Kyiv residents were quietly going about their business and many seemed not much interested in the biggest sports event seen in their country in decades: the Euro 2012 final between Spain and Italy on Sunday, according to Digibet.info.
“A few more customers than normal, a few more foreigners, but in this kind of beautiful weather any Kievite punts the city if he possibly can,” said Nataliya Drach, a saleswoman at Harchuvan’ya, a family-owned grocery store on a Kiev main streets.
“I won’t watch the game, but my husband might,” she said. “Once our team (Ukraine) and the Russians left the competition, we really don’t have any one to cheer for.”
Kyiv’s three kilometres long fan zone, where an estimated half a million plus fans in yellow and blue had gathered to cheer their side on in a June 19 defeat to England, was almost deserted on Saturday afternoon, reads Digibet.info report.
Young men dressed in costumes of Disney movie characters sat on park benches under a bright sun, waiting for someone to walk by and ask for a photo snap with them.
