assets for the Polish team with a rocking ability of defense.

• Goalkeepers – Lukasz Fabianski, Lukasz Skorupski, Wojciech Szczesny
• Defenders – Bartosz Bereszynski, Thiago Cionek, Kamil Glik, Artur Jedrzejczyk, Marcin Kaminski, Michae Padzan, Lukasz Piszczek
• Midfielders – Jakub Blaszczykowski, Jacek Goralski, Kamil Grosicki, Grzegorz Krychowiak, Rafal Kurzawa, Karol Linetty, Krzysztof Maczynski, Taras Romanczuk, Maciej Rybus, Piotr Zielinski
•  Forwards – Dawid Kownacki, Robert Lewandowski, Arkadiusz Milik 

On the other side, Lukas Piszczek showed a marvelous and excellent potential during the match against South Korea a he scoring a match winner goal by remaining in attacking side. While Piotr Zienlinski has also a key player and showed his talent in limited time yet he is also part of official Poland team squad for the World Cup 2018 (Russia) to be started on 14^th June, 2018.

There are too many players of Poland as compared to the opponents are going to make their international debut. The striker Kamil Wilczek played agains Armenia. Maciej Makuszewski and Jan Bednarek are also in the list of new comers playing the World Cup for the first time.

England is the only team who qualified for the FIFA World Cup 2018 easily without any trouble. They played total 10 matches and won all of them, but they scored only 18 goals in 10 matches. Although they also struggled with their some of the departments including their midfield lineup. During the World Cup qualifier 2018, the Wembley stadium witnessed a lot of disappointed, but still England successfully managed to keep the trend and figures of highest average attendance.

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World Cup 2018 Friendly Schedule – England

The English team played against Costa Rice which went Drew in result, while England defeated Netherlands by 1-0. Now they would face Nigeria and Costa Rica on 2^nd & 7^th June, 2018.

England – World Cup 2018 Schedule

English team is looking forward to play some of the toughest teams of it’s Group G. They would face Tunisia on 18^th June, 2018 and then Panama & Belgium on 24^th and 28^th of June, 2018.

Gareth Southgate – England Coach – World Cup 2018

Freshly appointed coach of England, Gareth came into charge in 2016 with a deal of four-year contract. Like many other coaches of different teams, Garth also holds a solid and credible profile. He played the World Cup 1998 Final in which England lost the match. He was also part of the English team who appeared in semi-final match of Euro 1996 in which England missed the crucial penalty shoot and lost.

England Squad – World Cup 2018 – Lineups

Harry Kane will be captain of English team squad and he deserves captaincy too as he is a match winner like the way he played in recent matches scoring crucial goals. Dele Ali is also part of the English team squad for FIFA World Cup 2018. The midfielder of Liverpool, Jordan Henderson was the favorite man of coach Southgate.

• Goalkeepers – Jack Butland, Jordan Pickford, Nick Pope
• Defenders – Ryan Bertrand, Joe Gomez, Phil Jones, Harry Maguire, Danny Rose, John Stones, Kieran Tripper, Kyle Walker, Ashley Young
• Midfielders – Dele Alli, Eric Dier, Jordan Henderson, Jesse Lingard, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Jack Wilshere
• Forwards – Harry Kane, Marcus Rashford, Raheem Sterling, Jamie Vardy

On the other side, Eric Dier and Manchester City’ Kyle Walker has been added in the list of players going to Russia. Manchester United’ Marcus Rashford is also added in England team squad.

While Wayne Rooney is not going to participate in the World Cup after announcing his retirement. Adam Lallana and Daniel Sturridge would also miss the flight because of injury.

Where some players are missing, at same time few new faces to come out like Harry Winks and Michael Keane. They will make their debut for the World Cup and even in international football.

Historical and important matches were played between Tunisia and Congo in which Tunisia won the game against opponent and qualified for the FIFA World Cup 2018. They also went through preliminary round and group phase in which they won almost 8 games and won 6 out of them. This team had made some important changes and improvements in their team playing at home and away home during the phase of World Cup 2018 qualifying round.

