This is the midfield master!

Chapter 511 Except for Su Chen, no one can always win in football!

At this time, his teammates also immediately came up and walked side by side with Su Chen back to the locker room. On the way, everyone chatted together.

Asensio joked: "Thank you Suchen, otherwise we wouldn't be so relaxed."

"It feels like flying to a game is more tiring than playing football."

Others also laughed.

Indeed, Su Chen easily won the game, and no one else needed to do much.

This feeling of winning by lying down is simply great!

Everyone happily returned to the locker room, took a shower and changed clothes.

And the other side.

Zidane was being interviewed by reporters. Regarding tonight's game, he said with a smile: "I have praised Su Chen countless times and I don't think it is repeated. He is really great! I said, I hope he can win the Ballon d'Or, if the Ballon d'Or asks me to vote. I will definitely and definitely vote for Suchen! And only him!"

Even when talking about Debiasi, Zidane said: "For him (Debiasi), this may be a regrettable night. He was not able to win a victory at home and did not gain any points. . But this is football, no one can always win in football."

"He is a top coach and he has done significant things. I hope tonight's game will not affect his mood at the weekend. This is just the beginning of his time in La Liga and I look forward to him doing better."

After Zidane finished speaking, he was ready to leave.

However, he suddenly turned back and said to the reporter, "In addition, no one can always win in football, except Su Chen."

The reporters were all confused by Zidane's move.

However, after hearing Zidane's words, the reporter suddenly felt that there was nothing.

Indeed, Zidane did not lie.

No one can win all the time, except Su Chen!

The entire Real Madrid team returned to Madrid from Vitoria.

They will go to Germany in three days to challenge the world-famous Devil's home stadium, Dortmund's home stadium!

The Spanish media did not report much about Real Madrid's victory over Alaves.

After all, the gap between Alaves and Real Madrid is so big that there is not much good news.

The media has focused their attention on the upcoming match between Real Madrid and Dortmund!

Many media even dug up the previous records of the match between Real Madrid and Dortmund. Of course, the Galacticos had an overall advantage.

Moreover, Real Madrid still has Su Chen!

Therefore, although it is Dortmund's home court, Real Madrid fans actually don't have too many worries about scoring points at Dortmund's home court.

Su Chen is the absolute source of their confidence!

the next day.

Su Chen is still training as usual. Regarding Dortmund, he actually doesn't have much fluctuation in his heart.

After all, they are all defeated.

But this trip will definitely not be that easy.

Westphalia!

This is a home court that no team wants to face!

There are many devilish home stadiums in football.

But it can be unanimously recognized by everyone.

It is basically the Westfalenstadion, the home ground of Dortmund, now also known as the Signal Iduna Park.

This stadium, which can accommodate 81365 fans, is the largest stadium in Germany, with an average of more than fans attending each game.

It can be said to be a real stadium with 80,000 people!

The time will soon come to July 9st.

Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Dortmund is packed with people today, almost most of the residents here are discussing tonight's Champions League game.

Fans who bought tickets are already looking forward to it.

Fans who didn't buy tickets had to make an appointment with their friends who also didn't buy tickets, and went to the bar to watch the game and drink together.

Fans who really don’t have any companions can just go to the bar alone.

Because today, all the bars in Dortmund are people watching football!

This game is very important for the Dortmund team!

Because they want to qualify for the Champions League, they need to get a point as much as possible in a strong dialogue with Real Madrid.

That night.

Fans near Dortmund's home court were already wearing yellow jerseys and singing together:

"We are firmly and loyally together!"

"Cheers for football, Dortmund~"

"In front of any opponent~"

"I will never lose my courage and confidence~"

"We experience joy from it~"

"Yellow is our color~"

"We feel alive from it~"

"There is happiness here and never give up~"

"We have no hatred~"

"Let's hold hands~"

"Full of passion and smile~"

"We already know each other~"

"Our team is world-famous~"

"Everyone knows~"

"Dortmund players~"

"Always the strongest~~"

"When the whistle blows~Dortmund starts to move forward~"

"We are ready for every game~"

"We always defend our goal~"

"One more thing~ one more thing~"

"That is~Dortmund will never sink~~"

This is their team song, and every Dortmund fan sings it very enthusiastically!

No matter what the final result of the game is.

They will always accompany the team forward!

As the bus of Real Madrid players entered the stadium, everything came to a climax!

Dortmund fans enter.

Inside the Westfalenstadion, the sound was even louder!

