On the 3rd of May with the father of Julia we went to see a football first leage (the second after Premier Liga). The match was not in Tsentralni Stadion because of pereserving the grass for the cup final between Dinamo Moscow and Rubin Kazan on 9th. So it was in the old stadion near the factory Uralmash, you won't guess what the name of the stadium is: Uralmash. And the home team is not called Ural Ekaterinburg, but formerly: Uralmash. The stadium is not so huge, the tribune is made of ground, and asphalt on it. There are no toilets, 3 toitoi was put there for the 1-2000 spectators, so in the break the other side of the tribune (the other slope of the hill) was venue for ... So the guest team was "Sibir" from Novosibirsk, we arrived 15 minutes late due to huge traffic jam on Kosmonautov Road (which is every day from 8 to 8, so we could expect it ...). The score was 0-0 and based on the next 30 minutes i can imagine how many interesting events we missed in the first 15 ... not so many. The conditions were good, the grass was perfect, there was a big display, and 50-70 Ural fans made good atmosphere in the cold with drums and singing. Until they had some argue with police (some pyrotechnics-related argue) and they had to leave the stadium, 3-4 of them not directly home but via police station with a police-Kamaz.
The second half was much better, teams started to aim to score a goal, and after a 2-on-1 situation played well. After the goal Ural took control, and lead many attacks but without real scoring chances. Until the 80th minute, when an Armenian guy came in (the crowd was very happy with his arrival). He energized Ural, made 3-4 dangerous attacks and 5 minutes from time he scored a very lucky goal. Ural still played offensively, and the Amrenian had more dangerous shots and solutions. The usual question rises: Why did he play in the first 80 minutes ...
The game ended after a long extra time (maybe 5 minutes), the ticket price was 100 roubles for each goal. Getting home was not easy, i first wanted to take tram #8 but it went to garage and conductor said it's the last one (at 21:30...). Then i took marshrutka #060 to ZhBI district, but i took it at the final station which is 10minutes walk from Uralmash stadium. 15 minutes of ride what do i see: we pass by the final station again ... 5more minutes later: station: Uralmash stadium. So i played to fool with myself as i only knew where the end of 060 is. From ZhBI i ran home in 15 minutes.
Yesterday with Julia we went to Spring Festival at the uni, there was festival of language theaters. We watched two performances, the first was by uni of Chelyabinsk, play was "Strange Mrs Savage", i liked it very much although in the second performance, which was by people from this uni, the language knowledge seemed to be better. But the second performance was chaotic, and there was not really a story in it. So i liked the Chelyabinsk one better, and i recommend the play to everybody.
Today with Julia we were cooking Pirog, it was really cool, and i finish writing the blog and go to eat the result ... next post in 2-3 days!
