Ekaterina Central Stadium is the most bizarre of all 12 stadiums in this World Cup in Russia.
The Central Stadium was built in 1953 and has since undergone a renovation, expanding the seating capacity from 20,000 to 27,000. It is the home stadium of the Russian Super League team Yip 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. It was neither willing to change cities nor had the money to completely rebuild it, so smart Russian architects got creative.
A large window-like hole was opened at both ends of the stadium. Two stands were built with scaffolding outside the window, like bay windows. The two temporary stands can seat a total of 10,000 people, and you can completely see the turf through the hole.
Sometimes you have to admire Lao Maozi's violent aesthetics.
Fan Lao He was sitting in this unique stand.
Lao He is not Chinese. His full name is Emel 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 Rebellion was raging in China.
, especially people in the south are living a difficult life.
The Chinese blood in Lao He's body is no longer pure. Rather than saying that there are traces of Chinese in his eyebrows, he is more like an Indian. And judging from his dark complexion, he should also have a high content of African-American mixed blood.
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But there are many people of Chinese descent like Lao He in Peru. Many people still retain their ancient Chinese surnames and the Peruvian Zhejiang dialect that they can understand each other but Zhejiang people absolutely cannot. In fact, his surname is 'he', but in the end
I can't figure out whether it's 'Hey' or 'He'.
The number of Chinese in Peru ranks first in South America, and they are all doing well. The more relatively wealthy cities, the more Chinese there are, but they are basically invisible in the economically underdeveloped central and eastern mountainous areas.
Lao He is 40 years old this year. He became a fan because his father is a fan.
Lao He's family has lived a very good life. They have been considered a wealthy class in Lima, the capital, since their grandfather's generation. The family has a business, a factory, and shares in several small mines.
Only when you have money can you have leisure and the economic foundation to travel across the ocean to Russia to cheer for the national team. Therefore, among the nearly 2,000 Peruvian fans in Yekaterinburg, there are many of Chinese descent.
36 years ago, 40-year-old Father He went to Spain to cheer for Peru and Cubilas. Four-year-old He wanted to follow, but was rejected by his father because he was too young.
Dad said: Next time, next time I will definitely take you there.
As a result, this wait is 36 years.
In Russia 36 years later, it was not Father He who brought Lao He, but Lao He who brought his father, who was nearly eighty years old, to relive the old dream. Like many Peruvian fans, the father and son were dressed up in fancy clothes, with alpaca-shaped hats on their heads.
Wearing clothes shaped like cinchona leaves, with a Peruvian flag draped behind her back.
The He family and his son, like other Peruvian fans at the scene, never doubted that they were Peruvians. They had no feelings about China. They usually talked about China with other Chinese people the same way they talked about the United States and France.
In the match between Peru and the Chinese team, they will support their country 100%. If it were the Chinese team and someone else, they might give symbolic support because of their blood ties, but there is no way to do it with Peru.
This is understandable and is also the basic quality of fans. Modern football confrontation is based on strong regional emotions.
In fact, Lao He and the Peruvian fans are still very dissatisfied with the Chinese fans. The game's ticket allocation was based on the estimated sales, and the Chinese fans were allocated 15,000, the Peruvian 6,000, and the rest went to the local Yebao and other neutrals.
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But Chinese fans came in overwhelming numbers, not only carving up their own 15,000 yuan early, but also bought many tickets from Russian fans at high prices. But even so, they still couldn't satisfy the greedy appetite of Chinese fans, and they finally bought Peruvian tickets.
Tickets.
In the end, nearly 30,000 Chinese people almost occupied the 35,000-seat Central Stadium, and only 2,000 of the 4,000 Peruvian expedition fans came in. Whether out of anger or jealousy, Lao He and the Peruvians were quite dissatisfied with this, it was too arrogant
Mom is bullying someone.
Suddenly, Andre Carrillo scored and Peru took a 1:0 lead. Lao He and the Peruvian fans were caught off guard and were stunned at first, then fell into great ecstasy.
Peru has been waiting for this goal for 36 years, turning countless young people into old people.
Father He was shouting heart-breakingly in the crowd, and Father He was urging him to take it easy. His father's heart was suffering from an old problem, and he was worried that he wouldn't be able to withstand such a torment.
But the persuasion didn't work at all, and he couldn't even be heard. Lao He simply let his father be "unbridled" for once, and he jumped along with him.
While celebrating crazily, Lao He proudly glanced at the somewhat depressed Chinese next to him: Humph! Isn’t that amazing?
There are so few Peruvian fans that they can't even fill one stand.
Lao He and the others were shouting, but they found that the Chinese people around them stood up. After a while, all the Chinese people in the audience stood up. Under the command of several fan leaders, they began to shout one word after another very rhythmically.
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Lao He couldn't understand it, but he felt that those words should be names.
The voices of 30,000 people instantly suppressed the 2,000 people and disappeared without a trace, like snowflakes falling into the lake.
Then, the Chinese people sang again, with neat and magnificent voices.
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The Chinese team was not confused by conceding a goal, but was confused by the Peruvians' craziness in celebrating the goal. As for that? Wasn't it just a goal? Did you, Peru, also have a war of resistance and then win?
Zhuoyang didn't understand why the Peruvians were so crazy at first, but his brain reacted quickly. He remembered seeing "36 years" in the newspaper before the game, and he instantly understood his opponent.
Eight years ago in South Africa, when Li Jinyu scored the first World Cup goal in the history of the Chinese team, everyone was the same.
Dongzi came over and asked him: "Brother, what's wrong with these people? It's their first time playing football today?"
"Hey, you forgot, eight years ago we..." Zhuo Yang stopped again, because he remembered that there was no house eight years ago, and he would not feel the same way.
Then there was another heartfelt emotion. Looking around, I saw that the person who participated in the historic battle with Paraguay eight years ago was the only one left in the starting lineup today.
Lao Zheng, Dalei and Xiao Feng are all on the bench. They were in South Africa eight years ago. Today they should be able to understand the Peruvians' "making a fuss out of a molehill".
The Chinese team waited patiently for the Peruvians to celebrate, but before they could finish celebrating, the Chinese fans in the stands became violent.
Thirty thousand people, starting with captain Zhuo Yang, shouted the names of the players one after another, shouting "come on".
What followed was the chorus of "Chinese March" by thousands of people, and the majestic singing resounded in the sky over Yekaterinburg.
"Chinese March" was composed and arranged by Zhuo Yang a few years ago. It is a cheering song specially produced for football and fans. Although the tonality is a march tune originating from the West, the mode adopts the traditional Chinese "Gong Shang Jiao Zheng" Feather's five-tone mode, majestic and cheerful Chinese style, catchy, has become the first choice of cheering songs for Chinese fans.
Zhuo Yang no longer lamented. Understanding is understanding. Listening to this indomitable chorus of ten thousand people, this is called seeing the world.
Chapter completed!