📸 A dog in the stands?! This World Cup really has it all

As Bernd Stromberg once so aptly said: "A dog in the office? I might as well write my own resignation right away!"

>Even more absurd than a four-legged friend at work, however, were the images the TV cameras captured during the World Cup match between Argentina and Cape Verde.

>In the VIP stands sat a dog wearing ear protectors, apparently following the action on the pitch far more attentively than its owner.

>While Lionel Messi and co. were battling the brave underdogs for a place in the round of 16, the shaggy spectator kept being picked up by the TV cameras and quickly became the star of the evening.

>And, as is the way these days, it didn’t take long for the four-legged fan to conquer social media as well. An Instagram profile created especially for him gathered more than two million followers in no time.

>You can criticize this World Cup for a lot of things. But one thing you definitely can’t say is that it lacks spectacular, bizarre, and sometimes completely crazy stories.

>This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.