Eugene Music - about the atmosphere in Rome before the match between Roma and the Miner.

At the airport Fiumicino Shakhtar was already expecting several fans of Roma. Though there were not enough of them, the Romans demonstrated amazing voices, shouting several times about something about Rom.

On arrival at the hotel, we with Sergey Shevchenko, who worked as an interpreter in situations where there was not enough English, went to a snack in a nearby cafe. And immediately there met three fans of the "wolves" who discussed Roma and Lazio. One of them, Simone, said that the match will not work - the price of 80 euros is too much for him. He thinks Shakhtar is a good team, but Roma is stronger and it will be in the quarter-finals. By the way, he considers the most dangerous player of Donetsk to be not one of the Brazilians, but Facundo Ferreira.

The next point of our walk was the Vatican. It is only a kilometer or two from the hotel, but the cobwebbing of streets and the lack of Internet forced to ask time after time for the road with local residents. One of these "residents" was a fan of Shakhtar Alexander, who himself came to the match with his wife from Moscow.

It was necessary to hear that the ratio of fans of Roma and Lazio in Rome is about 3 to 1. This proportion was confirmed in practice, as we were further met by the souvenir seller who is in favor of Lazio. On the request to make a forecast, who will pass further - Shakhtar or Roma, he did not answer in the style of "Forward, Shakhtar! All Italy today holds his fists for Shakhtar!", And assured that Lazio will win Dynamo Kyiv. That's really really one team in a person.

The Vatican may be the capital of the religious world (Catholic, at least), but football is not alien to it: just next to a special van and six promoters sell tickets for the match. By the way, the cost starts from 40 euros (and up to 115), but Simone, whom we met earlier, apparently thinks that it's not the tsar's business to sit on the corner stands.

Met in the same guy in the form of Roma for the match, too, will not work - he works. Among the players of the Ukrainian team he is known Tyson, Marlos and "captain Dario Srna".

Not only the usual fans, but also the journalist Andrea Fagnano interviewed by me singled out the Brazilian attack of Shakhtar, but on the request to name at least one of the Ukrainian defenders, answered that this is a problem line for the "miners".

And after the Shakhtar press conference, one of the journalists approached me, who in Russian asked about the injured "miners". It was amazing to hear Russian from a journalist (and here in the streets of Rome it is full - even the result of fortune telling on Tarot cards is promised in Russian to provide), but the solution turned out to be prosaic. This is an Azerbaijani journalist who works in the local publication Il Romanista.

Evening walk along the banks of the Tiber brought a meeting with ... it is not known whether they were fans of Roma, but in any case - the company obviously drunk young people who roamed with an alien doll in the form of Totti. I wanted to take pictures of them, and they came to real delight, handed me a doll and asked me to take a picture with them.

These guys are aching for Roma, they do not get sick - they did not ask about this anymore.. They were on their wave this evening, and they hardly wanted to switch to football. There is no doubt that they will watch the match - we hope that Roma will not give them such a good mood.

Eugene Music, Football. ua Author: Евгений Music.