TURKU, Finland -- It is Monday afternoon and something, at last, is afoot. There's a clamour in the lobby and, quickly, clarifying turns into yells and applause.
Those in the Hamburger Bors hotel bar move en masse; everybody thinks they know what has happened but, until they see for sure, they dare not hope too much. And then, once the scene has opened up, everyone piles in. There are embraces, hands are clasped and squeezed hard and at least a few tears.
"I went outside and cried," Kosovo goalkeeper Samir Ujkani will say later. "All of the relief just came out of me.