English Gus Hully did it again: had beers from each of 32 countries who will participate in the World Cup in Qatar 2022. Proud, he showed them on his social networks and his feat went viral. He had done the same in Russia 2018.
Like all coaches of World Cup qualifying teams, Hully had to make his own team too. Only instead of picking players, he picked beer brands.
“A beer from the 32 countries playing in the Qatar 2022 World Cup. Here we go!” wrote the fan on Twitter and Facebook.
The “selected” from Argentina: Quilmes. “I didn’t choose Quilmes, Quilmes chose me! Argentinian beer is not very common in the UK. The only beer I’ve seen here is Quilmes,” Hully explained to Clarín.
The fan revealed it the most difficult beer to obtain came from Senegal.
“Senegal beer definitely costs more. I found a Russian guy on holiday in Senegal to bring me one, only he lived in Italy so he had to post it to me. I think it’s around £25. Overall. The total I spent it was probably around £150,” Gus recounted.
One day after sharing his success, Hully garnered more than 95,000 likes on Twittera much higher figure than that reached in the post that had made him known on the net.
His other “feats”
In 2018 the fan had done the same with the countries of the World Cup in Russia. That year, his tweet, while widely viewed and commented on, did not reach 30,000 like it.
The idea of collecting World Cup beers came to him in 2010 after seeing a guy trying to do the same on an internet forum: “It didn’t work and I thought I could do better. I tried it in 2014 and It didn’t get much better. , I think I got 23 or something like that. Then I tried Euro 2016 and managed to win them all. I did the same for the 2018 World Cup, 2019 Women’s World Cup and Euro 2020.” .
In the Russian post, the Briton thanked a group of people for supplying him with the rarest beers, suggesting that getting each one is a separate adventure.
One man, for example, was thanked for giving him a bottle of Sakara at a stag do in Egypt. To one Vyara, for buying her a can of Panama Lager; a backpack on his shoulder, for giving him a bottle of Imperial from Central America; and “to a random guy on Twitter,” for sending him a Saudi Arabian one from Libya.
His love of beer collecting wasn’t just limited to the men’s world cups: Gus has also collected bottles made in countries representing Euro 2022 and the 2019 Women’s Soccer World Cup..
And his achievements aren’t exclusively sporting either. For example, the collector obtained the beers from all participating countries in one edition of the song contest eurovision.
Source: Clarin
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