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Tunisia World Cup 2018 Friendlies

Tunisia have played against Iran and Costa Rica during World Cup 2018 friendly matches campaign and in which they have defeated both the teams by 1-0 each. Now they would face Portugal and Turkey following Spain in their next matches of the same campaign as per the scheduled mentioned below.

• 23rd March – Iran (won 1-0)
• 27th March – Costa Rica (won 1-0)
• 28th May – Portugal
• 1st June – Turkey
• 9th June – Spain

Tunisia World Cup 2018 Schedule

Being the member of Group G, Tunisia would face England, Belgium and Panama on 18^th, 23^rd and 28^th June, 2018.

• 18th June – England
• 23rd June – Belgium
• 28th June – Panama

Coach – Nabil Maaloul – Tunisia World Cup 2018

Freshly appointed, Nabil Maaloul is going to coach of Tunisia team during the World Cup 2018 campaign. He was appointed back in 2017 on three-year contract basis. This is for the 2^nd time that Nabil is being coaching the national team as he was first appointed before 2014 World Cup, but he quit later. He started  his career for national team in early ages and was youngest player during Olympics 1988.

Squad of Tunisia – World Cup 2018 (Official Lineup)

Youssef Msakni is going to be an important asset for his team and obviously going to Russia with his team squad as well. Youssef opted money platform rather talent exploring opportunity by playing in Qatar instead of Europe.

• Goalkeepers – Moez Ben Cherifia, Farouk Ben Mustapha, Aymen Mathlouthi
• Defenders – Aymen Abdennour, Syam Ben Youssef, Yohan Benalouane, Dylan Bronn, Oussama Haddadi, Yassine Meriah, Al Maaloul, Hamdi Nagguez
• Midfielders – Karim Aouadhi, Mohamed Amine Ben Amor, Ahmed Khalil, Said-Eddine Khaoui, Wahbi Khazri, Ferjani Sassi, Ellyes Skhiri, Naim Sliti
• Forwards – Anice Badri, Fakhreddine Ben Youssef, Taha yassine Khenissi, Youssef Msakni

The Goal Keeper Aymen Mathlouthi would be also there in the squad for World Cup 2018. While on the counter side Ali Maaloul will be playing at left midfield. Naim Sliti and Ferjani Sassi are also in the squad and placed at midfield position along with Wahbi Khazri.

After struggling a lot and improving their form in last 4 years, they have finally qualified for the World Cup for the first time after finishing at third position in their group and that too happened dramatically when they defeated Costa Rica. Panama have got some really potential and talented players for a long time, but they will face some serious games which can throw Panama team out the group easily.

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World Cup Friendlies 2018 – Panama

They have faced Denmark and Switzerland in the World Cup friendly campaign and have lost both of them, now they would face Northern Ireland and Norway on 28^th May and 6^th June respectively.

• 22nd March – Denmark (lost 1-0)
• 27th March – Switzerland (lost 6-0)
• 28th May – Northern Ireland
• 6th June – Norway

World Cup 2018 Schedule – Panama

Being the member of Group G, Panama will play against Belgium, Tunisia and England. Dates Panama matches have been given below.

• 18th June – Belgium
• 24th June – England
• 28th June – Tunisia

Panama Coach – Hernan Dario Gome

The Panama team is looking forward to World Cup 2018 under the coaching of Hernan who was appointed as Panama coach back in 2014. The Colombian footballer is now an expert in the South American and CONCACAF qualification. He has also provided his services as coach to Colombia in 1998 and Ecuador in 2002. Although he failed to deliver in the tournament by eliminating in the 1^st stage for two times consecutively.

Panama Squad World Cup 2018 – Official Lineup

Panama squad is not acquiring some of professional players, while one credible player is there in team like Roman Torres who definitely deserves captaincy. He is quite in form and physically fit, a threat for the opposition.

