VIDEO SHOWS: SOCCER FANS FROM VARIOUS NATIONS GATHERED IN CENTRAL MOSCOW / COUNTDOWN CLOCK TO BEGINNING OF WORLD CUP READING ONE DAY TO BEGINNING OF TOURNAMENT / SOCCER FANS FROM MOROCCO, AUSTRALIA, COSTA RICA MAKING COMMENTS / FANS CHEERING VARIOUS NATIONAL TEAMS SHOWS: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (JUNE 13, 2018) (REUTERS ACCESS ALL) 1.

MANEZH SQUARE OUTSIDE KREMLIN IN CENTRAL MOSCOW, CROWDS OF FANS GATHERED AROUND WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN CLOCK 2.

WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN CLOCK READING TIME TILL BEGINNING OF TOURNAMENT (ONE DAY, FOUR HOURS) 3.

COLOMBIAN FANS CHANTING AND HOLDING UP COLOMBIAN FLAG 4.

WOMAN HOLDING BABY AND WORLD CUP TROPHY SOUVENIR 5. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) MOROCCO SOCCER FAN, ABDELLATIF MASSOUD, SAYING: "The atmosphere is great here in Russia, in Moscow, it really is great.

There are festivities and celebration everywhere, people from all around the world, 32 countries here at once.

God willing, we go to St Petersburg tomorrow to watch a match with the Morocco national team." 6.

MOROCCAN SOCCER ASSOCIATION EMBLEM 7.

MASSOUD WRAPPED IN MOROCCAN FLAG STANDING 8.

MEXICAN FANS CHANTING 9. (SOUNDBITE) (English) AUSTRALIAN SOCCER FAN, GRANT ROBSON, SAYING: "So we're here with a tour group of about 90 Australians, staying a little bit out of the city, doing a little bit of 'touristing' for a few days.

I absolutely love it though, it's a really cool town.

You got the Kremlin, lots of stuff, a lot of history.

Also, the vibe for the World Cup is pretty cool." 10.

FANS GATHERED AROUND WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN CLOCK 11.

MEXICAN FANS 12.

FANS CLAPPING 13.

EGYPTIAN FANS WAVING FLAGS AND CHANTING 14.

COSTA RICAN FANS HOLDING FLAG AND CHANTING 15.

COSTA RICAN FANS 16. (SOUNDBITE) (English) COSTA RICAN SOCCER FAN, CAROLINA SOLANO, SAYING: "We really like it, we like it a lot here.

Everyone here, people from all over the world, so yeah, we are happy to be here." 17.

MANEZH SQUARE IN CENTRAL MOSCOW 18.

WORLD CUP COUNTDOWN CLOCK STORY: Football fever is sweeping Moscow as the Russian capital becomes the stage of endless festivity ahead of the World Cup.

With only one day to kick-off, more and more fans are arriving and the number of flags and national team jerseys surrounding the World Cup Countdown Clock are growing in number and variety.

Soccer chants on on the Manezh Square could be heard in both Arabic and Spanish, as the 2018 World Cup heavily features Latin American and Middle Eastern national teams.

Most of the fans arrive in Moscow first before heading to different host cities to follow their national teams, so the fan festivities are reaching fever pitch.

Apart from being the central transportation hub in European Russia, Moscow will also host the most games in the tournament with two different venues set to host matches.