Why Brazil and Argentina fans are fighting in streets of Bangladesh

In the sweltering heat of a Dhaka backstreet, twenty-four-year-old Mehedi Hasan stands beneath a canopy of mismatched nylon flags, his face painted in the sky-blue and white stripes of the Argentine national team.

He is not in Buenos Aires; he is over 9,000 miles away.

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