Colo Colo Vs. Gimnasia
Hola Compadres,well, as mentioned previously, I went to a BIG futból game last week.
Colo Colo ( a huge club here, the best and most popular team at the moment- very much a working class team, a team of the people) verses a team from La Plata, Argentina.
So, we (James, Helen and I) went to the ground to buy some tickets. It was anexperiencee in itself buying them; The stadium is kinda in 'the hood' and before and after we bought the tickets some local kids were trying to get some easy money I suppose, which made thing interesting. One kid in particular was pretty cool. Hetriedd to sell me a dirty Colo Colo cloth thing but I didn't have enough change on me (I couldn't just walk by, you could tell that he reallywass in need-I'm too soft for all this kinda stuff) and on theway back hetriedd to sell me this massive Colo Colo flag like the size of a sheet! So I told him no thanks, I don't have enough cash on me, and I don't need a sheet for my bed, but gave him the little bit of change I had: He impressed me with his perserverance... good times...
So, with that kind of first impression, we made ourselves ready for the game. When we bought the tickets we weren't in any sort of disguise- We must've stood out a mile. All of us have lightish hair (for perspective, mine is the darkest- and Helen's is like real blond) so we made sure we wore hoodies so, if needed, we could fit into the crowd fairly well.
So, at around 8.30ish we made our way to the ground. And we encountered no hassling at all- I guess because it was dark... So we pretty easily found our stand (a good stand, and it was well worth it- The cheap stands are pretty wild I'll tell you more later) but the seats were pretty full, so we sat on the steps; right in the middle of the stand, pretty much at half way.
The atmosphere was brilliant,across to the side we could see the cheap stand packed out with crazy fans: Singing about a hundred different songs, with the drums and everything, jumping up and down at times- the place was buzzing! Across on the other side of the ground there was the stand for Gimnasia fans. The stand was nuts; completely surrounded by a huge fence (as the whole ground was, butthiss was heaps higher) and just a smattering of very brave people with banners.
James (ah huge futból fan) was in heaven- and the game hadn't even started yet...
The players came out through one of those tube things for protection and the crowerupteded-Literally; there were these people in the crowd firing full on flares, everyone jumping up and down singing the Colo Colo song.
So the game got started, A very free flowing game..You could see that Colo Colo had the edge by far. The crowd reactions where so good There was an audible 'oooh' every closish goal, and ther was this old guy beside me who was saying '**** tu Madre' every minute- to the ref, to the opposition and with many variations of ****... even one of the songs had that as a line (I shouldn't laugh but it was rilarious).
The score was 1-1 by half time. Colo Colo's goal was by their sensational mid fielder Matias Fernandez(who has just been sigbed by a club in Spain) and every time he touched the ball you'ld here people shouting 'Mati'- the guy is class (and only like 20 or 21). I was well impressed with Alexis Sanchez, he's like only 17 and has speed and skills to burn, he's going to play in Italy next year I think.
In the second half the striker scored 3 mean as goals. Suazo is all class as well...
So, in the end, it was a walk over for Colo Colo (but only the first leg, they played them in Arg. last night and won 2-0)
But the game ended in contreversy: Some idiot in the crowd threw a bit of the staduim they kkicked off at an opposing player! So the game was called off at that point (it was near the end anyway). Unbelievable... It was pretty funny the next few days, whenever I told someone I went, they were like 'it was you!' they still ahven't found out who did it.
After the game we planned to take a Taxi back, but unfourtunalty every taxi we bumped into was booked or something... so we walked for 2 hours trying to find one- and eventually we did (just in time, we were pretty wasted by that point)... Next time (We have to go to the semi) we'll have to plan that better... or go with friends with a car.
So that was my first Futból eperiance in S.A... good times, may it not be the last!
Chao Chao, catch you all later
Nathan
3 Comments:
Wow! sounds awesome! mum is really freaked out! haha! she is huffing and puffing away heart beating and all... says its real scary but to keep telling it like it is!
yeah, youve got to go the the semi ay! imagine if rugby games were that wild!!! haha... so did you get to take anything into the stadium or was the security real tight?
ok, keep up the good blogs!
the security can't have been all that tight with people using flares and such... there was proabably some dodgy ref involved.... or maybe Don King.....
That sounds like super fun. Did you take a camera with you?
Keep up the blogging. I frequently check it.
Laters,
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