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CSKA is the owner of the UEFA Cup. Behind the unprecedented triumph of our football in Lisbon, he was observed by the unthinkable joy of our fans by the Newsweek correspondent.

In the middle of the first half of the final match for the UEFA Cup, the English judge Graham Polle, according to the unanimous opinion of the 2000 CSKA fans, present at the Jose Alvalada stadium, became increasingly whistling in favor of Sporting. After the particularly unfair penalty in our direction, the “horses” began to chant: “The judge - P ... Ras!”, And to this - possibly not entirely true from the point of view of truth - the statement of non -traditional sexual orientation of the arbitrator in some frantic impulse was also joined by the Newsweek observer. The police and the “stewards”, who watched the order in the aisles between the sectors, just in case, moved closer. The tension subsided after one of our fans, responding to a mobile phone call, turned towards the upper rows and renounced joyfully: “Mom calls. She watches football on TV and asks us to scream quieter, otherwise they can hear everything in Moscow, every word. ” What was next is known. The judge could no longer spoil anything entered into the courage, and their faithful fans in the second half shouted other words - “We arrived to win!” - On the motive of the Beatle "yellow submarine" and, of course, "the Red Army of everyone is stronger!"

How did we get sick that evening! What a woeful sigh has rustled in the sector, what puzzled and offended glances were exchanged by fans when Rozheriu hit the “nine” in the unfortunate 29th minute. A minute later in our ranks he was already gaining strength and the famous cry “Armenians of Moscow!”, And even the superior forces of the “enemy”, the fans of the “white-green”, could not be stronger. shout. Then the Russian flag crawled up the stands (25 by 10 m), and the Portuguese, you want, you didn’t want to stretch the huge panel with us. This evening they happened to do this three more times - in honor of Berezutsky, Zhirkov and Wagner Love. These three were considered to be the “horses” by players with a capital letter, and after that, the most important in the history of Russian football, a kind of “hat-trick” of the army, became idols, perhaps, all our fans, and not just fans of CSKA. After each of these heads, the “horses” screamed something unimaginable, jumped up almost a meter, rushed into each other's arms, whistled into the red-blue pipe. At the end of the match, when it became clear that our victory would not be missed, the Portuguese, we must pay tribute to them, they themselves offered to stretch the flag over the stadium again and congratulated the Russian fans: “Songratulations!”. Those sympathetically nodded their heads and immediately started “Wearethechampions!”, As well as a well -known and, perhaps, not very appropriate ditties today - “Torpedo” and “Spartak” - we will win just like that! ”. In short, a complete idyll and no excesses.

Meanwhile, the invasion of army fans Lisbon was preparing in earnest. The signs of Cskaparking and Cskastadium were hung throughout the city so that ours would not be lost. A triple cordon in front of the stadium, 600 policemen from the elite metropolitan detachment plus 300 “stewards”, and even agents in civilian clothes, which, as they say, were introduced into the ranks of the fans. The police were also armed with alcumometers: 1.2 ppm in the blood - and you will be asked from the stadium. However, it seems that they did not use the instruments: our guys were under a good degree after the local port and Russian vodka, but they behaved quite decent, almost brotherly with Portuguese fans and offered to sink from flasks, but the fans of Sporting politely refused, preferring the beer bought in the stadium.

At about ten in the evening, when the 46,000 Portuguese fans looked at the field, unable to understand what happened, we, 2000 fans of CSKA and sympathetic, shouted, waved flags, hugged and again and again took the treasured flasks again. And they told each other their stories, happily ending here in the stadium.

Diana and Marina were abandoned to their fate friends, real fans who invited the girls “not to hang under their feet” and go shopping until the match, while they drink beer and other drinks in restaurants at Rossio Square, where they will swim in fountains at night after victory. The satellites never showed up until the evening, and then Diana and Marina decided to get to the stadium and buy tickets with hands. The speculators declared € 500 for two tickets, but the Russian girl knows how to bargain like no other girl in the world, so in the end they managed to knock down the price and get two tickets for $ 500. “It was worth it! - Diana laughs, waving the Russian flag after the match and kissing with the fans unfamiliar before the match, which now, at the moment of the celebration, are relatives (the observer of Newsweek was no exception). The girls borrowed the pipe and flag at the neighbors, bloody sinks on the flag, but these are not traces of a showdown with the sporting fans: the guys decided to swim in the port during the day, and they had a battalion on stones properly.

