Latvian hockey was a big day on Friday. In the opening game of the World Championship, he won a historic victory over the hockey superpower of Canada at home. After this sensational success, many fans took to the streets of Riga to celebrate the victory.
The world hockey championship started in Riga on Friday. Also the first game of Latvia, and an unexpectedly successful result – the hockey superpower Canada was defeated, and its hockey players also failed to send the puck to the Latvian goal.
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Immediately after the victory, the first bands of fans can be seen on the streets to come out to celebrate the historic victory of Latvia. Going further, special scenes at the Arena Riga, where the victory was won. Here the supporters of the team gathered to thank the hockey players and hockey fans.
Adherence to the constraints of the assembly did as well as it did, but victory seemed to be more important. Arena Riga was not the only place where hockey fans who took to the streets wanted to celebrate their historical success.
Fans were found at the Canadian Embassy, where hockey fans continued to cultivate one of their best traditions – after an important and great victory, to leave flowers at the beaten national embassy. The proceedings were also monitored by the state and municipal police. In any case, we have a historic victory, a historic loss for Canada.
Flowers, a gift bag, beer lay at the embassy door. The Canadian Ambassador to Latvia Kevin Rex also came to see what was happening, who exchanged a few words with Latvian fans and congratulated them with the victory. For TV3 News, he explains the loss with the team’s fatigue after the flight, the longer playing of Latvian men together and the great performance of our goalkeeper Matiss Kivleniek. The ambassador emphasizes that now the only way for the Canadian team is up. But if anyone has to lose, then definitely Latvia in Latvia in the opening game of the tournament.
“People from the Hockey Federation and the Latvian national team told me that maybe it would be worthwhile to come to the embassy and pick flowers. I see this tradition for the first time, it’s very cool. Thanks for the flowers, the fans here are of course great. I know that this is a big day for the Latvian hockey team, and it is cool to be here, ”said the Canadian Ambassador /
A little further along Baznīcas Street TV3 Ziņas went to the hotel “Latvija”, where the participants of the championships stayed. Here, too, our fans gathered, chanted slogans, sang songs and praised each other. In general, the night in the streets of Riga, the jestra and Latvia’s sensational victory over the Canadian national team were celebrated.-
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