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Chapter 38 The South Stand that Melts Everything(2/3)

Bruno loves to laugh, and his laughter is very loud and cheerful. He gave Zhou Yi a good first impression, so Zhou Yi also smiled and nodded, "No problem, I'll listen to you, 'Dad'!"

Seeing Zhou Yi say this, Bruno happily patted his shoulder: "Get ready to enjoy football!"

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Zhou Yi’s first enjoyment was not football, but the chorus of fans in the South Stand.

After they landed, the South stand was quickly filled. Soon, Zhou Yi was surrounded by people, and he had to turn a little on his side, otherwise he would not even be able to pull out his arms.

Only then did he understand why Mark asked him to unload the inventory before the game. Looking at the dense crowds below, it would be impossible to squeeze out a way out and go to the toilet!

After almost all the fans came, music started to play on the radio on the stadium, which was the official team song of Dortmund Club "We Stand Together".

Not everyone would sing along at the beginning, until the end of the festival, the Dortmund fans in the South Stand and other stands would sing with their arms and sing: "Only one, only one - Dortmund will never die!!"

The team song will be played immediately.

Next, another magnificent symphony melody sounded on the stadium. This was a music excerpt from the second act of Verdi's fourth-act opera "Aida", called "March of Triumph". With the magnificent music and the chorus of the fans in the stands, the players from both sides ran out to warm up.

Zhou Yi focused all his attention on Dortmund's first-team players. Some of these people will be their own teammates in the future...

It’s a pity that the stands were too high and the people seemed very small, so he didn’t see it very clearly. However, when he turned his head, he saw a large screen on the side of the stands, which was the TV broadcast signal of the players warming up. Now he can recognize those stars one by one.

Goalkeeper Weidenfell, full-back Brazilian Dede, central defender Subertic, Korean full-back Li Rongpyo, captain Sebastian Kyle, forward Valdes, Turkish genius Nurui Shahin from Dortmund youth training, and excellent defender Schmelze from Dortmund youth training...

When the players warmed up, the atmosphere in the south stands was relatively relaxed. Except for everyone standing, Zhou Yi didn't think there was anything special about the legendary south stands.

But when the warm-up ended, some old black and white photos appeared on the big screen. There was a picture of a player wearing a Dortmund jersey and holding a salad plate high. The radio said: "All theories are gray, and the winner can be decided on the field."

A middle-aged man in yellow appeared on the court with a microphone, with a camera camera next to him.

"This is the host of the stadium!" Mark explained to Zhou Yi, who came to watch the game for the first time. Because there were too many people and the sound was too noisy, he had to say loudly despite pressing Zhou Yi. "Norbert Dikor! We all call him 'Norbi'! He is also a legendary figure of the Dortmund club. He scored twice in the 1989 German Cup final, helping us win 4:1 and win the German Cup! And our opponent at that time was today's opponent Werder Bremen! If Nobi was not troubled by injury, I think he would definitely have achieved greater success in Dortmund!"

Nobi walked to the center of the stadium, holding a microphone and said, "Friends, Signa Iduna Park Stadium..."

"It's Westphalia!" Zhou Yi's fans were correcting loudly.

In order to alleviate the financial crisis, Dortmund Club sold the naming rights of the stadium in exchange for sponsorship. However, Dortmund fans have always been accustomed to calling this stadium by Westphalia, rather than the difficult-to-mouth Signa Iduna Park Stadium...

Of course, as the official host of the club, the interests of the sponsors must be considered. Even if he is emotionally inclined to Westphalia's old name, he cannot be said on such occasions.

He continued: "...watch the 23rd round of the Bundesliga, we will host Werder Bremen at home. First, let us say hello to the fans of Werder Bremen who are coming from afar!"

He turned toward the visiting team fan area and waved: "Hello, welcome to the best stadium in the world!!"

Responding to him was the booing from the unconvincing Werder Bremen fans.

Some fans around Zhou Yi laughed. Obviously they all knew that Nobi was deliberately emphasizing the point of "the best stadium in the world" to encourage the fans of Werder Bremen. Before the opening, the host also greeted the fans of the away team. It looked very friendly? In fact, it was not at all!

