PLEASE READ - A Canadians experience at the game - YES I was there
WOW,
What an experience!!!
I posted on this site awhile back asking how to get tix...
first off you can't buy tix there..I bought them
online (they come out the week before) and it was nuts to see the line-up of people picking the tix up that they bought online-with NO computers in the booth...the staff was manually looking for and handing the tix out.
This was one of the craziest experiences of my life -
I have never seen such passion anywhere...especially
at a sporting event.
I am from Toronto where hockey rules - we love our Maple leafs and have rivalary's with Ottawa and Montreal. But they can come to the game and not worry about DYING !!
Let me explain that I'm a HUGE Sheva fan...I was born in Kiev, Ukraine and have loved soccer/football since I was a kid.So I follow him and Milan for the past years and it was a dream come true and a great coincidence when my girlfriend (who is living in Cremona,Italy) wanted to go to Florence for her b-day and I saw that they were playing there. I convinced her to go with me and so we went...me in my Sheva jersey and MILAN scarf. I had no idea that it was a recipe for disaster. good thing I had a jacket on that can zip all the way up. I was lucky (or unlucky) to sit near the visitors section (which is easy since NOBODY wants to sit there) - where my fellow Milan brothers were...right when I got there...a milan supporter called me over and I thought it was to say hello or something...as I got closer he was about to spit in my face in a crack in the fencing...luckily his friend noticed my scarf and stopped him. He yelled to me - WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE - you have to come here!!!! I asked him how I can join him over there - IMPOSSIBLE. with giant fencing and bars making it impossible.also as I was climbing the stairs my leg was pulled from under the fence as a Milan fan tryed to pull me under the fence - to kill me !!!
The passion was awesome - I was loving it - even though they were trying to kill me. My girlfriend was not as amused.
the game was disapointing althouh I was impressed with Toni - I never hear of him before and right from the begining he was the best player on the field. My boy sheva tryed hard also - but football is not a game that one player can win.
Not only was the foul call bullshit ( it looked bullshit to me also at the game) but NOBODY on the forum said anything about the HAND BALL that was not called. It was very obvious even from my seats. Even though I couldn't argue it or cheer for theMilan goal from my seats - I was constantly biting my tongue. Luckily I was speaking english and noone understood that I was cheering for Milan.
And it was crazy to see that the "ushers" or security don't do anything...if I was getting attacked they wouldn't notice - they are all busy watching the game...which here is a big no-no.
Overall an unbelievable expereice that I showed my friends the pics and video I took and they were blown away also.
I was hoping to see some highlights when I got back to the room - no problem - they showed football highlights all night on like every channel
I loved it.
I want to put up some pics but don;t know how to do it.
I'm a fan for life now and will be keeping an eye on this site and the team. I got home last night to watch highlights of my man score 4 goals - I guess he felt bad for disappointing me in Florence
I'd love to hear other "foreigners" experiences with a match and any pics or highlights from the game would be appreciated.
Anyone else at the game - I'd love to hear what you thought and if you have any pics/vids.
GO MILAN GO - GOOOOOO SHEVAAAAA
Alex
redlyfe@hotmail.com