It's a momentous second every single soccer fan dreams of - lifting the World Cup for his or her country.
And, with less than a month to go before the first ball is kicked in Brazil, Davood Khatami and Dominique Jarry lived out that very fantasy this week inside the former's Steveston café.
Granted, they weren't raising aloft the genuine FIFA Holy Grail of soccer - but it's an actual size/weight replica Khatami and Jerry have gotten their hands on for next month's World Cup Village in Steveston and it's close enough for the soccer-mad pair.
"It's a beauty, isn't it?" grinned the Iranian-born, Germany-supporting Khatami, as he carefully removed the famous trophy from its display case.
"It's as close as it gets to the real thing and soccer fans are going to be desperate to have their photo taken with this."
The World Cup kicks off June 12 in Sao Paulo when Brazil takes on Croatia in the opening game.
And throughout the tournament's 32 day duration, the same number of local businesses have signed up to transform Steveston into a World Cup Village, with promises to decorate their stores in the colours and traditions of their adopted World Cup-competing country.
There are also plans for mini-street parties, musicians, promos, giveaways and competitions, with each participating business hosting a 'National Day,' during the World Cup, in which all the focus for that day will be on them.
"The plan is for me to deliver our World Cup trophy to whatever store or business is having its "National Day," said Steveston World Cup Village inventor and Bean and Beyond Café owner Khatami.
"That whole day, they can show the World Cup off and then, when it's all over, it will be coming home with me to Bean and Beyond."
Chocolatier Jarry, meanwhile, is baking up a plan to make a lifesize replica chocolate World Cup cake, worth about $500.
"It will take about a week to make and will be made with real French chocolate," said Frenchman Jarry.
"And the plan is to present the cake to the business that gets the most votes for hosting the best National Day."
The Richmond News is also getting in on the act with a "Best Dressed Pavilion" competition, where readers can vote for the business they think has added the most colour or invention to the World Cup
Village fun. If you pick the store that gets the most votes, then your name will be in the hat to win a prize and if your business gets the most votes, you'll get a trophy to mark the achievement and a free quarter-page ad in the Richmond News.
People can vote by downloading the free Steveston app and scanning the code in the window of the business or by voting on a special World Cup poll at richmond-news.com.
Khatami, who hosted a "World Cup draw" last month for participating businesses to get a National Day date, said he's knee deep in preparations for the big kick off.
"We're in the process of finalizing a whole bunch of details right now and I'm meeting with someone from Carlsberg, which sponsors the English Premiership," an excited Khatami said.
"I'm hopeful of getting sponsorship and all kinds of great promotional stuff to help with the World Cup Village.
"We've also just about got the World Cup passports ready for the kids and the worldcupsteveston. com website is now live. We're getting ready to party, man!" he exclaimed.
Khatami said World Cup fever is starting to spread across Richmond's cultures, with Asian newspaper Ming Pao showing interest this week in covering the growing World Cup village story.
Watch out for more World Cup Village stories in the News as the tournament gets closer.
