Photo Daily | January 7 | Italy 2-0 Germany, World Cup 2006
By Tom Dunmore • Jan 7th, 2008 • Category: Photography • 4 responsesThis week’s photos will cover a tragically unexplored topic in the world of football: fans’ celebrations in cars. It seems there’s some primeval urge, after your team wins, to go out driving. Today, we see Italian fans celebrating their 2006 World Cup semi-final win over Germany in a very small car.
Photo credit: reportergimmi™ on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion photo pool.
Tom Dunmore is the editor of Pitch Invasion.
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I was actually in Rome on the night of the game, I’d literally never seen anything like it in my life. And then there was the day long celebrations after the final…
Our front windows have a view of one of central Milan’s principal intersections.
It was wild. The horns didn’t stop until well after 3 am.
We were living in Frankfurt for the 2002 World Cup, and were struck by how the city was multi-cultural enough for at least one car of people to drive around the central ring honking their horns after nearly every match. The Croatians actually started it, and the Turks and Italians upped the ante significantly. The Germans got so into it that they even turned out in numbers after the final, notwithstanding their defeat.
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My lasting and bitter regret from that night was that my camera battery died before I could photograph the flag-waving fan being pushed around the Colosseum in a wheelbarrow painted blue.