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Now the city is preparing to be the centre of world attention when it hosts some of this summer's football World Cup...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eThe Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi rose to global prominence in 2014 when it hosted the Winter Olympics.\u003cbr/\u003e              Now the city is preparing to be the centre of world attention when it hosts some of this summer's football World Cup matches.\u003cbr/\u003e              The Fisht Olympic Stadium is one of the best venues that has been built for the world football showcase, yet so far it has hosted just seven football games to date, four of them at last summer's Confederations Cup.\u003cbr/\u003e              Sochi no longer has a professional club, with the Zhemchuzhina youth team all that remains from the previous vibrant football scene.\u003cbr/\u003e              The professional club Zhemchuzhina was founded in 1991 and then played in the Russian Premier league until 1999. \u003cbr/\u003e              Due to financial problems the club, which changed its name over the years, eventually folded in 2012. \u003cbr/\u003e              The following year FC Sochi was founded in its place.\u003cbr/\u003e              FC Sochi played one game last year in front of 6,000 fans in the 47,000-seat arena, then soon after it also disappeared. \u003cbr/\u003e              In total since 2003, there have been five failed attempts to run a club in the city, not counting the most recent incarnation of FC Sochi, with all collapsing due to financial problems.\u003cbr/\u003e              There have been rumours that a team from Saint-Petersburg will be transferred to Sochi to be based at the Fisht stadium, but nothing concrete has happened so far. \u003cbr/\u003e              Sports commentator Petr Shadrin believes the Russian authorities are struggling to put the Sochi Olympic legacy to good use. \u003cbr/\u003e              He thinks it would have been a far more logical decision to base the stadium at Krasnodar, which is the main city in the region.\u003cbr/\u003e              Although the professional football scene is in disarray in Sochi, on an amateur level the game still plays a dominant part in many people's lives.\u003cbr/\u003e              According to Sochi Street Football League club administrator and arbiter Andrey Chernobrivko, there are already 80 registered street football teams.  \u003cbr/\u003e              Meanwhile tourists flock for selfies in front of plaques in the Olympic Park bearing the names of 2014 medalists, including some who lost their medals for doping.\u003cbr/\u003e              Many of the visitors see the World Cup as a way to restore Russia's image.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Sochi - 29 May 2018 \u003cbr/\u003e              1. Various of Zhemchuzhina youth team getting ready for a match \u003cbr/\u003e              2. Various of team during training \u003cbr/\u003e              3. Various of Vladimir Lushin giving pep talk before game \u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Lushin, Zhemchuzhina youth team coach: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"If we are talking about an adult team, we don't have one unfortunately. And it's a big tragedy for Sochi and for many Russian cities without a football club. Because the children must have something to aspire to when they play sport.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Sochi - 30 May 2018 \u003cbr/\u003e              ++NIGHT SHOTS++\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Various of amateur teams playing football\u003cbr/\u003e              6. Various of amateur referee Andrei Chernobrivko at the beginning of match \u003cbr/\u003e              7. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Andrei Chernobrivko, amateur referee, and manager of amateur football club: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Little by little we have formed 80 teams. We now have five leagues and they are divided by their skills from the highest to the lowest league. The guys are just ordinary football lovers, we almost never have professional players. They're just simple guys who want to try out their skills.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              8. Various of football game \u003cbr/\u003e              9. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Ed Khalilov, security and survival instructor, amateur football player:  \u003cbr/\u003e              \"It's the world's most popular sport. It's a cool game. I have played football since I was a child. I played both football and hockey. But one can play football all year long, both in summer and in winter. Especially here in Sochi. I wasn't born here, I've been living here for three years, and I'm just loving the fields in this city, given that there's no winter here.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Sochi - 31 May 2018 \u003cbr/\u003e              10. Zabivaka, Russia 2018 mascot, and Fisht stadium in the background \u003cbr/\u003e              11. Pan of Fisht stadium \u003cbr/\u003e              12. Various of tourists taking pictures near Russia 2018 sign \u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              FILE: Moscow - 11 May 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              13. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Petr Shadrin, sports commentator at Kommersant FM: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"They're trying to use the (Olympic) stadiums in any way they can. It's clear that there should be one World Cup stadium for every one region. And it would be logical, way more logical, if they chose not Sochi but Krasnodar (main city of the Krasnodar region where Sochi is situated). Because there's a new stadium in Krasnodar where the system of video playback has already been installed. It's one of the most advanced football cities in the country.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              14. Cutaway of eyes \u003cbr/\u003e              15. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Petr Shadrin, sports commentator at Kommersant FM: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"But they chose Sochi. Not because is more of a football city, but because it is more successful and has beaches. You can get to a beach from Krasnodar, too. But because they must use this (Winter Olympics) infrastructure somehow. It's still a problem.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              \u003cbr/\u003e              Sochi - 31 May 2018 \u003cbr/\u003e              16. Various of people sunbathing at the beach \u003cbr/\u003e              17. Wide of coast \u003cbr/\u003e              18. Tourists walking, one with inflatable  \u003cbr/\u003e              19. Olympic torch with Fisht in the background \u003cbr/\u003e              20. Man rides a motor bike with a boy \u003cbr/\u003e              21. Mid of Olympic rings \u003cbr/\u003e              22. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Roman Streltsov, tourist: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"I think that the World Cup will go well. Our country's prestige is at stake. The country's prestige must be boosted. Especially now that the political situation is that we're being pressured from everywhere and there are sanctions everywhere. We must respond to it somehow.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              23. Wide of square in Sochi centre \u003cbr/\u003e              24. Various of girl in fountain \u003cbr/\u003e              25. Close of Russia 2018 sign on a building\u003cbr/\u003e              26. 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