Colombian party in a lonely London

It’s been a few years since football went a little crazy and an example of that was experienced yesterday at London Olympic Stadiumnow known as London Stadium, in the meeting between Spain and Colombia. The world’s game is upside down. A friendly organized by a sponsor of the RFEF, played in a neutral territory, more than 1,500 kilometers from Madrid.

However, in the stands, Colombian yellow dominates through soil erosion. Like Metropolitan Roberto Meléndez of Barranquilla, where the Colombian national team usually plays at home. And in London the Spanish colony is quite a bit more. 180,000 for the 160,000 Colombians living in the English capital, who yesterday were shocked by the announcement of the disease Kate Middleton Princess of Wales, who announced that she is undergoing chemotherapy to beat cancer. A statement that saddened the English capital and clearly marked Friday. Despite this, the northeast of the city is the oasis in the city, which lives with solemnity and respects all that surrounds its monarchy.

The ‘Football Festival’, as the match between La Roja and the South American team was christened by the organization, was celebrated in the purest Latin style. It was in the Olympic park three hours before the crash. The party goes beyond the stands, in the prologue of the match or at halftime, where a DJ is in charge of playing the current Latin hits that enliven the cold London night.

In a different context, the uniforms are also surreal. Of yellow, the color of Colombiajuice Spain, which also served as local. And the coffee growers, in black, a complicated color for the team of a tropical country, which they started wearing about two years ago. They assume that this change is due to marketing reasons: yesterday De la Fuente’s team debuted the second kit they will wear in the Euro Cup and they saved the red, for the gala, for the match at the Santiago Bernabéu against Brazil, next Tuesday.