Deception, the illusion truncates of a town

In Turkey, most of the population it never lived in the streets and like the semifinal with Brazil; the feeling of pain by the defeat took step to him to the pride by high productivity of the set directed by Senol Günes

ANKARA (EFE). - Hours before the beginning of match with Brazil, all Turkey was covered quickly with red flags; her people said and trusted achieving a success on the set of Scolari that opened the doors to him of the end of the World-wide one.

The celebration was prepared. The state company of textiles Sumer Holding had free distributed between the population tens of thousand of flags in the main seats and streets of the country, so that it finished dyeing itself of red each corner in case of a victory.

, Turkish prime minister, Bulent Eceveit, had even ordered that the day was declared national celebration so that the town could see the encounter by television and authorized to the officials government not to attend the work on the following day.

Finally, the goal of Ronaldo and the defeat by 1 to 0 untied to a sea of tears and a deep silence, even knowing that to surpass to Brazil it was the most difficult company, almost chimerical.

The sadness was reflected with impotence faces and of heartbroken annoyance, weeping and several scenes of collective hysteria, own images of a fanatical town of the soccer like few, that several days ago lived carefree on its political problems and social and it rose the champion dream.

With the course of the hours, the feeling that was opened passage by on the frustration was the pride, after conscience was taken from which the set of Senol Günes, whose objective era to reach the end eighth, will finish located between the four better selections of the world.

In the epilogue of the day, many of the disappointed Turkish fans drowned their pains in a multitudinal concert in the seat of Taksim, in Istambul.

"I always thought that soccer was the opium that the government used to sleep the town. Now it is a species of killer pain. We underwent one serious social and economic crisis, but soccer left a species us of fleeting happiness that I believe that it is good ", explained Unsal Oskay, university professor of Sociology.

Until the serious and severe Turkish president, Ahmet Nezdet Sezer, changed of semblante and announced that it would travel to Japan if Turkey happened to the end. But it could not be.