Nobi ignored the booing of the visiting team fans and turned around and continued: "Of course, we also want to dedicate the applause to all the yellow and black fans who came to watch the ball! Our tickets were sold out again! Once again, there were more than 80,000 spectators on the scene! Welcome the best fans in the league, welcome - Dortmund fans!!"

All Dortmund fans in the stands raised their arms and responded loudly.

Zhou Yi also did this with Mark.

"Good job, Chinese boy. You look like a real Dortmund fan!" Behind him, Bruno patted his shoulder with satisfaction.

After the welcome speech, Nobi walked to the bottom of the South stand, facing the South stand, and at the same time, some changes have taken place in the South stand.

Mark raised his arm with his scarf and said excitedly: "Our ceremony is here, this is our ceremony!"

Then before Zhou Yi could react, the music started to sing along with the chorus.

It turned out to be "You Will Never Walk Alone"!

Although this song is the official team song of Liverpool, it has also become a common fan song and is sung at home in many countries around the world.

At this point, the atmosphere on the scene was pushed to a climax little by little.

Zhou Yi also followed Mark, pulling both ends of the scarf with both hands, raising his arms and pulling them apart, and the scarf was displayed. He shook his arms while singing.

At first he was still not in the state, but soon he found some feelings in the chorus.

It is really shocking to sing a song together, which will cause a critical blow to people's hearts.

He began to integrate into this stand, into those people who were crazy about football, because he himself was such a person who loved football...

At this time, the south stands, looking around, they were covered with yellow and black scarves, like a "wall" made of yellow and black bricks, which was 100 meters long and forty meters high!

A wall of yellow and black!

The flags were waving on the wall, the wind was surging, and the singing was shaking. This was Westphalon's South Stand!

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After the chorus, Nobi began to broadcast Dortmund's starting list of the game.

In the past, Zhou Yi always believed that the starting list was played by DJs in the studio. Today, I realized that they were standing in the stadium and leading everyone to shout out the names of the players.

"No. 1, goalkeeper, Roman--"

Nobi reported the player's name, and the Dortmund fans in the stands collectively shouted out the player's surname: "Weedenfeller!!"

At the same time, players' photos, names, numbers and other information also appear on the big screen.

"No. 4, guard, Newen-"

"Subertic!!"

Zhou Yi also shouted with everyone, and at the same time, he was looking forward to one day when his name was shouted out like this...

"No. 23, midfielder, Yi--"

"week!!!"

When he was quite passionate, Zhou Yi suddenly felt that the style was wrong. He shouted like this and seemed to be saying "a week". What the hell is it? He is not used to this kind of name inverted. It seems that he would like to remind Nobi in the future. If he wants to introduce him, he will call it according to the habits of our Chinese people...

After introducing the starter and substitute players, the last one who was grandly introduced was the head coach.

"Jurgen—"

"Klopp!!!"

From the fans' shouts, it can be heard that although Dortmund's current performance is not very good, Klopp's position in their minds is still very high. This is not because of the team's performance. Their love for Klopp is more due to Klopp's own personal charm.

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After the competition began, Zhou Yi's ears were filled with various shouts and singing, and there was no time to be quiet for a moment. He even doubted whether the sound would be lingering in his ears for three days...

As the competition progressed, Zhou Yi began to gradually feel the uniqueness of the South Stand.

Because the people here stand to watch the game, and there are a lot of people - many teams in the Bundesliga have seats at home, but the seats at Westphalia Stadium in Dortmund have the largest number of people - 25,000.

So many people gathered together, even if they only emitted one syllable, it was enough to create a huge impact on the sky above the court.

Not to mention that the South Stand is very close to the stadium and has an extremely steep slope, which makes the fans in the bottom row almost bend their legs and their knees seem to be able to hit the goalkeeper in front.

Werder Bremen goalkeeper Tim Wizer, who stood in front of this stand in the first half, was playing football under this pressure - every attack by Dortmund can attract huge shouts from the South stand. If Wizer blocks the Dortmund player's shot, then boo and scold him will be heard from the South stand immediately.

