Ahead of the Croatia v Morocco third place play-off game at last year’s World Cup, most of the people in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, were – as elsewhere in the country – glued to their TV screens. However, at the biggest open market in the heart of the city one shop was open as if it was just another regular day.
Tihomir Gvardiol came to his small shop as he did for the past 41 years; hailing from a small coastal town of Novigrad, he eventually settled down up north, plying his fish-selling trade. But the World Cup brought different clientele than the usual one, as Tihomir was now facing a long line of journalists, eager to find out why he isn’t in Qatar himself. It isn’t as if his son,
