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In the shadow of The Motherland Calls, the world’s tallest sculpture of a woman, Anna, 28, was having a stroll in Volgograd before the World Cup game between England and Tunisia.

Anna had never attended a league football game in Russia but said she loved the sport and planned to go to a number of games in her home city with her mother and sister.

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