Bangladesh's World Cup fever gets FIFA recognition
The whole world has known the story of Bangladesh's football frenzy as International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) shared a post about Bangladeshi fan's World Cup celebration along with pictures on its official facebook page.
The world football governing body's official Facebook page on Monday morning recognized Bangladeshi peoples’ enthusiasm to football by uploading a post.
The post contains four images with a caption, “Despite the fact that its team has never qualified for the FIFA World Cup, World Cup fever has taken over Bangladesh - a country with some of football's most passionate fans.”
The images were mostly of Old Dhaka, showcasing how colourfully some of the streets and buildings were painted. There was also an image of fans gathering at TSC to watch a match.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh fans posted on the comment section of FIFA’s post expressing joy and happiness while fans from abroad also cheered for Bangladesh.
One Brazilian fan Ricardo Cunha wrote: “I'm amazed how Bangladesh support Brazil. Thank you all. Bangladesh got a Brazilian Fan. Hope see you in Qatar 2022 or at least see Bangladesh vs Brazil playing a friendly.”
So far, 67 thousand people expressed their emotions while the post was shared 19,277 times till filing of this report on Tuesday morning.
