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By the end of the 2-0 win over Manchester United, at least 18 people were reported arrested, and 18 others were issued citations, but at Stadio Olimpico, thousands of the British team’s supporters filed out, disappointed but generally calm.
Police helicopters checked potential trouble spots among the bunches of 30,000 English and 20,000 Spanish fans who poured into the Italian capital for the prestigious final. The run-up to the game had two stabbings in Rome and its suburbs, one of them a young American man who was mistaken for a British fan.
More than an hour after the final, Rome was largely calm as a massive police presence followed the throngs of fans moving through the city. Things were so calm, Rome’s mayor was heading to police headquarters to congratulate officers for a job well done.
Spoofing Anita Ekberg’s seductive romp in the Trevi Fountain in the Federico Fellini film “La Dolce Vita,” dozens of Barca backers splashed, fully clothed, in the waters glistening under lights in a stifling mugginess.
In another famed square, the medieval Campo de’ Fiori, Spanish fans sent up a raucous chorus of “Ole, ole!” Some wore wigs with bright red hair and horns.
“Es la mejor, es la mejor! (It’s the best!),” one woman shrieked over and over as some danced atop cafe tables lining the square.
The exultation contrasted with some bloodshed leading up to the match.
A United fan was stabbed in the thigh in the early hours of Wednesday, and 18 people, including United and Barcelona supporters, were arrested by police in separate incidents before and during the final. Police did not identify the fan.
The fan told investigators that four attackers who spoke Spanish attacked him near his hotel in the Vatican area. He was discharged from the hospital on Wednesday afternoon.
While many fans peacefully flooded the cobblestone streets of Rome — many openly ignoring an alcohol ban imposed by authorities — scattered episodes of violence were reported in and outside the Italian capital.
Separately, two United fans were arrested for assaulting bystanders and police in Campo de’ Fiori. Police said the men, aged 19 and 45 but not identified, were drunk despite a ban on alcohol sales in areas including the city center and near the stadium.
“They will watch the match from a TV inside the Regina Coeli prison,” said a police statement.
ANSA news agency said two United fans were arrested for trying to pay at the posh Cafe de Paris with counterfeit money. During the game, police in the stadium arrested an Italian man who was trying to steal a fan’s camera, Italian media reported.
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Three Barcelona fans were arrested after a police search of their car turned up clubs and a javelin, police said. The three were traveling from Civitavecchia, a port near Rome where hundreds of Spanish fans had arrived by ship.
In Ostia, a coastal suburb of Rome, four Italians were arrested after attacking an American, apparently mistaking the 23-year-old for a United supporter. The U.S. citizen was beaten up and stabbed in his thigh and backside, police said.
Authorities had been monitoring hardcore fans of Rome’s local teams amid concerns that they might seek to ambush visiting supporters. AS Roma fans, especially, were kept under close watch because they clashed with United supporters in Rome in 2007.
Earlier in the day, hundreds of fans flocked to Pope Benedict XVI’s weekly audience at the Vatican, waving their flags and scarves before the pontiff. The match referee, Massimo Busacca of Switzerland, greeted the pope.
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