Golden Greenery

() Yekaterinburg Central Stadium is the most weird among all the 12 stadiums in this World Cup in Russia.

The Central Stadium was built in 1953 and has since undergone a renovation, allowing the seats to be expanded from 20,000 to 27,000. It is the home stadium of the Russian Super League team Yeburg Ural.

After being selected as the World Cup venue, the number of seats in the Central Stadium could not meet the minimum requirement of at least 35,000 set by FIFA. He was reluctant to change the city or have no money to rebuild it completely, so the smart Russian architect had a big brain.

A large hole like a window was opened at each end of the stadium. Two pieces of bleachers were erected outside the windows with scaffolding, like bay windows. The two temporary stands can seat a total of 10,000 people, and the turf can be seen completely through the hole.

Sometimes you have to admire Lao Maozi's violent aesthetics.

Fan Lao He sits in this unique stand.

Lao He is not Chinese. His full name is Emmel Trujillo Ho Mori. He is a Peruvian. His ancestors immigrated to Peru from Zhejiang as early as the Qing Dynasty. At that time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was raging on the land of China, especially the people in the south had a difficult life.

The Chinese ancestry in Lao He is no longer pure, so he looks more like an Indian rather than a Chinese. And judging from the dark complexion, he should also have a high content of mixed African descent.

However, there are many Chinese descendants like Lao He in Peru. Many people still retain the ancient Chinese surnames and the Peruvian Zhejiang dialect that can be understood by each other but the Zhejiangese absolutely do not. In fact, his last name is ‘he’, but it’s not clear whether it is ‘He’ or ‘He’.

The number of Chinese in Peru ranks first in South America, and the mix is ​​pretty good. The more affluent cities, the more Chinese. The economically underdeveloped central and eastern mountainous areas are basically invisible.

He is 40 years old this year. He became a fan because his father is a fan.

The Lao He family has a very good life. From the grandfather generation, Lima, the capital, has been a wealthy class. The family has businesses, factories, and shares in several small mines.

Only with money can you have leisure and have the economic foundation to travel across the oceans to Russia to cheer for the national team. Therefore, many of the nearly 2,000 Peruvian fans in Yekaterinburg have many Chinese descendants.

36 years ago, 40-year-old He went to Spain to cheer for Peru and Kubilas. Four-year-old He wanted to follow, but was rejected by his father because he was too young.

The old man said: Next time, next time I will take you there.

The result is 36 years.

36 years later, in Russia, it is not Father He who brought Lao He, but Lao He who brought his nearly 80-year-old father to come to relive his old dreams. The father and son, like many Peruvian fans, are dressed up in splendid fashion, with alpaca hats on their heads, wearing clothes in the shape of leaves of a Cinchona tree, and the Peruvian flag on their backs.

Like the other Peruvian fans at the scene, He's father and son never doubted that they were Peruvians. They had no feelings about China. They usually talked about China with other Chinese people, and talked about the United States and France.

In the match between Peru and China, they will support their country 100%. If you switch to the Chinese team and someone else, they might support it symbolically because of the blood connection, but they don’t have the same with Peru.

This is understandable, and it is also the basic quality of fans. Modern football confrontation is built on strong regional emotions.

In fact, Lao He and Peruvian fans are still very dissatisfied with Chinese fans. In the game, the ticket distribution was originally based on the estimated sales tilt, with 15,000 for Chinese fans, 6,000 for Peru, and the rest for local and other neutral fans in Yebao.

But the Chinese fans came in overwhelmingly. Not only did they divide up their own 15 thousand early, they also bought many tickets in the hands of Russian fans at high prices. But even so, it still can't satisfy the greedy appetite of Chinese fans, and they finally bought tickets to Peru.

In the end, nearly 30,000 Chinese occupied almost the 35,000-capable Central Stadium, and fewer than 2,000 Peruvian expedition fans came in. Whether out of anger or jealousy, Lao He and the Peruvians are quite dissatisfied with this, and they are so **** bullying.

Suddenly, Andre Carrillo scored and Peru took a 1-0 lead. Lao He and the Peruvian fans who were caught off guard were at a loss, and then fell into a huge ecstasy.

For this goal, Peru has waited for 36 years, turning countless small Ho into old Ho.

Father He screamed heartbreakingly in the crowd, and he tried to persuade him to relax. Father's heart was old and he was worried that he would not be able to withstand such a toss.

But persuasion didn't work at all, and I couldn't even hear him. How could he simply let his father ‘presumptuous’ once, and he jumped and jumped with him.

While celebrating wildly, Lao He glanced proudly at the somewhat low Chinese man next to him: Humph! Is it amazing?

There are too few Peruvian fans to fill even a piece of the stands.

They were yelling, but they found that the Chinese around them all stood up. After a while, all the Chinese stood up. Under the command of several fan leaders, they began to yell every word in a very rhythmic manner. .

He couldn't understand, but he felt that those words should be names.

The voice of 30,000 people instantly suppressed 2,000 people without a trace, as if snowflakes fell into the lake.

Then, the Chinese sang again, the singing was neat and magnificent.

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The Chinese team was not fooled by the loss of the ball, but was fooled by the madness of the Peruvian celebrating the goal. As for? Didn’t it just score a goal? Did you also have a war in Peru, and then you won?

Zhuo Yang didn't understand why the Peruvians were so mad at first, but his brain reacted quickly. He remembered seeing the "36 years" in the newspaper before the game, and instantly understood his opponent.

When Li Jinyu scored the first World Cup goal in the history of the Chinese team in South Africa eight years ago, everyone did the same.

Dongzi came over and asked him, "Brother, what's wrong with these people, playing football for the first time today?"

"Hey, you forgot, eight years ago we..." Zhuo Yang stopped again, because he remembered that there was no dongzi eight years ago, and he would not feel the same way.

Then there were heartfelt sighs. Looking around, there is only one person left in the starting lineup today who participated in the historic battle against Paraguay eight years ago.

Lao Zheng, Da Lei, Xiao Feng, UU reading www. uukanshu.com are all on the bench. They were in South Africa eight years ago, and today they should be able to understand that the Peruvians are making a big fuss.

The Chinese team waited patiently for the Peruvians to celebrate, but before they finished celebrating, the Chinese fans swept through the stands.

Starting from the captain Zhuo Yang, 30,000 people shouted the names of the players one after another in unison, shouting one by one, ‘Come on’.

Immediately afterwards, a chorus of 10,000 people sang the "March of China", and the magnificent singing resounded over Yekaterinburg.

"The March of China" is a cheering song composed and arranged by Zhuo Yang a few years ago, specially produced for football and fans. Although the tonality is a marching tune that originated in the West, the tune adopts the traditional Chinese "Gong Shang Jiao Zheng" Yu' five-tone style, majestic and cheerful Chinese style, catchy, has become the first choice for Chinese fans to cheer.

Zhuo Yang no longer sighed. To understand is to understand, and to listen to this indomitable chorus of tens of thousands of people, this is what you call the world.

With his right fist punched his chest, Zhuo Yang put his thumb up to the stands, and up to the fans in Gao Gezhong. Following his rhythm, countless red flags began to wave and flutter, like tumbling hot lava.