I have mentioned before that Serbs LOVE to party and celebrate just about anything. I mean, they celebrate the New Year twice in a span of 2 weeks. Once for the traditional calendar year on January 1st and again for the Orthodox New Year on January 13th. If it can be celebrated, the Serbs find a way to celebrate it.
Things got pretty rowdy after our victory on Sunday. At night we visited Veljko’s grave before heading through town with a slew of cars honking, yelling, waving our WB flag, singing, chanting, and showing off the trophy in parade-type style. The people throughout the city didn’t seem to mind, in fact the ones sitting at cafe’s probably ordered another drink on our account.
We made our usual stop at Balkan. On hand was an accordian player which promoted singing the entire time by the Serbs. I learned the traditional Serbian dance as we drank champagne out of the championship trophy and chanted some more inbetween songs. Then 60 + people took to the streets, stopping traffic on one side of the road for close to a half-mile. Songs and chants were well-recieved as random Serbs shouted with us, honked, flashed their lights, and nearly hit us while manuerving around the group.
We reached the end of the main street and came to a main 4-way stop near the big park in the city. We finished off our shenanagins with our traditional post-game circle as Alf lead us through the cheer and breakdown, amidst 6 honking cars unable to turn left.
Some of the pictures I woke up with:
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- Alf waving the flag out of China’s car as we lead the caravan around town
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- Our caravan was about 7 deep
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- Tomic and Filip lighting something crazy…
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- …that smelt terrible when it hit us full-force
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- We all packed into the backroom of Balkan for one last post-game celebration
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- Josip, Filip, and myself
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- Nina and Rasha/Rashard
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- Crazy glasses came out for the celebration
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- These 2 gyspy kids came to celebrate the WB victory
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- Zmija got hit in the face by one of our teammates during the game, causing those red marks on his nose
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- Mike and his girlfriend enjoying the company of the trophy
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- Doc saved my life nearly every game, what a guy
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- O-line pride; Djole and Mike
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- Igor showing off some of his style
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- This was more than necessary
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- Mike and girlfriend decided I better join in a picture with them
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- My main man Ivan
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- Stoping traffic and wandering through the main city streets
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- Nearing the 4-way stop where we ultimately stopped traffic in all directions
