Football and the festival of joy: Karachi vendors stock up jerseys, scarves, shoes

If you walk into Karachi’s Light House market during the football season, you realize how much people enjoy the sport. There's a shop named CRonaldo, another called Ozil Sports, and everywhere you turn, walls are papered with player posters and draped in the flags of competing nations. This is how sports vendors decorate their stalls, creating a vivid, chaotic welcome that signals one thing: football has taken over the city.