Some video

Here's some of my video of the end of the game. People stuck around and celebrated way longer than we were interested int staying. Well, that's probably because they're Italian.

I'm A Keeper

The Italian Keeper thanking his fans. This is my digital zoom pushed to its limit. Not so great. 

Italy 3 Ukraine 0

I tried to get more shots of the field, but people would stop waiving there giant flags. 

Nathan Funny Face 6

Waiting in the beer line at half time. More specifically the budweiser line (so sad). If you don't think the look on Nathan's face is weird enough check out the dude over his shoulder; truly disturbing. 

I'd like to thank all the little people.

 

The Nosebleed Section

Well the view of the field wasn't the best in the stadium (although it was till pretty good), but the fiew of Hamburg from our seats couldn't be beat 

The Game Begins

I wonder why the Ukrainians don't hug each other like the Italians do, it seems to work.

 

 

The Stadium

And finally we are at the stadium waiting for the Ukraine V. Italy to begin. We're a bit early so The stadium is fairly empty in this picture, also you can still see some sunlight on the field, which by the time the game started wasn't the case. 

Germany Argentina

No matter what you do you can't quite capture the energy of being in the crowd but here and here are links to a short film of the crowd at the Germany Argentina Game.

Und Zie Polizei..

to control the hooligans.

Game Day

Our plan on game day after checking into the hotel etc., was to go watch the Germany Argentina game at a public viewing, and then head over to the stadium to whatch the game we had tickets for: Ukraine Vs. Italy. Here's a bunch of German Hooligans on the way to the public viewing.


 

Carat Hotel

The day of the game we had to check out of the hostel and move to this four star hotel, because we hadn't quite reserved the hostel in time and Hamburg was packed. Oh well, it was a little more expensive, but very soft bedded and quiet. Plus having a non comunal bathroom is always nice.
 

My Legs are Huge!

Nathan admiring his huge legs. We are getting ready to pick up Christine and Tarah at train station. 

Nathan Funny Face 5

The girls were supposed to come in this night and we got a room with 4 beds in it at "Instant Sleep", but some sort of terrible road catastrophie in London made them miss there flight, so we ended up sharing this room with a couple of American Kids. Hence yet another funny face from Nathan. 

Nathan Funny Face 4

Mine Nogen

Yes I bumped Mine Nogen. I'd like to say that hooligans where involved but... 

Beach Bar

One of the many clubs within 50 feet of our Hostel in Sternschanze was a pretend beach with white sand tiki tourches and large cargo containers which were converted to bars. I got a little camera happy after downing a few .51l Weisbiers.

 

Fan Fest

Later that day, Biancha, Nathan and I went to the "FIFA FanFest" which was emptee since the break before the quarter finals had just started. They did have some nostalgic futbol video playing on this big screen which is used for public showings of the events not in Hamburg. In contrast it seemed quite imposible to make it to this screen on the day of the German/Argintina match since we weren't 2 hours early.

 

The Waterfront

So Biancha an old PLU aquaintance came up to show us around the City a bit and we went to check out the city tours. Upon deciding that they were lame we wandered down to the water, and some ice cream and lime filled alcoholic drinks. This is right before that.