• Goalkeepers – Jose Calderon, Jaime Penedo, Alex Rodriguez
• Defenders – Felipe Baloy, Harold Cummings, Erick Davis, Fidel Escobar, Adolfo Machado, Michal Amir Murillo, Luise Ovalle, Roman Torres
• Midfielders – Ricardo Avila, Edgar Barcenas, Miguel Camargo, Armando Cooper, Anibal Godoy, Gabriel Gomez, Valentin Pimentel, Alberto Quintero
•  Forwards – Abdiel Arroyo, Blas Perez, Luis Tejada, Gabriel Torres

They still have some experienced players who have been playing for the team on group base that consists of Jaime Penedo the goal keeper, Felipe Baloy the defender, Gabriel Gomez the midfielder and Blas Perez, Armando Cooper & Luis Tejada, the strikers are part of squad for the FIFA tour.

On the other side, midfielder Amilcar Henriquez won’t be there to participate as he was killed in a robbery back in April 2017. He was really an important asset for the team who got 84 caps

Sweden team has been quite impressive in the World Cup 2018 qualifying phase beating Italy in play-off and creating a history. They have been unbeaten at home, defeating France in Solna and brutally knocking out the Dutch team as well, all this is a kind of signal that they have given to their group mates for the World Cup 2018. Newly appointed coach Janne Andersson has done this amazingly making their defensive unit more effective and their last 7 winning streak is ultimate proof of it.

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Sweden Schedule Of World Cup 2018 Friendlies

Despite being ruthless in the qualifying round, they slower down their form in the World Cup friendly matches as they were defeated by Chile on 24^th March, while they were also defeated by Romania on 28^th March. Denmark and Peru are their next oppositions to be faced on 2^nd and 9^th June, 2018.

• 24th March – Chile (lost 2-1)
• 28th March – Romania (lost 1-0)
• 2nd June – Denmark
• 9th June – Peru

Sweden Schedule Of World Cup 2018

Being member of Group F, they would face South Korea on 18^th June, 2018 which is a toughest side to compete with. While the defending champion Germany will be waiting for them on 23^rd June and then they would fight against Mexico on 27^th June, 2018.

• 18th June – South Korea
• 23rd June – Germany
• 27th June – Mexico

Janne Andersson – Coach of Sweden – World Cup 2018

He was appointed as coach of Sweden back in 2016 (June) on contract basis consists of 3 years. Janne was replaced by Eric Hamren by the ending of Euro Cup 2016. Andersson started his career representing Laholms FK. Now he is a part of Sweden team as head coach for the next 3 years till 2019.

Sweden Squad World Cup 2018 – Lineups

Emil Forsberg is part of official lineup of Sweden for the FIFA World Cup 2018 matches, and he will be staying at left side. It is for sure that the Swedish star and captain Andreas Granqvist is quite active and will be leading his team with more possession and affection. On the other side, Ola Toivonen will also in action for the sake his team.

• Goalkeepers – Karl-Johan Johnsson, Kristoffer Nordfeldt, Jacob Rinne
• Defenders –Andreas Granqvist, Filip Helander, Niklas Hult, Pontus Jansson, Johan Larsson, Victor Lindelof, Mikael Lustig, Martin Olsson
• Midfielders – Viktor Claesson, Jimmy Durmaz, Emil Forsberg, Alexander Fransson, Oscar Hiljemark, Sebastian Larsson, Sam Larsson, Gustav Svensson
• Forwards –  Marcus Berg, John Giudetti, Isaac Kiese Thelin, Ola Toivanen

Jakob Johansson, who played extremely well against Italy and scored a match decider (Winning One) in that match may skip the World Cup officially, yet not confirmed, but he may miss the World Cup performance.

Alexander Fransson is also added in the team squad and he would be making his debut for the World Cup.

One of the most energetic and dangerous teams of World Cup 2018 Mexico has fastened it’s seat belt to make their breath taking and attacking appearance in the mega event to be held in Russia. Like few of the of other teams, Mexico have also qualified for the FIFA World Cup 2018 with ease and that’s why opponents of Mexico from the same group are bit under pressure.

Mexico Schedule – World Cup 2018 Friendlies

The Mexican team has defeated Bosnia, Iceland and Croatia. While they are now to face Wales, Scotland and Denmark from May 28 onward.

