Sportivnaya, the metro station adjacent to the Luzhniki Stadium, has become a veritable fan zone or a meeting place of people from all around the globe.
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People with vibrant happy faces, painted in the colors of the nation they constitute, sing and dance and make merry or simply scream out in joy moving in and out of the stadium against the metro. Once the matches are over, the fanatics to find their mojo, relying on the result of the sport.
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The successful facet obviously enjoys rubbing it into the losers but the ones defeated don’t take it lying down both. A bigger combat outside the stadium is fought through trying to out-chant the other. Numbers matter, so does the power of the vocal chords and flamboyant dressing.
The ‘World Cup’ of fanatics is most often reserved for the south Americans and Mexicans. They for sure know how to capture attention, and have amusing. A surreal Casablanca second was re-enacted in the metro on the night time of Mexico’s victory over Germany.
Inside a packed teach, Mexican women and men have been making a song “Mehhi-Co, meh-hi-co!” a lot to the amusement of the Russian day by day commuters on their manner house from paintings. Smiling and recording the “wearing insanity” on their telephones or simply permitting house to the revellers, they too have been a part of this midsummer night time’s insanity.
All of a surprising, two Russian kids began screaming “Russia, Russia”. They have been right away joined in through a couple of extra. They broke into a Russian tune that didn’t sound like a woeful pining for a sweetheart. It changed into a hollering contest, an overflow of nationalistic feelings identical to in Casablanca, when Viktor Lazlo began making a song La Marseillaise in Rick’s Café to outshout the German counterparts making a song Die Wacht am Rhein, a patriotic, military tune.
It was all in good humour but the inherent concept was redolent of the 1942 Hollywood classic. Fans are an integral a part of the gorgeous game. Without their energy, the spectacle received’t be as soaking up as it is these days.
The Mexicans of their green and crimson bandanas, the Colombians of their stunning yellow wearing a condor, the Brazilians of their canary yellow and green, the Germans with faces painted crimson and black. Every World Cup provides them with the freedom of expression. Imagine a young Iranian lady, draped in green white and crimson, leading a march at the Red Square fan zone. One is forced to start believing once more.
A Bengali couple, which runs two swanky Indian eating places in Moscow and serves daal, begun bhaja (fried brinjal) and maacher jhol (fish curry) to the Russians, said they've controlled to protected tickets for eight matches. “Over the years, the western media has tried to painting a very dismal image of Russia, the explanation why it’s now not a most well-liked tourist destination. But in the remaining three years, the belief has changed. After this World Cup, it's going to be very other,” said the girl of the manor, who came to Moscow 17 years ago.
As the World Cup completes a week, the worry of mismanagement and poor organisation has become but a figment of imagination. Public delivery is working perfectly. The metro, one in all Stalin’s legacies, is proving why it is considered the most productive on this planet. Running on time table and round the clock, it makes travelling on this large town tremendous smooth – tuned to the World Cup matches whilst travelling.
Coaches are fitted with LCD TVs. No pushing, no shoving and no disrespectful gesture against fellow girls passengers even previous nighttime. The girl at the front, guarding the turnstile, says “hello” even at such late hours. She must be running extra time, however it doesn’t display. The military of volunteers, which is making the event run smoothly, is a sight to behold. It’s the youth of Russia, dressed in white and darkish crimson; on 12-hour shifts at the stadium gate, they by no means omit to put on a heat welcoming smile. “It’s our activity,” they are saying.
ALSO READ: FIFA World Cup Diary - Of live shows, cafes and the Matryoshka
People with vibrant happy faces, painted in the colors of the nation they constitute, sing and dance and make merry or simply scream out in joy moving in and out of the stadium against the metro. Once the matches are over, the fanatics to find their mojo, relying on the result of the sport.
ALSO READ: FIFA World Cup 2018 - The pageant of life is back
The successful facet obviously enjoys rubbing it into the losers but the ones defeated don’t take it lying down both. A bigger combat outside the stadium is fought through trying to out-chant the other. Numbers matter, so does the power of the vocal chords and flamboyant dressing.
The ‘World Cup’ of fanatics is most often reserved for the south Americans and Mexicans. They for sure know how to capture attention, and have amusing. A surreal Casablanca second was re-enacted in the metro on the night time of Mexico’s victory over Germany.
Inside a packed teach, Mexican women and men have been making a song “Mehhi-Co, meh-hi-co!” a lot to the amusement of the Russian day by day commuters on their manner house from paintings. Smiling and recording the “wearing insanity” on their telephones or simply permitting house to the revellers, they too have been a part of this midsummer night time’s insanity.
All of a surprising, two Russian kids began screaming “Russia, Russia”. They have been right away joined in through a couple of extra. They broke into a Russian tune that didn’t sound like a woeful pining for a sweetheart. It changed into a hollering contest, an overflow of nationalistic feelings identical to in Casablanca, when Viktor Lazlo began making a song La Marseillaise in Rick’s Café to outshout the German counterparts making a song Die Wacht am Rhein, a patriotic, military tune.
It was all in good humour but the inherent concept was redolent of the 1942 Hollywood classic. Fans are an integral a part of the gorgeous game. Without their energy, the spectacle received’t be as soaking up as it is these days.
The Mexicans of their green and crimson bandanas, the Colombians of their stunning yellow wearing a condor, the Brazilians of their canary yellow and green, the Germans with faces painted crimson and black. Every World Cup provides them with the freedom of expression. Imagine a young Iranian lady, draped in green white and crimson, leading a march at the Red Square fan zone. One is forced to start believing once more.
A Bengali couple, which runs two swanky Indian eating places in Moscow and serves daal, begun bhaja (fried brinjal) and maacher jhol (fish curry) to the Russians, said they've controlled to protected tickets for eight matches. “Over the years, the western media has tried to painting a very dismal image of Russia, the explanation why it’s now not a most well-liked tourist destination. But in the remaining three years, the belief has changed. After this World Cup, it's going to be very other,” said the girl of the manor, who came to Moscow 17 years ago.
As the World Cup completes a week, the worry of mismanagement and poor organisation has become but a figment of imagination. Public delivery is working perfectly. The metro, one in all Stalin’s legacies, is proving why it is considered the most productive on this planet. Running on time table and round the clock, it makes travelling on this large town tremendous smooth – tuned to the World Cup matches whilst travelling.
Coaches are fitted with LCD TVs. No pushing, no shoving and no disrespectful gesture against fellow girls passengers even previous nighttime. The girl at the front, guarding the turnstile, says “hello” even at such late hours. She must be running extra time, however it doesn’t display. The military of volunteers, which is making the event run smoothly, is a sight to behold. It’s the youth of Russia, dressed in white and darkish crimson; on 12-hour shifts at the stadium gate, they by no means omit to put on a heat welcoming smile. “It’s our activity,” they are saying.
World Cup Diary: Joyride - the last metro in Moscow
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June 20, 2018
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