Nation's love affair with soccer sees investors score

When a man has beer and soccer game to watch, it's like when Coke meets with Mentos mints, full of passion and energy.

By counting the number of beer cans scattered on the tea table in our living room in the mornings, I know roughly how late my husband has stayed up to watch the ongoing 2016 UEFA European Championship.

A newspaper page editor, he has been rotated onto the night shift this month. For a man back home from the office at around 1 am, a quick shower and sleep won't do. Catching a soccer game on TV with beer and snacks like spicy peanuts, on the other hand, is the best way he finds to relax during the midsummer nights.