• 1st February – Mexico vs Bosnia (won 1-0)
• 24th March – Mexico vs Iceland (won 3-0)
• 28th March – Mexico vs Croatia (lost 1-0)
• 28th May – Mexico vs Wales
• 2nd June – Scotland vs Mexico
• 9th June – Denmark vs Mexico

Mexico World Cup 2018 Fixtures/Schedule

This would face some of the dangerous teams like Germany, South Korea and Sweden as the mentioned below schedule.

• 17th June – Germany vs Mexico
• 23rd June – South Korea vs Mexico
• 27th June – Sweden vs Mexico

Coach of Mexico – FIFA World Cup 2018

This coach freshly appointed back in 2015, before starting his career as Coach, he was assistant of Stuart Pearce at Manchester City. He has a solid profile as player and coach. He has served Brazil, USA and now Mexico. He has won the title with Once Caldas and more three titles with Atletico Nacional (Columbia).

Squad of Mexico FIFA World Cup 2018 – Lineups

Javier Hernandez, one of the best players of Mexico, but currently struggling with form is looking forward to this event. Event he had not a fine start being a member of West Ham, but still the coach and selectors trust him and has given him a chance too.

• Goalkeepers – Jesus Corona, Guillermo Ochoa, Alfredo Talavera
• Defenders – Edson Alvarez, Nestor Araujo, Hugo Ayala, Jesus Gallardo, Miguel Layun, Hector Moreno, Diego Reyes, Carlos Salcedo
• Midfielders – Javier Aquino, Giovani Dos Santos, Jonathan Dos Santos, Marco Fabian, Andres Guardado, Hector Herrera
• Forwards – Jesus Corona, Javier Hernandez, Raul Jimenez, Hirving Lozano, Oribe Peralta, Carlos Vela

Andres Guardado, the skipper of Mexican team is yet a best player in team at age of 31. He has 143 international caps and obviously more to be added in his profile. He would be leading the national team in World Cup by playing in midfield. Hector Herrer, Jesus Corona and Miguel Layun are also perfectly fine and eligible & confirmed to play the world cup 201 (Russia).

Due to injury, Alfredo Talavera would miss the chance to fly to Russia along with the team, while Hirving Lozano is a rising star and he would be making debut for Mexico team during the World Cup. Rest of the team squad list is mentioned above the image.

Finally Serbia have finally qualified for the World Cup 201 after failing to qualify for three big events. Although failing from different major events, they have finished as group winner during the qualifying round of World Cup 2018. After failing, the officials of Serbian Football Federation fired their national team coach Slavoljub Muslin on the behalf of his 3-4-3 system that was considered as too much defensive, but yet they scored 20 goals.

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Serbia World Cup Friendlies 2018

Serbia played against Morocco on 23^rd March, 2018 which they failed to win, while they defeated Nigeria by 2-0 on 27^th March, 2018.

• 23rd March – Morocco (lost 2-1)
• 27th March – Nigeria (won 2-0)

Serbia Schedule FIFA World Cup 2018

Serbia would face three different dangerous teams of its group. Their inauguaral match of World Cup is scheduled to be played on 17^th June, 2018 against Costa Rica, while Switzerland and Brazil on 22^nd and 27^th, 2018.

• 17th June – Costa Rica
• 22nd June – Switzerland
• 27th June – Brazil

Mladen Krstajic – Serbia Coach – World Cup 2018

After the sacking of Musliln, Mladen Krstajic was appointed as head coach of Serbian team for the FIFA World Cup 2018. He is coaching for the first time as he has no back ground as coach, but as centre-back player as profession. He is also working with a Chineese Football Club called Guangzhou R&F and he is expected to divert his full time attention to the Serbian team.

Official Squad of Serbia – Line Ups – World Cup 2018

Despite being out of form, Dusan Tadic still managed to keep his position stable for the World Cup. Aleksandar although not working well for his clube Manchester City, but he has scored total 6 goals in the qualifying campaign.

