After the match, several thousand Czech fans went to the nearby Trabrennbahn racetrack to have fun, where the Centropol Český dům found refuge. Less than two kilometers on foot from the stadium, it was a logical choice, especially for those who wanted to listen to a concert by Mirai or Jakub Děkan after the match and didn’t feel like North German beer acts. Draft Staropramen for five euros was rather one of the cheapest things you could drink in Hamburg.
However, thousands of Czechs also went to authentic pubs and bars, some of which even decided to delay their closing time. The Czechs were thirsty. Draft beer was of course the main item, but they weren’t afraid of a harder assortment either.
“Most of you had a fairly solid start. Three to four large beers per hour is seriously over the top. With the arrival of the evening, they switched to local schnapps. Hardly anyone ordered a cocktail or soft drink. I only brought Coke to one person and I was a little surprised. I finally figured out that it was the bus driver. I don’t envy him too much, a couple of guys gave it a good whistle,” Jens, the bartender of one of the “notorious establishments” on the unchaste Reeperbahn street, tells me with a smile on Sunday.
Photo: Jakub Kynčl, Sport.cz
Fresh fish sandwiches are said to act as a cure after a night of overindulgence.
However, the Reeperbahn has one perfectly legitimate reason for football fans to visit, apart from the location of a significant amount of beer and dubious entertainment establishments, of course. There is a fan shop near the FC St. Pauli.
The design of their promotional items for fans is so popular that it is often worn by people who have never visited the club’s stadium. You can see bags with a skull and crossbones in Hamburg every now and then.
Photo: Jakub Kynčl, Sport.cz
The main building with music production perfectly mixes those who start the new day early and those who finish the previous one very late..
However, the Czechs dispersed to many corners of the city. The famous fish market Altonaer Fischmarkt has been operating since 1703 and nowadays it is not only a fish market but also a farmer’s market and a place of entertainment. Except for the winter months, its gates open as early as five o’clock in the morning, and it ends at half past ten in the morning. If I allowed myself to doubt for a moment that someone would be there so soon, I am quietly ashamed.
At half past six in the morning, the markets are already in full swing. There are so many stalls with great coffee around me that I don’t know which one to choose. As I finally clutch the slightly dubious Rastafarian Jessy’s “special coffee” in my hands, I hear the distant boom of music. He won’t give it to me and I go to see where he’s calling from.
Editing of the match Czech Republic – GeorgiaVideo: Czech Television
In the main hall of the Fischmarkt, live music is playing on a stage, and hundreds of people are drinking beer and literally demolishing the local fresh fish sandwiches. Before six in the morning! And of course, Czech jerseys are not missing here either. It is evident from the dancing of the people in question that they did not get up for a morning croissant with coffee and did not come to the 85-year-old Dieter, a local legend, who has been selling his fish specialties at the market for exactly 65 years, for a freshly gutted eel.
Photo: Jakub Kynčl, Sport.cz
The traditional Sunday morning fish markets provided groups of Czech fans with a refuge and a welcome filling of their stomachs.
I am stopped by a local young man in a St. Pauli with a cup of beer in his hand and pats me on the back so vehemently that the Rastafarian coffee barely stays in my cup: “You Czechs are unreal. We drink quite a lot, but you play in a completely different league. And have you seen any Georgians in pubs? I mean, almost not at all. It’s as if they appeared in the stadium and evaporated again after the match. Good, you Czechs never disappoint!’
Some certainties remain.
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