Three masked men speaking Serbian and brandishing assault weapons amBush the car.
Milica Delevic, who is in charge of the Serbian government's EU integration office is elated but realistic about the future.
The executive director of the Belgrade-based Balkan Trust for Democracy, Ivan Vejvoda, says Karadzic's arrest was the right move for the Serbian government.
"Of course, I am not happy with the result but this is part of football," the Serbian told reporters the day after Costa Rica's 1-1 draw with Turkey in group C had ruled China out of reaching the second round.
But what drew a beautiful Serbian design studio assistant working in Hammersmith to an eccentric former solicitor and butterfly fanatic?
"Jiveli" is the Serbian for "Cheers", but despite Sasha's long-suffering efforts to help me pronounce it exactly right, by the third beer I was going backwards.
The Patriarch of the Serbian church has backed the protesters.
He remains a big soccer promoter, and is a board member of the team and an official with the Serbian Football Association.
And the same evening German motorized forces reached the Serbian frontiers.
Macedonia's authorities protect the local Orthodox church from its Serbian neighbour, whose priests, seen by patriotic Macedonians as agents of Serbia, may not cross the border wearing clerical garb.
Unlike the Romanian, Bulgarian and Greek monarchies, which have Germanic roots, the Serbian one was home-grown.
Their church stands next to a Serbian Orthodox one (see right). The walls of their little church hall are decorated with pictures of generation upon generation of their local choir.
