

On some days, the limit is only two packs per person. But before handing over the first pack, he surveys the line that forms down the block and rations out the quantity that each customer can take home. On the days he can get his hands on packs of figuritas, he offers them for sale at 6 p.m. But you have to go stand in line.”Īcuña said that he had his response to the frenzy down to a science. “Yes,” responded the store owner, Ernesto Acuña. “Do you have figuritas?” he asked breathlessly.

But the tournament is a feeling that money can’t buy, our soccer correspondent writes.

Lavish Spending: No expense has been spared in putting on a show in Qatar.
