Below is my attempt to pair each national football team that are in the quarter finals currently with an individual stock that I feel can best represent the team
France - $LVMH-Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton(LVMHF)$
The powerhouse of luxury goods with an umbrella of prestigious brands under them, we could see why the France team is LVMH
The luxury conglomerate formed from the 1987 merger of the renowned fashion house Louis Vuitton and wines and spirits company Moët Hennessy represents the French team star players Kylian Mbappe (LV) and Karim Benzema (Moet Hennessy) fittingly
Argentina - $Tesla Motors(TSLA)$
Everyone Argentinian knows the importance of Lional Messi is to the Argentina Squad and of course every tesla shareholders know the importance of Elon Musk is to Tesla
When Messi/Musk fails to perform usually the team/stock struggle to win the match/share price drop although I think it would be foolish to bet against them as both of are generational talents.
Portugal - $Apple(AAPL)$
Either you love Apple having never used a phone or laptop that is not an iPhone or MacBook or you have never touched a single Apple products in your life.
The same can be said of Tim Cook, Apple CEO or Cristiano Ronaldo, captain of the Portugal team. Either you love C. Ronaldo or you hate C. Ronaldo, there's no in between.
Netherlands - ASML Holdings NV $ASML
You simply can't hate the Netherlands squad, which invented 'total football' where every player can take over any role during the game, this tactic allows the Netherlands squad to dominate other teams back in the 1970s
ASML currently dominate the chipmaking industry with their superior chipmaking machine and it might take many years before they can even call anyone their competitor, I call this 'total chips'
Brazil - Netflix Inc $NFLX
Probably the most supported national team in the world, every football or even non football fan will want to tune in to watch the Brazilian entertain spectators with their samba magic.
Naturally, for entertainment everyone will want to tune in to watch Netflix. No stock represents Brazil more than Netflix in terms of entertainment values.
England - Barclay PLC $BARC
The Barclay Premier League rings a bell to every football fan outside of the world cup as the most watch football league in the world
$BARC being a tradition bank can represent England football team traditional approach to each match playing it safe and lauching a counter attack when the opportunity presents itself. Barclay ability to withstand each financial crisis is strongly mirrored by England's squad ability to withstand each opponent attack and therefore a perfect representation.
Croatia - Coca-Cola Co $KO
Croatia always outlive everyone's expectations and seems to always make a deep run in every world cup, they even made it to the finals in the previous world cup.
$KO will represent Croatia well, if you had own $KO all along you won't be disappointed with the Croatia-like deep run Coca Cola did each year with their dividends out living everyone's expectation even till now.
Morocco - Intel Corporation $INTC
The true underdogs of the tournament, Morocco national team has a similar story to Intel Corporation
Nobody is expecting Intel to ever mount a challenge the chips made by Nvidia or Samsung or Apple is similar to nobody expecting Morocco to beat Portugal, Brazil or France.
But as the saying goes, the ball is round so always expect the unexpected.
YES, I hope I did a good job matching the national teams to individual stocks. I will be rooting for Brazil to win the world cup this year and also Netflix share price to recover :)
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