Fans flock to Russia as World Cup opens

Office worker and soccer fan Fu Rong, 27, will start a relatively economical but complicated journey to the World Cup in Russia to realize her dream of watching her favorite star, Lionel Messi, and Argentina's storied team.

Fu, who works at a Beijing-based public relations company, will fly to Irkutsk, a city in Siberia, on Sunday, where she will take a 30-hour train trip to Novosibirsk, followed by another 25 hours on a train to Yekaterinburg.

"It will be my first time to see Argentina play a World Cup match in a stadium," she said.