There You Are Watching A Football Match,

when all of a sudden your attention is diverted,

what on earth is happening in the video above? as Slovakian amateur football club TJ Tatran Cierny Balog plays a home football game, yes unbelievably a steam train chugs past the grandstand as the game is in progress! Cierny Balog, a small Slovakian town of about 5,100 people, has become somewhat of a tourist spot in the last seven years or so, and it was all thanks to its football stadium, the Čiernohronska Railway goes right through Cierny Balog stadium, the steam-powered tourist train passes through it all summer long! Cierny Balog stadium was built sometime during the 1980s, the track unused, but tings changed in the early 1990s, when a group of Slovakian enthusiasts started repairing the train tracks. In 1992, it was officially reopened as a heritage railway for tourists, during the summer, tourists wanting to admire the beauty of the Lower Tatras mountains from aboard a train can buy tickets for a vintage steam engine-powered train that runs on a 17-km-long line between Chvatimech and Vydrovo. Passing through the Cierny Balog stadium is one of the highlights of the trip, apparently the players try to ignore the train and its powerful whistling signal, while in the grandstand, some spectators wave to the train, while others try to keep their focus on the game, this is the only live football match I would ever go to, and I would be sitting on the train!