Rijeka player: I’m in a big problem. The woman does not know what I promised to Jankovic if she scores naked
River She didn’t sleep tonight. She celebrated the second championship title with style, among thousands of fans on Korzo, where they had a festive welcome and proudly raised the cup in front of the exasperated mass.
« This is not as smooth when the Pope came, » the program manager said Josip Krmpoticand that was only an introduction to the whole festival in which the Radomir Djalovic team celebrated a historic day, a triumph in one of the most exciting seasons of the HNL.
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Rijeka players arrived at Korzo
An hour lasted the program on stage, some players gave themselves a vent and celebrated their torches in their hands themselves, and firefighters extinguished small fires every now and then. Fortunately, everything endured. After all the players, President Damir Miskovic and his wife Snjezana and daughters Mateom and Anna stood in front of the fans, after a cup of champagne from Gorski Kotar after Kubanka on Rujevica, who arrived at the Cuber.
The only moment in which the whistles briefly interrupted the universal madness was to the mayor’s leadership Marko Filipovic who did not address the gathered, but donated Miskovic a photo of the conceptual design of the renovated Kantrida stadium.
HNK Rijeka players with fans on Korzo celebrated the winning of the Croatian Championship |
– I am thirteen at the club, that I still have this to experience this, so I can retire. I will welcome her or the same – said Miskovic, and after the official part of the program, the players stayed on stage for more than half an hour and alternated around the trophies with teammates, wives and girls, family members and fans.
One of those who did not have a big minute in the hike to the title but scored a very valuable goal to win over Varaždin 1-0 in the 90th minute in mid-April, Luka Menalo. He admitted:
– I’m in a big problem. I promised Niki Jankovic Two days ago, if he scored a naked, that no one would be called nobody. I need a woman to be born in two months. So now I have to explain it to her, she doesn’t know it yet. And this is my biggest life problem right now!
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Everything is ready for the great festival of Rijeka: the song is already echoing with Korzo, the players are coming soon
Niko Menalo will fit into the project of increasing the birth rate, to which the fans also invited Miskovic. A real Baby Boom Rijeka boom could happen in early spring next year.
– Amazing year, it was better for anticipation than anything. You play matches like this maybe a couple of times in your life. I don’t remember ever in my career in my last round something was decided. This is something phenomenal, for what you do and wait all your life. I was thinking before the game about all the scripties, but none were not to win – Menalo added, a player who played for the young Dinamo’s young team in the first part of the season, and then got a call he couldn’t refuse:
– If someone had told me in September, when I was without a club, that I would celebrate the title of Croatian champion now, that’s something incredible. Thank you to all the people from the club for receiving me and thank you to the fans, this is something wonderful. I hope to experience this again. In the river jersey, of course.
HNK Rijeka players, Croatian champions, medals were presented |
Ante Majstorovic underlined how important that cheerful wind in the back was. Because the river was struggling to find the winning form almost all spring, but it was right when needed.
– More than 2000 fans came to training yesterday, the atmosphere was top notch. And today when we went out for warming, it was almost a full stadium. When such an atmosphere is, you can hardly lose. They told me what it was in 2017, I knew it would be great, but I couldn’t imagine it would be this way.
The great thing was done by Rijeka by inviting players who were previously members of the first team like Matija Frigan, Veldin Hodja and Ivan SmolčićCaptain until departure to Como.
– The feeling is amazing, I am not yet aware that it has come to an end as we imagined, we deserved it. Among the few who were here in 2017 and I felt it. The last time I was choking here in smoke, among the fans, this time I’m up, thank God. The atmosphere is really great, you’ve been working for something like this all your life. Thank you guys for the second half -season for allowing me to do this, I’m glad I was a part of this team and that I could celebrate with them. I sat in my place in the locker room. Bruno Goda told me just as if I had never left. Okay, it was less than four months ago, everything is still Frisco – said Smolcic, who was waiting for a medal:
HNK Rijeka players, Croatian champions, raised their cup |
– I was a little embarrassing because I was there, but there are a lot of people who deserved. Thanks to President Miskovic, he said I came to receive the medal. It’s much easier to play, today you are just thinking of doing it right, a great nervousness. I went into the locker room before the game, they were much more relaxed than I did.
All this was just an introduction to what Rujevica is waiting for Thursday, when Slaven will again be an obstacle to the trophy, this time Rabuzin’s sun, in an attempt to repeat the double crown of 2017. But the club fans from Kvarner would not even fall so hard. They celebrated this cup as if there was no tomorrow. And let them deserve.