Singing, shouting, booing, scolding... The Dortmund fans standing in the southern stands did not stop for a second. They seemed tireless, releasing their emotions to the fullest, throwing the stereotyped impression of the Germans on weekdays out of the sky.

Here, it is not like the seats and VIP areas and the identity surprise. As long as you stand in the south stand, no matter what your identity is outside the court, whether it is a university professor, an ordinary worker, a student, or a mother of several children... it doesn't matter.

Here, you are the most loyal and loyal fan of Dortmund. The 25,000 people gathered just because of the Dortmund Football Club. Whether these people believe in Protestantism or Catholicism... different religious beliefs here are irrelevant at this moment, because Dortmund is the common belief of all of them.

Just as the fans in the South Stand sang: "Our life, all our pride and joy are just for BVB!"

Zhou Yi is in it. If someone asks him how he feels to watch a Dortmund game in the south stands of Westphalia Stadium, although he can usually talk nonsense, it will be difficult for him to describe this feeling in words now.

If he doesn't want to say the cliché of "this has an irresistible attraction to me" or "this is a close relationship between the fans and the team", he can only suggest that the other party come and experience it in person.

If you don't stand here, you will never understand why there are so many famous "South Stand" and "North Stand" gathered in the world. Only Westphalon's "South Stand" is the most famous. It is not just a large number of people... There is really an invisible force that impacts the hearts of everyone standing here.

At least Zhou Yi himself felt that he was gradually melting in this passionate storm.

It was not because he was a Dortmund fan. The reason why he played for Dortmund was different from Mark. He just thought that Dortmund valued himself more and under Klopp, he might have more opportunities to play, which is beneficial to his career.

This is entirely out of considerations of one's own interests, objective and rational, but also cold.

But now, after yelling with Mark and others in the South Stand, after singing for dozens of minutes, in addition to his hoarse voice, Zhou Yi gradually gained another emotion - he was willing to wear Dortmund's yellow shirt for these crazy fans, run with all his might on this court, send out a wonderful pass, help the team score goals, and win, just to hear the fans of Nankan billiards shouting their names.

When he was recording the program "The Heir of Green" he played for a week with Dortmund U17 in the virtual system. The venue he chose was this Westphalon Stadium. It was also full at the time. The stadium was very noisy during the game, and the fans were singing and cheering.

But after playing so many games in the virtual system, Zhou Yi's understanding and feeling about this stadium is not as deep as it is now.

Because the system can perfectly simulate the sound in reality, even decibels. But no matter how perfect the system is, the feelings of everyone standing in this stands, towards Dortmund, and the story behind this feeling, cannot be simulated by a system.

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In the 64th minute, Dortmund's starting striker, Swiss Alexander Frey, used a penalty kick to break the deadlock for Dortmund.

When the football flew into the goal, everyone in the South stand jumped up excitedly, then rushed down and hugged others. Zhou Yi and Mark were pushed down by the excited fans behind, and they did not stabilize until they were blocked by the railing.

Only then did Zhou Yi realize that the short railings spread all over the south stands were not just for everyone to tie scarves and hang slogans and banners...

In the end, with Frey's penalty, Dortmund defeated Werder Bremen 1-0 at home and achieved a key victory.

Zhou Yi, who watched the Dortmund game on the first time in the South Stand, was difficult to calm down and evaluate the team's performance at this moment. He was still immersed in the atmosphere of the South Stand and did not come back to his senses.

Mark, this kid who is not the first time watching football in the South Stand, is not much better than Zhou Yi.

At the end of the game, he turned his head to look at Zhou Yi, and said to him with tears in his eyes: "Zhou Yi, do you know? When standing here to watch the football, I suddenly remembered my self-deprecating behavior a few days ago. I deleted the character you built for me in the game... Now I think about it, I am such a big idiot! A big idiot!"

"I have been a fan of this team since I was born. My biggest dream in life is to play football at Westphalia Stadium on behalf of Dortmund and play football in the South Stand. I want to be called my name by Bruno's 'Daddy's and others. I want to help Dortmund hold the salad plate and hold the Champions League... These dreams have not yet come true, why am I almost knocked down by a training class?"
To be continued...
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