The bars were jam-packed. A crowd of excited people thronged the streets. Windows were lit up green with the outlines of men tussling on the pitch seeping through drawn curtains. Even the most indifferent and dispassionate were swept up in the fervour as Dnipro battled for the hopes of Ukraine on the pitch in Warsaw. The team may have lost last night's Europa League final to Sevilla, but it won a much more important victory: the hearts and minds of its country.
International Business Times: Dnipro may have lost the match but they united a nation
Sevilla's Argentinian midfielder Ever Banega (2ndR) vies with Dnipro's Brazilian midfielder Leo Matos during the UEFA Europa League final football match between FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Sevilla FC at the Narodowy stadium in Warsaw, Poland on May 27, 2015.
