“Finally, someone who also goes to football. So hopefully there will be at least twenty of us,” greeted fans in the jerseys of the Czech national team shortly after boarding the Prague-Hamburg train. Apparently, they were worried about how the Turkish hell promised to the media and the opponent’s supporters would look like in the stadium. The reality was completely different.
Even at the main station in Hamburg, a few hours before the crucial duel of Group F in the European football championship, after getting off the train, one slowly had the feeling that one had arrived in Istanbul.
Turkish jersey at every turn, people with big Turkish flags. The same when moving around the city. A crescent moon and a star peeped from some car.
Not to mention, the Turkish minority in Germany is also very prominent in Hamburg. Although not as much as in Dortmund, where the Turkish footballers played the first two matches of the Euro. Anyway, Hamburg lived by the match with the Czech Republic.
“Will your attacker start? What’s his name… Patrik Schick!” inquired a guy in a Turkish jersey, giving the impression that he could hardly name the names of other Czech footballers.
However, the Turkish media also ignored the last opponent in the group and rather thought about who Turkey will challenge in the round of 16 tournament.
The self-confident fans, on the other hand, promised that hell awaits the Czechs in the 50,000-seat stadium. There were also derisive voices about the fact that traffickers took advantage of the FAČR’s imperfect ticket distribution system and the tickets got to Turkey’s supporters.
Where the hell. Czech could already be heard in the vicinity of the Volksparkstadion.
Fans of Tomáš Souček et al. they had their numerous procession. Funny signs “Svíčková is better than kebab” could be seen, perhaps even in a beer variation, but they were not allowed into the stadium due to exceeding the permitted size of the banner.
However, during the warm-up, the Czechs started playing the classic “Who doesn’t jump isn’t a Czech” in the stands and a lot of people caught on right away. The outnumbered Turks, with perhaps a million flags in the audience, hardly reacted to this.
Even in the first twenty minutes of the match itself, the Czech fans were much louder. The Turks rather whistled when the opponent held the ball. As if they couldn’t really get along in large numbers.
Their first salvo came only after the red card for Antonín Barák.
Emotions were slightly raised by the scuffle of several fans at the end of the second half, after the first goal the Turks turned on the lights. However, the real hell was unleashed by the Czechs after Souček equalized at 1:1.
During the subsequent Czech attacks, not a single word could be heard in the audience and the self-confidence of the Turks was seriously shaken. They almost didn’t let Vladimír Coufal play the corner, they showered him with a shower of cups for so long.
They remained under stress until the very end, which they could enjoy to the fullest after scoring 2:1. Regardless of the shoving on the field or the intrusion on the field by a madman with a crescent moon on his shirt.
But it was not the promised hell even later on the streets of Hamburg. Just light jabs in the form of honking when the Turkish driver aired the Czech jerseys.
The Czech fans would perhaps deserve a round of 16 against Austria in the favorable location of Leipzig for Wednesday’s performance.
2024-06-27 06:19:12
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