To go to Lisbon, Lev Meshcheryin, a supplier from Moscow, sold his car. “Of course, my“ 99th ”is already an old woman, she is 13 years old, but they still gave me a half bucks for her - in exchange for a power of attorney.” We are talking with Meshcheryn before the start of the game, and he still does not know if he will smile at the luck, whether he had done the right thing by selling the car for this finals. However, he has no doubt about this. “I know for sure that in two or three years CSKA will have a lot of such finals, but I was in the first, you know!” In his 35 years, Lev struck all the cities where CSKA played on the road: his conscious fan experience for about 20 years. “That's just Tbilisi and Lanchuti I do not have enough for complete happiness. So if ours get in the cups for the Tbilisi Dynamo, I’ll go to Georgia. ” The most serious away fights occurred in the "horses" with Kyiv fans and ... Vilnius. “In Vilnius, of course, we climbed into the wolf ourselves,” Meshcheryin recalls with some sadness in his eyes. - Quiet Lithuanians have to have - this must be able to! ”

Fights between fans are common. Sergei and Daniil are veterans, they are no longer considered the fighters among the young “horses” overgrown, but both of the bank’s steppe employees from 9.00 to 18.00, with pleasure, still take part in clarifying relations between the warring fans. “For all the external cruelty of the gatherings,” says Sergey, “no one kills anyone, does not cripple. You just need to let the steam, but for this there is nothing better than a good fight. No wonder in Russia there have been fist fights for centuries. ” Moscow students Sasha and Andrei, who overslept their reverse charter, vied with vying, told me how cool they fought in mid -May with “meat” (a dismissive nickname of the fans of “Spartak”) on the way to a cup match with Saturn in Ramensky. “They specially guarded us about half a way, then broke into the car, and we began to mutate each other, and so - two stops. It ended as usual: they said “thank you for the fight” and came out in front of Ramensky. ”

Sasha is lamented that it was not possible to carry a real fire (type of rocket launcher) to Lisbon. “We pulled out all the metal parts out of it - a plug, an exhaust ring - to pass control at the airport, but only the package broke, and we sowed it somewhere. And those fires that the Portugues were thrown is cheap, in Moscow there are 50 rubles each. ”

“Horses” pierced Lisbon, bathed in almost all capital fountains and Now who was scattered where - in addition to Moscow, triumphant fans returned to Leipzig and Tel Aviv, London and Madrid. We sat at the airport restaurant with Sasha and Andrei, a little later Alexey, Kruyier of one of the Moscow casinos, also late at the night charter, joined us, because he was taken to the hospital, although he "just drank a little more." Waiting for a landing on Zurich, we recalled two great days, and someone (it seems, Sasha) joked: “Whoever recently said that we won’t catch up with Portugal and after 30 years! So, know - they have already been overtaken. " For some reason, I remembered the legendary Masha, the most famous army fan of the 60-70s, who seemed to have never looked at the field, preferring to walk around the rows and tell all sorts of stories “from the locker room”. Many considered it crazy, duplicated and treated its appearance on the podium as entertainment. It is a pity that she did not live to the triumph of her team.

None of my interlocutors about Masha, of course, had heard.

| | | --- | | Night of Miracles | | The army team, of course, began to celebrate the victory right on the field. After the award ceremony, the fun moved to the locker room, then to continue on the bus, on the way to the airport. The road from the stadium to the air terminal building took half as much time from the team than the subsequent transfer to the plane. CSKA was in no hurry. Valeria Gazzaev was watered by the fact that there was from a victorious shower from champagne in a locker room at Jose Alvalada. The triumphant coach, dodging his wards, laughed louder than anyone-not to be angry with the boys, most of whom barely exceeded 20. Finally, under the applause of those present, CSKA began to go on the plane. Following the coaches and players, the staff carried a 15-kilogram cup in a large wooden box on the ramp. The crew welcomed the winners ahead of time in the Music in store: in places the team sat down to the sounds of "Victory Day". Unrestrained fun was enough for a couple of hours. Then, in the second salon, where the players flew, all the defenders who withstood the colossal 90-minute load-Ignashevich, the Berezutsky brothers, Odia-defeated hiking bedrooms. The rest were not up to bedtime: endless autographs, bikes, hugs. Akinfeev without a shadow of fatigue on his face and with a medal on his neck walked past Zhirkov, looking at the crane of a DVD player to the mind of Turman in her last film. The news is transmitted to each other by the cabin. Fans in Moscow stopped moving to Tverskaya, pouring after the match to the main street of the capital. Someone says: "On Sunday, play with Spartak-there may not be enough emotions." Immediately heard in response: "Do you know that even before the final 50,000 tickets were sold to Luzhniki?" Everyone is slightly numb. The night of miracles, what to say. Magic night. Ilya Kazakov, RTR-Sport TV channel, especially for Newsweek | |