• Goalkeepers – Marko Dmitrovic, Predrag Rajkovic, Vladimir Stojkovic
• Defenders – Dusan Basta, Branislav Ivanovic, Aleksandar Kolarov, Nikola Maksimovic, Matija Nastasic, Ivan Obradovic, Antoinio Rukavina, Dusko Tosic, Milos Veljkovic
• Midfielders – Marko Grujic, Filip Kostic, Adem Ljajic, Nemanja Maksimovic, Nemanja Matic, Luka Milivojevic, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Dusan Tadic, Andrija Zivkovic
• Forwards – Aleksandr Mitrovic, Aleksandr Prijovic

Vladimir Stojkovic was quite effective in the World Cup qualifying round showing his professional skills and experience in resisting the opposition’ attacks. While on the other side, Nemanja Matic is also back in the squad playing at central figure in midfield.

Majit Gacinovic who has played extremely well in his early ages. He was part of teams who won 2013 Under-19 Euro Cup and World Cup 2015 Under-20. Now he is going to make his debut for the team in World Cup 2018.

Costa Rica is still struggling with their form beside qualifying for the World Cup 2018 as they have gone through different disappointed phases yet including their World Cup qualifying round. They are having a fear in their lineups as they are lacking many factors to meet the standards of a quality team. Their golden years are past now, but present team is still confused and weaker than before, that have to admit.

Although the Costa Rice defeated Mexico and USA at home back in March 2017, but their form is shacking since and the confidence is down to the target line.

Cost Rica World Cup Friendlies 2018 Schedule & Fixtures

This played against Scotland which they won following a defeat against Tunisia on 27^th March, 2018. Now they would face Northern Ireland, England and Belgium on 3^rd, 7^th and 11^th June, 2018.

• 23rd March – Costa Rice vs Scotland (won 1-0)
• 27th March – Tunisia vs Costa Rica (lost 1-0)
• 3rd June – Northern Ireland vs Costa Rica
• 7th June – England vs Costa Rica
• 11th June – Belgium vs Costa Rica

World Cup 2018 Fixtures of Costa Rica

Rica would face three dangerous teams of the World Cup. Being a member of Group E, they would face Serbia on 17^th, Brazil on 22^nd and Switzerland on 27^th June, 2018. The schedule is mentioned below.

• 17th June – Serbia vs Costa Rica
• 22nd June – Brazil vs Costa Rica
• 27th June – Switzerland vs Costa Rica

Oscar Ramirez – Coach Costa Rica – World Cup 2018

He was appointed back in 2015 replacing Paulo Wanchop who desperately resigned. He is a world cup player who dominated Costa Rica national team playing at midfield position in the World Cup 1990. After getting retirement from international football, he joined the Costa Rica team as technical assistant, and then was appointed as Santos de Guapiles.

Official Squad of Costa Rica For World Cup 2018

This team has some energetic and active players for different football clubs in Europe playing at expensive costs. Keylor Navas, Joel Cambell and Bryan Ruiz are added in the squad. Many of the players are still a part of this team who played and participated in World Cup 2014 held in Brazil.

• Goalkeepers – Leonel Moreira, Keylor Navas, Patrick Pemberton 
• Defenders – Johnny Acosta, Francisco Calvo, Oscar Duarte, Cristian Gamboa, Giancarlo Gonzalez, Ronald Matarrita, Bryan Oviedo, Jose Salvatierra, Michael Umana, Kendall Watson
• Midfielders – Christian Bolanos, Celso Borges, David Guzman, Ulises Segura, Yeltsin Tejeda, Rodney Wallace
• Forwards – Joel Campbell, Bryan Ruiz, Marco Urena, Johan Venegas

Giancarlo Gonzalez, Oscar Duarte, Celso Borges, Marcos Urena and Yeltsin Tejeda are still part of Costa Rica on the behalf of consistent performance and long experience. While on the other side, Alvaro Saborio, the striker of Costa Rice won’t be able to participate in the World as he made his retirement announcement in 2014 after injury.

