From Sochi to Saint Petersburg – via Grozny. Russia’s 2018 World Cup base camps
By David Owen
January 30 – Twenty years have passed since I was dispatched on one of those hardship assignments: a visit to L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Pâtisserie in a quiet little town noted for its brioches in La France profonde.
I remember being impressed by a Citroën 2CV, made entirely of chocolate, just inside the entrance. But it was what had put the establishment in the news that really intrigued me: the school was the chosen 1998 World Cup base of the football team from the Islamic Republic of Iran,
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