Kiev May 26 became the capital of records. A unique event in the history of the Champions League - the same team won the third time in the most prestigious European competition. In an incredible fight, Spanish Real Madrid proved that now he has really the strongest players of the continent, according to the TSN. Tyzhden.
Now the team is estimated at 962.5 million euros, and the British Liverpool is estimated at 548.5 million euros. At the same time, the main challenge for Kiev was to take this football holiday with dignity, because only now it becomes obvious how Ukraine attacked the information field.
That Kiev hotels and really raised prices higher than the previous host cities of the finals - the truth. And that not once Borispol airport found a place for unscheduled charters - also. Information about the fact that foreigners were passing in tickets because of high prices in Kiev denied the organizing committee of the Champions League final. The clubs just laughed at these fakes, said the commissioner for the organization of the finals Andrei Miroshnichenko.
No less indicative was the situation with the evaluation of Kiev for the organization of the finals. A lot of news sites, including Ukrainian ones, have been informed that the UEFA president Alexander Cheferin criticized the capital authorities that they did not provide the fans with a decent overnight stay at low prices. Attentive readers have noticed: not one interview of Cheferin was. The New York Times cited the Italian La Stampa, where the article appeared before the finals. Subsequently, the President of UEFA thanked the Ukrainians for their hospitality. And, according to the press service of the President of Ukraine, said that UEFA has made the right decision: to hold the final in Kiev.
A bitter sourish for all Britons and Spaniards - a scandal with sky-high prices for capital hotels. Individual numbers in this period from 500 hryvnia increased to 200 thousand hryvnia per day.
The Kievite Miroslav Ganishchak, who lives in Obolon, has posted an ad on the Internet that will suit a comfortable night's lodging for foreign guests. According to his idea, 300 hryvnia - the average price for fans. "Especially when I found out about these insane prices in Kiev - with my prices the stavochka played 100%. I even honestly do not remember the prices. I know that I have a minimalk that I can put. I put - who wanted to live on exotic Obolon - please, "- he said.
"When I was going to Kiev and looked at the price of the hotel, I thought: maybe 10-20 pounds per night. But when I saw that 100, 200, 500, 1000 - this is, perhaps, somewhat abnormal, "- said the 29-year-old Liverpool Chris Jones, who lives in Obolon.
In Kiev, a British fan arrived on his own car. He laughingly showed how, on the way from Lviv, he lost the hood on the wheel: "I was in a really deep pit. I was shocked a little. I look in the mirror, and the cap from the wheel rolled along the road ".
The Briton was surprised that, it turns out, can go for free on the subway. This allows the Briton a ticket to a football match. True, the starting price of 160 euros to him, acquired from the "second hand", cost more than a thousand.
Later it became known - the Spaniards again champions. For Chris's liverpulz, this is, of course, sadness, even tragedy. However, he explains - football for him as a religion. And such matches are not only an experience, but also something new. Somehow a new culture: where incredible vareniki and colorful embroideries, there are pits on the roads where sky-high prices for hotels, but the hospitable hosts of the panel "Khrushchev".
Andrei Orlyak.