Switzerland have won their 9 consecutive matches during the qualifying round. Beside winning the 9 matches, they still ended up on 2^nd position by a single goal difference between Portugal. They have also maintained the 2^nd position after defeating Northern Ireland by 1-0 to qualify for the FIFA World Cup 2018. Many of Swiss players have been key players for their team, like Ricardo Rodriguez, Fabian Schar, Xherdan Shaqiri, Haris Seferovic and Granit Xhaka, who are young players living mid-twenties lives.

Switzerland World Cup 2018 Friendlies Schedule

Like all other teams, Switzerland had to play 4 matches total in the World Cup fixtures, two matches they won back to back. The Swiss team played against Greece and Panama and won both of them. Now they would face Spain & Japan on 3^rd and 8^th June, 2018 respectively.

• 23rd March – Switzerland vs Greece (won 1-0)
• 27th March – Switzerlnd vs Panama (won 6-0)
• 3rd June – Spain vs Switzerland
• 8th June – Japan vs Switzerland

Switzerland World Cup 2018 Schedule

Being the member of Group E, this team will place some of the dangerous teams like Brazil, Serbia and Costa rica on dates that are mentioned below.

• 17th June – Brazil vs Switzerland
• 22nd June – Serbia Brazil vs Switzerland
• 27th June – Costa Rica Brazil vs Switzerland

Vladimir Petkovic – Coach of Switzerland – World Cup 2018

Ottmar Hitzfeld was fired and Vladimir was brought in the team as Coach of Swiss team back in 2014 who led the team to lasting stage of Euro Cup 2016. He has also provided his services to the Swiss Club like Lazio in Series A. He has a solid profile as a football player, he won a league in 1985 representing Sarajevo and spent most of his career for the Swiss team.

Switzerland Squad & Line Up World Cup 2018

This team has an energetic and young squad for the upcoming mega event World Cup 2018 to be held in Russia starting 14^th June, 2018 where Germany would defend their title of champion. Zherdan Shaqiri has not impressed the selectors, but still he is part of team squad of Switzerland.

• Goalkeepers – Roman Burki, Marwin Hitz, Yann Sommer
• Defenders – Manuel Akanji, Johan Djourou, Nico Elvedi, Michael Lang, Stephan Lichsteiner, Francois Moubandje, Ricardo Rodriguez, Fabian Schar
• Midfielders – Valon Behrami, Blerim Dzemaili, Gelson Fernandes, Remo Freuler, Xherdan Shaqiri, Granit Xhaka, Denis Zakaria, Steven Zuber
• Forwards – Josip Drmic, Breel Embolo, Admir Mehmedi, Haris Seferovic

Yann Sommer has been replaced Diego Benaglio as goal keeper, while the captain is Stephan Lichsteiner who would be in attacking position coming from right-back position. On the counter side, Rodriguez is also added back in the squad.

Defender Manuel Akanji would make his debut for the Switzerland team along with Remo Freuler and Steven Zuber. Rest of the squad has been mentioned above.

The FIFA World Cup 2018 qualifying round is based on a long duration consists of couple of months probably few years and that was indeed well planned by the officials of FIFA. There are many teams including from Africa, Asia, South & North Central America, Europe and Caribbean states. This time the procedure of qualification is quite different than the previous world cup had happened.

World Cup qualification is based on group qualification method in which total 200 football nations participated for the 32 eligible spots. You can watch live stream of FIFA World Cup 2018 warm up or friendly matches online.

Before entering directly in the World Cup 2018 officially, all the 32 teams will go through a friendly match phase and each would play 3-4 World Cup friendly matches. FIFA has also named the friendly as Warm Up matches and all these would be played in Russia.

This been quite a nervous stage for the participants to play a warm up/friendly phase of the FIFA World Cup as the limited times all the teams have and they have to point out their weaknesses and improvement parameters. Mostly coaches make recalls to many players they avoid in selecting for the mega event and managers use each and every tactics possible to make their squad or lineup event more better and effective.

During the Warm Up World Cup 2018 matches, many of the managers changed their strategy and planning like the manage of England’ team has done. He brought Kyle Walker and Kieran Trippier from back to starting lineup in a game against Netherlands. While the Russian team allowed some of their young boys to step in the team after the performances against Germany.