Putin and Zenit at Maracana
It was international friendly, young generations of our players played a game. It was working day and the chaos in the city caused by blocking the main roads…. with all of that… almost 30,000 people on the stadium! North stand almost full, our singing had not stopped, most of the time it was very loud and inspired singing… at the same time, some of our friends were on the way to Athens…
Although we expected rigorous control at the entrance, entrances were not over-crowded. Of course, there were those who were lost at the stadium since the entrance was free so many of them came in order to tell someone that they were at the North stand of Maracana. At the entrance to Maracana, red-blue-white flag colors were distributed to people. Those flags can be "Russian" as needed. At the fence, there were a few flags, "Sabac", "Kosovo", "Novi Sad" ... At the East stand, there were two black - yellow – white flags, where one was on the fence, and the other was on a platform… Those were the flags of Imperial Russia.
Before the game, Ivana Zigon with her choir sang the anthem of Russia and Serbia. When the Russian anthem was sung, our national flags were turned upside down, so they looked like Russian flags.
We were singing to Kosovo and Metohija, Uros Misic, Serbia, Russia, and Red Star… We chanted to Putin, and our brothers, Spartak Moscow. A lot of songs, ie. chants were dedicated to Russian-Serbian relations, and to President Putin, whose entry into the stadium was followed by singing of the entire stadium “Kacusa”, and later, with “Ooooo Putin” (to the tune “Oooo Red Star”)... An appropriate banner at that particular moment was seen at the North stand (in 4 lines):
"Старший брат поцелуй матушку нашу и скажи ей,
скажи ей что мы достойны,
что мы боримся и будем бороться,
скажи ей что мы любим ее!"
At that point, we turned on a lot of strobe lights, flares, together with firecrackers...
Before and after that, except for standard songs dedicated to our club, we sang: Боље Лада него Фиат, Ти си Звездин четник Путине, Руси и Срби браћа заувек, Русија, Fuck You NATO Fuck You...
A great moment occurred when the whole stadium was jumping with “И ко не скаче тај је шиптар......” The West stand experienced delirium with this song…
Toward the end, the day before the anniversary of NATO bombing, we paid a tribute to all victims of the terror: "March 24th 1999. Everlasting glory of all the victims of NATO's terror!" And over the fence was a banner "Serbian-Russian brothers forever!"
Finally, we called our team “the Champions”, and Zenit’s players with chanting Russia, Russia…
Pictures of this event are posted in the gallery at:
http://www.delije-caffe.net/galerija/ind...1/CZ_zenit
It was international friendly, young generations of our players played a game. It was working day and the chaos in the city caused by blocking the main roads…. with all of that… almost 30,000 people on the stadium! North stand almost full, our singing had not stopped, most of the time it was very loud and inspired singing… at the same time, some of our friends were on the way to Athens…
Although we expected rigorous control at the entrance, entrances were not over-crowded. Of course, there were those who were lost at the stadium since the entrance was free so many of them came in order to tell someone that they were at the North stand of Maracana. At the entrance to Maracana, red-blue-white flag colors were distributed to people. Those flags can be "Russian" as needed. At the fence, there were a few flags, "Sabac", "Kosovo", "Novi Sad" ... At the East stand, there were two black - yellow – white flags, where one was on the fence, and the other was on a platform… Those were the flags of Imperial Russia.
Before the game, Ivana Zigon with her choir sang the anthem of Russia and Serbia. When the Russian anthem was sung, our national flags were turned upside down, so they looked like Russian flags.
We were singing to Kosovo and Metohija, Uros Misic, Serbia, Russia, and Red Star… We chanted to Putin, and our brothers, Spartak Moscow. A lot of songs, ie. chants were dedicated to Russian-Serbian relations, and to President Putin, whose entry into the stadium was followed by singing of the entire stadium “Kacusa”, and later, with “Ooooo Putin” (to the tune “Oooo Red Star”)... An appropriate banner at that particular moment was seen at the North stand (in 4 lines):
"Старший брат поцелуй матушку нашу и скажи ей,
скажи ей что мы достойны,
что мы боримся и будем бороться,
скажи ей что мы любим ее!"
At that point, we turned on a lot of strobe lights, flares, together with firecrackers...
Before and after that, except for standard songs dedicated to our club, we sang: Боље Лада него Фиат, Ти си Звездин четник Путине, Руси и Срби браћа заувек, Русија, Fuck You NATO Fuck You...
A great moment occurred when the whole stadium was jumping with “И ко не скаче тај је шиптар......” The West stand experienced delirium with this song…
Toward the end, the day before the anniversary of NATO bombing, we paid a tribute to all victims of the terror: "March 24th 1999. Everlasting glory of all the victims of NATO's terror!" And over the fence was a banner "Serbian-Russian brothers forever!"
Finally, we called our team “the Champions”, and Zenit’s players with chanting Russia, Russia…
Pictures of this event are posted in the gallery at:
http://www.delije-caffe.net/galerija/ind...1/CZ_zenit