AS Roma Vs. Napoli

One thing on my list of to do's while in Europe was go to a Soccer match. And on our second day in Rome, we asked around and found some tickets for AS Roma vs Napoli. Apparently, this is a huuge rivalry, and we were warned the games could be dangerous for opposing fans. So, immediately we bought Roma jerseys and did our best to fit in with the raucous crowd. 

Here is a link for a video I took of the Roma fans before the game singing along to what seemed to be their fight song. It was great how loud everyone was singing along to it. They have these flags that our like 10' by 10' and they wave them for literally the entire 90 minute game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN2PnPQbn-E

Roma scored about 20 minutes in and the place went nuts. There were very few Napoli fans there at the beginning

 of the game, less than 1000, but at the half they all came in at once and all of a sudden their section, that is quarantined off by police was filled and they were going crazy. Napoli scored in the second half to tie the game, when they scored the Napoli fans starting lighting off flares and the whole stadium filled up with smoke. They then started throwing the flares at the police that were guarding their section and they were shooting off a cannon they had in the parking lot. Here is a link to the video of after Napoli scored.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXHJhN-hoLg

This is the section of Napoli fans during the first half. Note the lines of cops in the yellow vests blocking their section off.

This is Napolis fans during the second half when they started getting rowdy.

The game ended in a 1-1 tie, they need to do some kind of overtime with soccer because ties are the worst. The Roma fans were less than pleased about the outcome as they are supposed to be the better team. After the game we made our way back to the hotel, but before that we stopped in a piazza (square) and had a drink and watched this cool brass band.