Edinson Cavani's brace helps Uruguay advance to quarter finals, Cristiano Ronaldo out
Uruguay eliminated Portugal 2-1 in FIFA World Cup Round of 16 match at Fisht Stadium on Saturday evening.
Striker Edinson Cavani's two goals in both halves helped the South American side eliminate Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal.
The first goal for Uruguay came in the 7th minute, when Cavani headed Luis Suarez's cross inside.
Portugal responded with their own header goal in the 55th minute, when the corner kick met with Besiktas' defender Pepe.
However, Uruguay took the lead just seven minutes after, Cavani took the center stage once again with a sublime curled shot to beat the goalkeeper.
The loss meant the end of the tournament for superstar Ronaldo, eliminated on the same day as Argentine superstar Lionel Messi.
Russia 2018 may be the last World Cup for those two legends as Messi will turn 35 in 2022 Qatar tournament, while Ronaldo will be 37.
Uruguay will face France in the quarter-finals.
Stormy weather on Saturday prompted the authorities in Moscow to close the Russian capital's official FIFA fan zone, which regularly welcomes up to 25,000 soccer fans watching the World Cup on its giant outdoor screens.Bursts of rain and strong winds replaced weeks of heat and sunshine while the fan zone, a magnet for Russian and foreign soccer fans, stood empty, its entrances shut.There were no World Cup games scheduled to be played in Moscow on Saturday, but fans will have to find alternate venues to watch the games of the day: France taking on Argentina in the city of Kazan, and Uruguay facing Portugal in the Black Sea resort town of Sochi."On Saturday 30 June, the fan zone on Sparrow Hills will be temporarily shut," the Moscow city government's department for tourism and sport said in a statement on Friday."This decision has been taken due to expected poor weather conditions, including sharp gusts of wind, expected... in both daytime and in the evening," the department said.The fan zone, located on the Sparrow Hills campus of Moscow State University, was recently the subject of an official warning about possible overcrowding."Unfortunately, storms and hurricanes are no longer rare in Moscow. There's a storm warning in place for tomorrow," Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin wrote on Twitter on Friday."For your safety, restrictions have been introduced on the operation of parks and on street trading, as well as a temporary restriction on the fan zone in Sparrow Hills," he added.
Moscow closes World Cup FIFA fan zone due to stormy weather
An Indian soccer fan, in Russia for the World Cup, died in a car crash on Saturday on a road near the tournament host city Sochi, Interfax news agency cited sources as saying.The incident, the first reported death of a World Cup visitor to Russia, was blamed by police on the driver, although Russian roads are notorious and claimed over 19,000 lives in 2017.A statement released by the regional police department said a Russian taxi driver and an Indian citizen died at the scene and another Indian passenger was taken to hospital. It didn't say whether the victims held World Cup tickets."Around 6.50 a.m. the duty officer of the Sochi police department was informed of a traffic incident on the road between Adler and Krasnaya Polyana," the statement said."According to preliminary reports, the Renault Logan taxi drove on the wrong side of the road, violating road regulations, and crashed into a bus," the statement said.The mountainous road between the two southern resort towns is near the World Cup host city of Sochi, where on Saturday evening Uruguay is set to take on Portugal in one of the first games of the knockout stages of the tournament.The person hospitalised as a result of the crash is in stable condition, the police statement said. 
Indian fan dies in car crash in Russia near World Cup city Sochi