World Cup 2014: Colombia vs Greece

Last week the world cup started in Brazil (duuh). Colombia has been waiting 16 years for this moment, and now it's here! Colombia played their first game against Greece on Saturday. This was just perfect since everybody would be able to watch the game together. We planned beforehand to go to Parque de la 93 to watch the game where they had put up a BIG screen. We went there more than two hours before the game started to get good places. I thought we would be really early and we would have nothing to do, but the two hours went by very fast thanks to for example a show by Cali y el Dandee. The park was filled with yellow and red colours; shirts, flags, scarfs etc. There was such a good vibe going on and the atmosphere just kept you smiling the whole time. When the game started everybody were super excited and the crowd kept cheering on without getting tired.

I am not even sure it's possible to describe the feeling when Colombia scored the first goal, it was amazing, it was crazy, it was like there was nothing else that mattered but jumping and screaming with your hands in the air. And the whole park did the same, and I'm not kidding but there must have been a couple of thousand inside that small park. Just amazing!! Nobody cared if you stepped on their feet or if you hit them in the head - you still were on the same yellow team! Besides this, the crowd started spraying foam out in the air as well as throwing flour on everybody. The end result was that we were all white, but again that only made you happier and more excited about the game. I guess there is no point of explaining how the rest of the game went.. Colombia won 3-0 and every time they scored it was the same excitement in the air, such a patriotic feeling.

Even if the game ended, the crowd didn't. We just continued out to the streets doing the same thing: spraying foam, throwing flour, screaming, jumping and smiling the whole time. People went absolutely crazy! Cars were honking, and driving around with the colombian flag outside the window, the traffic probably stopped a few blocks around the park for all the people jumping around. I guess this is comparable to when Finland won the championship in Ice Hockey, except that Colombia "only" won one game. Anyways, I am very happy to have been here in Colombia during this football-go-crazy-experience, since I doubt Finland will be in the world cup anytime soon..

Waiting for the game to start

The people behind us 

GOOOOOOOOOL!

After the game