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An interior view shows the construction site at the Central stadium in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, some 1800 km (1118 miles) east of the capital Moscow, March 11, 2011. When Russia won the right to host the World Cup some critics said that long-distance travel within the world's largest country could be tiring for the players and costly for the fans. Yekaterinburg is one of 13 proposed host cities. If it is included in the final plan, which must be approved by soccer's world governing body FIFA, fans could be travelling distances of more than 3,000 kilometres from the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad to this most easterly location. Picture taken March 11, 2011. To match Feature SOCCER-WORLD/YEKATERINBURG REUTERS/Gennady Fyodorov (RUSSIA - Tags: BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION POLITICS SPORT SOCCER)