machete-slagsmål mellom messi- og neymar-fans:

VM skaper opptøyer i et land som aldri har vært med i VM

VM-feberen har grepet godt tak i Bangladesh, der Brasil- og Argentina-fans har barket sammen i voldelige kamper.

This photograph taken on June 6, 2018 shows a child (C) hoisting the national flag of Argentina on the outskirts of Dhaka.
The World Cup has become a matter of life and death in Bangladesh, where machete-wielding fans of Brazil and Argentina have clashed in the streets and flags of the two countries are so ubiquitous that some people want to ban them. / AFP PHOTO / Munir UZ ZAMAN / TO GO WITH Fbl-WC-2018-BRA-Bangladesh-social-charity,SPECIAL by Sam Jahan and Shafiqul Alam Foto: Munir Uz Zaman
This photograph taken on June 5, 2018 shows the facade of a residential building decorated with the colours and national flag of Brazil after a football fan painted the building in Naraygong.
There is still two weeks to the start of the World Cup finals, but the frenzy is already taking a toll in Bangladesh as the country divides between support for Brazil and Argentina. / AFP PHOTO / - Foto: -
This photograph taken on May 17, 2018 shows a Bangladeshi worker sewing flags for world cup football playing nations in Narayanganj, on the outskirts of Dhaka, ahead of the 2018 football World Cup.
Flag makers in Bangladesh are doing a roaring trade weeks ahead of the World Cup, but no-one is interested in the home nation's colours -- the money is all on pennants for Lionel Messi's Argentina and Neymar's Brazil.
/ AFP PHOTO / Munir UZ ZAMAN / TO GO WITH AFP STORY FBL-WC-2018-BAN-BANGLADESH-FLAGS,FOCUS BY SHAFIQUL ALAM Foto: Munir Uz Zaman
A Bangladeshi vendor carrying national flags of countries competing in the forthcoming 2018 Fifa World Cup 2018 waits for customers at a train station as locals travel back home to be with their families ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, in Dhaka on June 14, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / MUNIR UZ ZAMAN Foto: Munir Uz Zaman
This photographs taken on May 30, 2018 shows national flags of countries, competing in the upcoming 2018 World Cup football tournament, being displayed in Dhaka.
There is still two weeks to the start of the World Cup finals, but the frenzy is already taking a toll in Bangladesh as the country divides between support for Brazil and Argentina. The football frenzy reached such a peak that one lawyer tried to get a court order stopping the flying of flags of World Cup nations.  / AFP PHOTO / Munir UZ ZAMAN / TO GO WITH Fbl-WC-2018-BRA-Bangladesh-social, FOCUS by Sam JAHAN and Shafiqul ALAM Foto: Munir Uz Zaman
This photograph taken on May 30, 2018 shows a vendor in Dhaka displaying national flags of countries  competing in the upcoming 2018 World Cup football tournament.
There is still two weeks to the start of the World Cup finals, but the frenzy is already taking a toll in Bangladesh as the country divides between support for Brazil and Argentina. The football frenzy reached such a peak that one lawyer tried to get a court order stopping the flying of flags of World Cup nations.  / AFP PHOTO / Munir UZ ZAMAN / TO GO WITH Fbl-WC-2018-BRA-Bangladesh-social, FOCUS by Sam JAHAN and Shafiqul ALAM Foto: Munir Uz Zaman
This photographs taken on May 30, 2018, shows Brazilian National flags fluttering over for the forthcoming 2018 football World Cup, in Dhaka.
There is still two weeks to the start of the World Cup finals, but the frenzy is already taking a toll in Bangladesh, increasingly divided between support for Brazil and Argentina. / AFP PHOTO / MUNIR UZ ZAMAN Foto: Munir Uz Zaman
This photographs taken on May 30, 2018, shows a Bangladeshi vendor displaying national flags of the countries that are competing in the forthcoming 2018 football World Cup, in Dhaka.
There is still two weeks to the start of the World Cup finals, but the frenzy is already taking a toll in Bangladesh, increasingly divided between support for Brazil and Argentina. / AFP PHOTO / MUNIR UZ ZAMAN Foto: Munir Uz Zaman
This photograph taken on June 6, 2018 shows national flags of Argentina installed on a rooftop on the outskirts of Dhaka.
The World Cup has become a matter of life and death in Bangladesh, where machete-wielding fans of Brazil and Argentina have clashed in the streets and flags of the two countries are so ubiquitous that some people want to ban them. / AFP PHOTO / Munir UZ ZAMAN / TO GO WITH Fbl-WC-2018-BRA-Bangladesh-social-charity,SPECIAL by Sam Jahan and Shafiqul Alam Foto: Munir Uz Zaman
VM-FEBER: I Bangladesh er VM-entusiasmen unormalt høy for et land som aldri har deltatt i VM. Spesielt Brasil og Argentina er populære blant bangladesherne, og de to landenes fanbaser har en intens rivalisering. FOTO: Munir Uz Zuman / AFP

Landet har aldri vært med i VM, og ligger på 194. plass på Fifa-rankingen.Likevel vekker det pågående verdensmesterskapet en lidenskap i det bangladeshiske folk som man sjeldent ser i land som ikke er med.Den store sporten i Bangladesh er cricket, men hver fjerde sommer skiftes fokuset over til fotball og VM. Og selv om landet høyst sannsynlig ikke kommer til å være blant de 32 deltagernasjonene i overskuelig framtid, så er interessen for verdensmesterskapet skyhøy.Spesie