Strike a pose! Dani Alves, Julian Draxler and Fedor Smolov join Natalia Vodianova on Vogue Russia cover for World Cup

Jamie Teather11 June 2018

The Fifa World Cup curtain will be raised later this week, and it seems that Vogue Russia have well and truly caught football fever.

Vogue Russia have released their magazine for June with a number of the stars for this summer's tournament making the front cover.

Brazil full-back Dani Alves, German starlet Julian Draxler and Russian forward Fedor Smolov accompanied Russian supermodel Natalia Vodianova on the front of the magazine. Alves will miss the tournament having undergone surgery on his knee after damaging the cruciate ligament, but that hasn’t stopped him from getting involved in the World Cup build-up.

Vodianova was present during Russia’s successful World Cup bid back in 2010, when the model’s native Russia fought off bids from England, a joint bid from Belgium and the Netherlands and a joint bid from Portugal and Spain.

Fedor Smolov and his Russian compatriots will kick-off the World Cup on Thursday when they face Saudi Arabia in the opening game of the competition on Thursday in the Luzhniki Stadium, Moscow.

Smolov has been linked with a possible move away from his current club Krasnodar to the Premier League with West Ham the rumoured destination, though Standard Sport understand that the Hammers had no interest in the striker .

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