Tips On How To Celebrate The World Cup This Year

The World Cup has once again rolled around, and fans are preparing themselves to cheer on their national teams. While there is a lot of stigma surrounding the hosting country, many are fixated on celebrating the sport itself while trying to pay no heed to the hosts. As well as this controversy, there is also the slight annoyance from many that the World Cup will be taking place over the winter as opposed to the summer. While this is understandable, as the players would have otherwise had to play in the intense heat of a Qatari summer, it also means that we don’t get to enjoy the classic atmosphere of the World Cup with sitting outside at the pub during big games and generally spending time with friends in the nice weather. Instead, we have to be trapped indoors in the gloom and potentially with snow outside. However, that doesn’t mean that it’s impossible to enjoy this year’s World Cup and to help you with deciding how to celebrate this year, we’ve listed a few suggestions for you to make use of.

Host A World Cup Party
Your first option would be to host your own World Cup party. Ideally, this should be for a big game. Of course, the excitement of a World Cup party is only going to be diminished if your team gets knocked out of the competition, and so it’s somewhat of a gamble making early plans for an England final party, for example. However, making some plans to host a big party for the final regardless of who is taking part may be the best idea, with excitement simply being enhanced tenfold if your team does make it to the final game.

Buy Yourself A Shirt
One of the classic ways for football fans to celebrate their team, whether a local or national team, is to buy a replica shirt. You’ll then be able to show your dedication to supporting your team when watching the game with friends or in public. There are many fantastic kits this year that you could purchase, and naturally, you’ll want to buy a shirt from the team you support. However, if your national team hasn’t qualified, why not pick a favourite design instead? Or instead of buying your country’s current shirt design, you could also opt for a retro one instead, choosing a design perhaps from a great year for your country or even a year that means a lot to you, personally. Of course, you could also just choose from one of the greatest World Cup kits of all time for a real stand-out look.

Buy Some Merchandise
As well as buying shirts and kit replicas, you could also buy yourself some official merchandise from your team’s official store. Of course, you can also find officially licensed merch from independent stores, too. Either way, grabbing some merchandise like a flag to hang out of your window, mugs, hats, bunting, and other decorative or wearable items is a great way to get into the spirit of the World Cup and show your support for your team.

Do A Sweepstakes
You could decide to run a World Cup sweepstakes among your friendship group or in your workplace. This would be where you put the name of every qualified team into a hat and allow everyone to pick one out one at a time. Whichever team they pick is the team that they have to support for the sweepstakes, and whoever wins or gets the furthest, if nobody picks the winner, wins a prize. This prize could be contributed to by everyone taking part, or you could supply the prize yourself if you arranged for the sweepstakes to take place. If you don’t have 32 people playing, you could instead let people have two or three teams so that every team has been picked, guaranteeing a winner of the competition.

Place A Few Bets
If you’re not particularly excited about football in general but really want to get into it for the World Cup, it can really help to make things a bit more interesting. One way in which people do this is by placing bets. You can find out more about online live casinos and betting sites here, and many will have special offers for the World Cup itself and promotions for new players. Don’t forget, though, if you’re going to start gambling during the World Cup, don’t let yourself get carried away. Only bet what you can afford to lose and stop if it no longer feels fun.

Watch The Other Games
Many people that celebrate the World Cup actually end up making a big mistake. This is to only focus on the games that your team plays. This can make the whole event feel underwhelming, especially if your team doesn’t make it to the final. While we’re not suggesting you watch every single game that is broadcast, you should at least consider watching some of the other teams play, especially the favourites tipped to win. You’ll get to see some stellar football being played while also not having the tension and concern that your team is going to concede and lose. You’ll also see some familiar faces in some of the national teams if you’re somewhat familiar with players in the Premier League, for example.

Manage Your Own National Team
This might initially sound confusing but bear with us. We’re not actually suggesting that you become a professional football manager and go on to manage England. Instead, we’re suggesting that you try out the Football Manager 23 game, which has been hailed as the most realistic FM game ever and manage your own national team there. There are many different ways you can play Football Manager, whether it’s building up a small, unknown team or taking over as the manager of one of the World’s most renowned teams and seeing where you can take them. You’ll also get the chance to manage a national team, dictating the team’s tactics and which players will be in the squad. This will naturally give you a newfound appreciation for how much work a football manager has to put into their team.