World Cup fever – in pictures

A local spiderman at the Copacabana in Rio Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian

A manicurist in Rio paints a woman's nails with the flags of some of the competing countries Photograph: Pilar Olivares/Reuters

A sheep, dressed in the colours of the Colombian national team, grazes on grass during an exhibition in Nobsa, Colombia. The sheep is named Falcao, after the Colombian player Photograph: Jose Miguel Gomez/Reuters

A street performer imitating Diego Maradona with the trophy outside the Maracanã Stadium in Rio Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the Guardian

Kolkata artist Shayama Prasad Dey displays a three-centimetre-tall replica of the World Cup trophy, made of pulses Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters

A woman wearing a self-made hat celebrating the upcoming tournament Photograph: Lai Seng Sin/AP

An Indian boy gets his head painted at a saloon in Mumbai Photograph: Rafiq Maqbool/AP

An aerial view of a neighbourhood in Manaus decorated for the tournament Photograph: Bruno Kelly/Reuters

A Kolkatan artisan cuts the hair of a clay model depicting Brazilian player Neymar at a workshop Photograph: Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters

Back in Kolkata, kite makers Ajit Datta, left, and Saikat Datta arrange some special kites depicting the national flags of the teams participating in the tournament Photograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPA

Blue tang and coris gaimard (the orange fish) take food from a bait-packed ball in a fishtank designed to resemble a football pitch at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama Photograph: Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images

The streets of Hong Kong are adorned with some caricature models of World Cup football stars, including Steven Gerrard Photograph: Imaginechina/REX

No prizes for guessing who this fan on a beach in Rio supports Photograph: Eddie Keogh/Reuters

An orange coffin is displayed in the window of a florist in The Hague Photograph: Bart Maat/EPA

Ecuardor fan Manuel Loor performs tricks as he prepares to welcome the national team in Viamao, Brazil Photograph: Rodrigo Buendia/AFP/Getty Images

It's no wonder this elephant is sporting a Brazilian flag as it's using the outside of his foot to kick the ball at Mae Sa Elephant Camp in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand Photograph: Wichai Taprieu/AP

Vegetable vendors wait for customers in front of a local football fan club decorated with Brazil and Argentina posters in Kolkata Photograph: Piyal Adhikary/EPA

Black, red and golden stripes adorning the face of the Karl Marx statue in Chemnitz, Germany and an 18x5m wide German national 'shirt' covers the pedestal of the Marx Monument Photograph: Harry Haertel/EPA

Local Indian footballers carry cut-out portraits of Brazil's Neymar, right, and Argentina's Lionel Messi to a local club in Kolkata where people are decorating their clubs with football-related paraphernalia Photograph: Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images

A man has his picture taken as he becomes his own Panini sticker during an event to exchange stickers at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. Italian publishing company Panini has issued a sticker album for every World Cup since the 1970 tournament in Mexico, and hundreds showed up at the stadium for the chance to fill their 2014 Fifa World Cup Brazil editions Photograph: Reuters

A diver clad in the South Korean kit plays keepy-uppy among sardines at the Coex Aquarium in Seoul Photograph: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images

In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the brightly painted minibuses known as tap-taps are getting a bit more colourful in the lead-up to the World Cup as they get a paint job, though no one told the artist that Zlatan Ibrahimovic won't be playing in Rio as Sweden failed to qualify Photograph: Dieu Nalio Chery/AP

World Cup mascot Fuleco performs next to inmates during the opening ceremony of the football championship for prisoners at the Castro Castro Prison in Lima. Peru's prison service have organised a national championship between inmates of various jails Photograph: Rodrigo Abd/AP

Models Annika Silkeit, right, and Filiz Koc wear World Cup-inspired dresses in German and Brazilian colours, created by fashion designer Manuela Offenborn Photograph: Jens Buettner/AP