For his 10th World Cup, Clifton Broumand hopes he won’t need to bring a shower curtain to a stadium again.
Four years ago, as a storm raged in the Brazilian beach town of Natal, Broumand couldn’t find a poncho to purchase before the Mexico-Cameroon match. He did, however, locate a shower curtain adorn with blue floral designs and cut a slit in it.
“Everyone was laughing,” he recalled last week, “but I wasn’t the one getting soaked.”
These are the type of weird and wonderful adventures the 60-year-old business owner and World Cup superfan is sure to encounter in Russia in the coming weeks.