When Su Chen came out for warm-ups, he felt a surge of blood in his heart when he looked at the yellow and black fans who had arrived early.

This is football!

It can bring countless fans together!

Even though this is his opponent, he still feels passionate.

Moreover, although the Westfalenstadion is the scariest home stadium in Europe, it is also the warmest home stadium.

The Dortmund club, which was formed as early as 1909, did not enjoy such good home treatment at the beginning.

Dortmund's earliest home stadium was a municipal stadium with a running track and a jumping pit.

With the development of the times, Dortmund has gradually grown into one of the outstanding clubs in Germany at that time.

Especially after Dortmund became the first German team to win the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1966, the number of Dortmund fans surged. Considering safety risks, Dortmund proposed to the city government to renovate and expand the stadium. However, governments across Germany have very tight finances and have not passed the stadium reconstruction and expansion plan.

It was not until April 1974, 4 that Borussia Dortmund officially entered the new stadium, the Westfalenstadion.

The name Westphalia comes from Westphalia, which was once under the jurisdiction of Prussia.

Since then, the Westfalenstadion has started a new journey with the yellow and black colors of Dortmund.

The newly completed Westfalenstadion consists of four covered stands, four stands in the southeast, northwest and northwest. The east and west stands were next to a field at that time. The east and west stands were seating stands with about 17000 seats. The two northwest stands accommodate 37000 seats.

It was these positions that led to the beginning of Dortmund's "yellow and black wall" legend.

Due to FIFA and UEFA regulations, in 1992 the entire North Stand, the lower East Stand and the lower West Stand of Westfalen had been converted into seats, and the stadium's capacity was reduced accordingly.

After Dortmund won the Bundesliga championship in 1995, the Westfalenstadion ushered in expansion again.

The two main stands in the east and west were raised to two floors.

The stadium's capacity has returned to its original capacity of 54000, with 38500 seats and more than 10000 standing-room seats.

In 1997, Dortmund won the UEFA Champions League historically, and the Westfalenstadion was expanded again.

This time, the north and south stands were expanded, bringing the total number of spectators to 68800.

After several renovations and expansions, the Westfalenstadion has become very impressive.

Nearly half a century has passed since the completion of the Westfalenstadion. Taking advantage of the opportunity to bid for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the Westfalenstadion began its third expansion in history, increasing the number of seats from 52000 to 67000.

During this renovation and expansion process, a horrifying episode also occurred - construction workers discovered an unexploded 1000-pound bomb from World War II during the renovation and expansion!

It was determined that the bomb was dropped by an Allied bomber and was only about one meter away from the center line of the newly renovated and expanded stadium.

After more than an hour of careful defuses by bomb disposal experts, the Westfalenstadion was relieved of the crisis.

However, the Westfalenstadion has undergone several major renovations over the years, but the standing area of ​​the south stand is still retained.

The South Stand is the gathering area for Dortmund season ticket holders and die-hard supporters.

It is also the largest independent stand in Europe that can accept standing spectators, with a capacity of 25000 people!

People affectionately call it Die.gelbe.Wand, which translates into Chinese as the yellow wall.

I have to talk more about the German die-hard fan culture here.

German fans are community fans and fans with a sense of belonging.

A large number of fans are die-hard fans of their own communities. In addition to the familiar top league teams, there are teams in various small communities in Germany.

These teams are not even considered to be in the sixth tier of the German football system.

The team name may also be the name of a community or a subway station in each region, but they all have very die-hard fan groups!

Every weekend the competition is as lively as a community collective activity day.

It is precisely the existence of these teams and the cultural and traditional habits of these fans that have developed the watching habit of German die-hard fans: standing and watching the game.

The culture of die-hard fans in the Dortmund South Stand is even more integrated.

There is a documentary dedicated to filming this group of die-hard Dortmund fans called "The Yellow Wall".

This documentary selects the stories of fans of different ages, different professions, different genders, and even different sexual orientations in the Westfalen South Stand.

There is an old man in the documentary who was a mine worker. His father was also a mine worker. Their family’s tradition of fans is the same as their family’s tradition of working in the mines.

It's just that when the old man has lived to this age, the only people who can accompany him to watch football are his old workers who, like him, were unable to work in the mines due to injuries.

The old man once lost confidence in life after retiring early due to injury. However, the old man slowly regained his love for life by watching Dortmund's games day after day and helping the fans organization in the South Stand maintain order on the court.

