Kaunas also has funiculars. Two of them. The Žaliakalnis and Aleksotas cars have long become not so much public transport for city visitors, but mechanical memory boxes of Kaunas: they slowly pull not only passengers up the hill, but also the interwar period, its elegance, and proud memory that it was once the temporary capital.
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The Zagreb funicular is shorter. Kaunas’ – perhaps a bit more sentimental. But the mechanism of both is the same: to go up, someone has to pull you.
On Tuesday evening, no one will offer any rope to “Kauno Žalgiris.”
The Lithuanian champions will have to cling to a higher level of European football themselves – at Maksimir Stadium, against Zagreb’s “Dinamo,” a club that has long stopped climbing the hill in Croatian football. It is already settled at the very top and mostly just watches how others push for the remaining places below.
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Kaunas came to Zagreb not as a guest whose trip the local press would dedicate special supplements to. Here it is awaited roughly like a big hotel awaits a one-night passenger arriving late at night: the room is ready, the key is placed, but the attendant on duty at arrival won’t even lift his eyes from the phone.
Croatian Eduard Slavoljub Penkala created the world’s first mechanical pencil. With it, Zagreb has almost already written “Dinamo” into the next UEFA Champions League qualifying round.
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The worst news for the hosts would be if someone from Kaunas brought an eraser…
Grown out of conflict
Zagreb was not a single city for a long time.
