Huang Chengjun was late today. When he came to Moses Mabhida stadium, the match had already begun.
After watching the top ten match between China and Japan in Yokohama last February, Huang Chengjun packed up his bags and went back to his hometown where he had been away for seven years, where there was no three feet level and no three days clear. Back to adjust his mood for a few days, Huang Chengjun applied to go to a remote mountain primary school to support teaching, and stayed in peace with 18 children for more than a year.
Last week, the school had a summer vacation, and Huang Chengjun's teaching was over. He couldn't wait to fly to South Africa, holding tickets for the 18th game of the fourth World Cup.
There is not much salary for supporting teachers. Huang Chengjun's current expenses are basically the money he saved after working in Japan for seven years. That's not much, so he has to save some money. But the flower still needs to be spent. It's Huang Chengjun's dream to see Zhuoyang play in the world cup.
It's hard to get a ticket for the group match. In addition, it's become a high price for Chinese fans. Huang Chengjun didn't go to the party. The 18 children in the school didn't have a holiday, and he couldn't go away. But Huang Chengjun is a person who is good at analysis and thinking. He decided to book the tickets in advance by judging the group situation. Huang is confident that Zhuo Yang can make it to the last 16, but he is not arrogant. He is sure that China will get the second place in the group.
Because the situation of the rematch is not clear before the world cup, the tickets are not very popular, and it is always necessary to wait until all the powerful players fall. Huang Chengjun's accurate judgment saved him a lot of money, and the reasonable arrangement of the schedule in advance is just like his rigorous but bold character.
Huang Chengjun is not interested in South Africa. He is not a tourist either. Besides, he has heard about the poor social security of the country. So he has traveled thousands of miles this time just to watch the game. Come and see, and then go.
But Huang Chengjun is still late, which makes him helpless. But it's also hard to blame him for the chaos in many places of hosting the world cup in South Africa, which makes band's local villagers who like to hurt others and not benefit themselves find an opportunity to play tricks on Huang Chengjun.
The match was held at Moses Mabhida stadium, which has been settled since a year ago. It's written on the official World Cup website and on Huang's ticket. But when he arrived at Durban on time, he couldn't find the stadium.
Moses mahbuhida, it's obviously a personal name. This comprehensive stadium is specially built for this world cup, and its name is to commemorate the memory of Moses Mabhida, the former head of South Africa's ch'en party, sh'unji.
Comrade mahbuhida once led the masses of workers and peasants in South Africa in their arduous struggle against Apartheid and made outstanding contributions to national reconciliation in South Africa. He was deeply loved by the people of South Africa. Moses mahbuhida stadium is also one of the most beautiful and famous stadiums in Africa.
Less than a month before the start of the world cup, FIFA suddenly informed the Organizing Committee of South Africa that the venue of the world cup is not allowed to show names and brands that are not in FIFA's and this world cup sponsorship list. Your Moses Mabhida has to be changed.
So, Ellis Park stadium can be called Coca Cola, Port Elizabeth Bay stadium can be called Nelson Mandela, but Moses Mabhida can't be called Moses Mabhida. But the Durban people's diaphragm should be broken, but the arm can't bend the thigh, so it can only be called "Durban Stadium" for the time being.
As a result, all official publicity, advertisements, guides, road signs, etc. have been changed to new names.
Huang Chengjun had been doing teaching work in the mountains before, and he also wanted to appease 18 innocent children who were reluctant to part with him. He knew nothing about these rotten grains in South Africa thousands of miles away. After going down the mountain, he hurried and didn't check the information carefully. How could he have thought that FIFA would be so excited.
After arriving in Bande, the game will start in three hours, which is enough time for Huang Chengjun to arrive at the stadium. But when he asked the simple local villagers for directions, he got an extremely sincere answer: sorry, we don't have a football field called Moses mahbuhida.
At that moment, Huang Chengjun thought that he had crossed into a different world, or had encountered a miraculous event. Huang Chengjun tried to make his English pronunciation as standard as possible, but the answer was still very sincere and frank.
"No, not really. You must have made a mistake." It's sincere and concise, and there's not a single word of rubbish. I asked several local people in a row, and all the answers were the same.
The more narrow-minded and inner poor people are, the more they like to show superiority in front of outsiders. The more idiotic people are, the more they like to play tricks on people, because it will bring the satisfaction of drought to their poor brain. In this respect, China and foreign countries are the same, which is also regarded as the Great Harmony of the world.
Huang Chengjun saw the clue from the expression of these serious but unshielded Black faces. He didn't go to flirt with these local people. Although he was still in a trance about whether he got off the wrong plane, he still smiled and nodded away.
The whole city of Durban is decorated with lights because of the world cup. It's not difficult to find a stadium without asking for directions. Just follow the crowd of fans of all kinds. Huang Chengjun is behind the most crowd. This is a group of Dutch fans.The fans all over the world are one family. Huang Chengjun found a chance to chat with them and finally learned about the name change of the stadium from them, so he couldn't help being speechless to FIFA and the local people. Dutch fans warmly invited Huang Chengjun to go with them, and he readily agreed.
Huang Chengjun studied and worked in Japan for seven years. Naturally, Japanese is almost the same as that of Yokohama, but his English level is very general, better than jumping words. In the communication with Dutch fans who are not fluent in English, they half understood each other and half understood each other's mistakes. So Huang Chengjun followed them to the big screen of the square prepared by the Organizing Committee for the fans without tickets. In order not to cause excessive traffic congestion, the big screen and Moses mahbuhida stadium are separated at both ends of the city.
Finally, all the mistakes were made. Huang Chengjun, who was both laughing and crying, had to find a way to cross the whole city again, otherwise this trip would be in vain. Perhaps because of Rijkaard's relationship, the Dutch fans are very friendly to Huang Chengjun. A Rotterdam man with a big red beard volunteered to ride his own motorcycle to deliver him.
When he finally arrived at Moses mahbuheda, the game had begun. And when Huang Chengjun climbed up to his own stand, just as he looked at his head, there was a loud cheering around him.
In the 18th minute of the first half, the first goal appeared, which was scored by Arjen Robben. China is 1-0 behind.