There are also many die-hard female fans of Dortmund. There is a cool old lady in the documentary. She came alone on the match day with a cane.

She also brought snacks and candies and distributed them to familiar staff and young fans who watched them grow up.

The old lady knew everything about the Westfalen South Stand by heart.

To us, this may be an old lady who has been married three times and has rich life experience, but in the eyes of the old lady, the Westfalenstadion is like her first love. When talking about every plant and tree here, every detail is Wow, the old lady’s eyes are shining like a shining girl who just fell in love.

These fans are just like this club, simple and tough, with passion and warmth.

For them, the coming and going of Dortmund coaches and players is just like the people and things that come and go in life. There are regrets, sadness, surprises and sadness, but the only thing that remains unchanged is love, the love for Dortmund. The love of life.

The old fans love Westphalia so deeply that it is natural that it is difficult to let go of the other name of the stadium, Signal Iduna Park.

The ownership rights of Westfalen initially belonged to the Dortmund Municipality, which was later sold to the Borussia Dortmund Club.

In 2002, under the leadership of Sammer, Dortmund once again took up the salad plate. Taking advantage of the success of the listing, Dortmund's senior management believed that it was time to make a big move.

So they spent a lot of money in the transfer market.

However, as the only listed company in the Bundesliga at the time, the sudden collapse of the cooperative enterprise Kirch Media Group caused a swan effect that caused Dortmund's share of TV broadcasts to drop sharply, and then Dortmund's stock price continued to fall.

What's even more sad is that in 2003, Dortmund failed to qualify for the Champions League next season, and their debt reached 1.188 million euros, with a net loss of 6770 million euros.

This terrible number pushed Dortmund into the endless abyss.

In order to reduce debt, the team entered the darkest period in history: selling people, performance declined, and revenue dropped sharply. They continued to sell people, performance continued to decline, and finances continued to deteriorate.

By February 2005, the German Football Association issued an ultimatum to Dortmund: if it continued to suffer huge losses, the team would be revoked from the Bundesliga and ordered to be relegated to the fifth tier.

The Bundesliga champions and UEFA Champions League champions back then had to struggle in the face of huge financial deficits in the new century.

They are very similar to those who have experienced the glory of the Ruhr mining area becoming the industrial center of Germany, and have witnessed the de-industrialization of Dortmund, and their lives have gradually been smoothed away, leaving only the vicissitudes of life.

At this time, Watzke, a business genius and a native of North Rhine-Westphalia, appeared.

In 2005, he had switched from financial director to CEO. In order to save Dortmund, he advocated selling the naming rights of the Westfalenstadion.

In this way, the club can receive 400 million euros in revenue every year.

Although this amount of money is still a drop in the bucket compared to the club's deficit, it is still profitable.

In the end, he took the lead in cooperating with Morgan Stanley Investment Bank and obtained a 15-year loan of 8000 million euros.

5100 million of which was used to repurchase 51% of the ownership of the stadium, greatly reducing the annual rent payment, while the rest was used to balance debt.

It’s just that according to the contract, the naming rights of the Westfalenstadion must be sold to Signal.Iduna Insurance Company from 2005 to 2021, so the name Iduna Signal Park Stadium came into being.

This name means the most painful period in Dortmund's history. Many fans still call this stadium the Westfalenstadion because Westfalen is like the name of their home.

In recent years, Dortmund's performance and operations have improved. Especially in 2012-2013, it began to compete with Bayern for hegemony. Dortmund seems to have passed through the darkness and ushered in the dawn of life.

Fans also began to use a new era method to cheer for Dortmund in the South Stand: homemade giant TIFO.

In the 2013 Champions League match against Malaga, the giant figure holding a telescope is still a classic in the hearts of fans;

When Klopp left office, Dortmund fans once played a TIFO to thank Klopp;

The manpower and material resources required were completed through spontaneous donations from South Stand fans and different fan organizations.

This is also the best surprise gift for Dortmund fans to the big family of Westphalia.

There is a popular saying at the Westfalenstadion, "We are born as Dortmundians and die as the elves of Dortmund."

Dortmund's South Stand carries people's tenacity and perseverance in life, and entrusts people's hopes and desires for life.

With the prevalence of consumerism and the wave of information technology, waiting in Westphalia is more like family members in the mining area lighting the lamp for the miners returning home at night.

The road home may be dark and long, but it always carries the warmth of family members.

The Westfalenstadt, yellow and black Dortmund, warms each other and is never alone.

(End of this chapter)