Wednesday, May 14, 2023Stadio Olimpico, RomeHome Dressing Room11:09 PM
The door closes behind the last official and the noise level climbs immediately while the trophy sits on a massage table at the center of the room, and Tolói reaches it first and lifts it with both hands before passing it to Koopmeiners who raises it once and passes it along, and the movement of the trophy around the room starts the celebration properly while music comes from somewhere near the back and champagne bottles arrive through the door carried by kit men.
Foam sprays across shirts and shoulders and boots while voices overlap each other in Italian and Dutch and English and none of it is intelligible because the noise is too thick, and De Roon gets his hands on the trophy and parades it through the tight space between the benches while players jump around him and grab at it and shout things that disappear into the general chaos.
