Golden Greenery

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

The Central Stadium was built in 1 and underwent a renovation, expanding the seating capacity from 20,000 to 27,000. This 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 each end of the stadium, and 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 can fully see the turf through the holes.

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

Fan Lao He is 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 Heavenly Kingdom was raging in China, and people in the south, especially, were 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 looks more like an Indian. And judging from his dark complexion, he should have a high level of African-American mixed blood.

However, 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 is understandable to each other but absolutely incomprehensible to Zhejiang people. In fact, his surname is ‘he’, but it’s unclear whether it is ‘he’ 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 with money can you have leisure time 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.

3 Dad 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, the wait is 36 years.

3 It was Father He who brought Lao He, but it was Lao He who brought his father, who was nearly eighty years old, to relive his old dream. The father and son were dressed up like many Peruvian fans, with alpaca-shaped hats on their heads, clothes shaped like cinchona leaves, and the Peruvian flag draped behind their backs.

Like other Peruvian fans at the scene, the He family and his son never doubted that they were Peruvians and had no feelings about China. Talking about China with other Chinese people was no different from talking about the United States and France.

In the match between Peru and China, they will support their country 100%. If it were the Chinese team and someone else, they might give symbolic support because of their blood connection, 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, with 15,000 allocated to Chinese fans, 6,000 to Peruvian fans, and the rest to local Yebao and other neutral fans.

But Chinese fans came in overwhelming numbers. Not only did they carve up their own 15,000 yuan early, they also purchased many tickets from Russian fans at high prices. But even so, it still couldn't satisfy the greedy appetite of Chinese fans, and they ended up buying tickets to Peru.

In the end, nearly 30,000 Chinese people almost occupied the central stadium, which can seat 35,000 people. Of the 4,000 Peruvian Expedition fans, less than 2,000 came in. Whether out of anger or jealousy, Lao He and the Peruvians were quite dissatisfied with this, it was so fucking bullying.

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 waited a full 3 minutes for this goal.

Dad He was shouting heart-breakingly in the crowd, and he was urging him to take it easy. Dad'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! Amazing?

There were so few Peruvian fans that they couldn't even fill one of the stands.

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. .

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

The voices of 30,000 people instantly suppressed 2,000 people and disappeared without a trace, as if snowflakes had fallen 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 the ball, but was confused by the Peruvians' crazy celebration of the goal. As for that? Didn't he just score a goal? Did you also have a war of resistance in Peru and then win?

Zhuoyang didn't understand why the Peruvians were so crazy at first, but he reacted quickly and remembered seeing '3' in the newspaper before the game and 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 the first time today to play football?"

"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 some expressed their sincere emotions. Looking around, the person who participated in the historic battle with Paraguay eight years ago is 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".

Immediately afterwards, thousands of people sang the "Chinese March", and the majestic singing resounded over Yekaterinburg.

"Chinese March" 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 march tune originated 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 sighed. Understand, understand, listen to this indomitable chorus of ten thousand people, this is called seeing the world.

Punching his chest with his right fist, Zhuo Yang pointed his thumb towards the stands and towards the singing fans. Following his rhythm, countless red flags began to wave, like rolling hot lava.