While it is traditionally a cricket country, Bangladesh -- whose national team is ranked 197th out of 202 in the world by Fifa -- goes World Cup crazy every four years. Last week, a video of supporters marching with a 200 metre-long Argentina flag in the northwestern town of Madarganj went viral on social media. The impoverished country first saw live World Cup matches in 1982. Factory owner Selim Howlader expects to sell several hundred thousand flags as "World Cup fever came early in the country, months before kickoff". Most of them were sold during the World Cup or just days before kickoff.

Source: Bangkok Post May 23, 2018 03:33 UTC