George Rodriguez, a teacher of Latin literature at a local secondary school in Wolfsburg, is an American, and Americans are known for their lovelessness of football, but George Rodriguez is clearly an accident, he is a die-hard Wolfsburg fan.

Of course, before coming to Germany, or rather, to teach in Wolfsburg, Rodriguez had no interest in football, like millions of Americans. If you've ever been to the United States, you'll find that there's almost no football on TV. When you talk to an American about football, they will think you're talking about rugby after listening to it for a long time.

Soccer has long been neglected in the United States. Talking about the reasons for this, some people say that the process of football is mainly a process of offense being blocked, and for Americans who are used to watching basketball dunks and baseball home runs, the frustration when watching football is too strong. However, it is generally believed that Americans like fast-paced, multi-goal, high-scoring sports, such as basketball, rugby, ice hockey, baseball, etc.; in addition, Americans like sports that use both hands and feet and collide with limbs, such as rugby, basketball, ice hockey, etc.; Americans like sports with cool clothing, matching equipment, professional packaging, and high field requirements, such as rugby, ice hockey, baseball, golf, etc. However, it seems that there is no definite conclusion as to the reasons for the lack of development of football in the United States.

After George Rodriguez came to Germany, he was a little puzzled to see the Germans' enthusiasm for football, and then he investigated the current situation in Europe and was surprised to find that football is worthy of being the number one sport in the world, and almost every family has at least one football fan.

This surprised Rodriguez, and then he asked why football was so popular in Europe, almost in most parts of the world, only in the United States that it was given a cold reception.

Rodriguez did his research and wrote a story like no other, which was also published on FIFA's official website.

Rodriguez believes that in the United States, the status of football is not as good as that of ice hockey, and only women's football still has some market. There's a reason for that, soccer has always been an amateur sport in mainstream American culture, and an amateur sport for middle-class kids in the suburbs. The U.S. Soccer Association has organized a lot of teams among suburban children, especially little girls, because baseball, basketball, and football are all traditional sports for boys, and it is difficult to change this situation, so little girls are easy to choose to play football, which is one of the reasons why women's soccer in the United States is higher than men's. But is women's soccer really that good? At least not that good in professional games. This kind of American-style suburban football has a purely amateur nature, and when it comes to college, there is no league, so children play and throw it away.

I'm afraid that Rodriguez, a pure American, would never have imagined that after coming to Wolfsburg, he would be fanatically obsessed with football.

What really brought Rodriguez into football, and his interest in football, came from the love that the Wolfsburg fans had for this team. For such a team that needs to fight for relegation almost every year, the fans will not leave, and the attendance rate in the stands of Wolfsburg's home stadium Volkswagen Arena can reach at least 80% or more, which is quite remarkable in Rodriguez's opinion, and then, he went to investigate carefully, only to find that Wolfsburg's 62-year history is not in the top league for the vast majority of the time, and that's it, these fans are still enthusiastic about supporting the team. Why is football so attractive?

In the 2005/2006 season, Wolfsburg did not survive relegation until the final round. That game was a direct meeting between Wolfsburg and Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern are one point less than Wolfsburg, and one of the two teams is destined to be relegated, if Kaiserslautern can beat Wolfsburg, then Wolfsburg will be relegated.

The final game was 2-2, and until the final moments of the game, Kaiserslautern, who was not willing to give up, was still launching a tidal wave of attacks on the Wolfsburg goal. It seems that Wolfsburg could concede a goal at any time, and if they do, Wolfsburg will fall into the abyss of the second division. When the referee blew the whistle for the end of the game and the score was set at 2-2, the whole Wolfsburg city was in a state of flux, their team was relegated, and next season they will still be able to cheer for their team and be happy that their team is still alive in the top flight.

At the time, Rodriguez was watching the game at the 'Little Mushroom' bar in Heynckes, before this game, he was not a fan, after this game, he became a fan, a Wolfsburg fan. When the game was over, when he saw the gray-haired Heynckes crying excitedly, he was deeply touched and fell in love with such a team and such a sport.

Today, he is a staunch and avid Wolfsburg fan, and although he has been a Wolfsburg fan for less than a year, he considers himself the one who loves the team the most, just like any other Wolfsburg fan.

However, in the eyes of Rodriguez's wife, Alainia, her husband seems to have become different from before, and this change overwhelms her. When Rodriguez was in school on weekdays, he was a polite teacher, always smiling, and it was impossible to get involved with Rodriguez when he was fighting or arguing with others, and when he was at home, Rodriguez was also a good husband and a good father, but there was one exception, that is, after the loss of Wolfsburg. Every time Rodriguez comes back from the pitch, if he has an ugly face and a fierce look, it means that Wolfsburg lost.

And given the strength of Wolfsburg, we can fully imagine that three weeks in Rodriguez's home were spent in such a discordant atmosphere for almost four weekends a month.

Therefore, it is conceivable how much Rodriguez's wife Alenia does not understand and hates the sport of football, she thinks that football has changed her husband and caused conflicts in the family.

On this day, Rodriguez checked his "equipment" for the evening game over and over again in his room, while his wife watched from the sidelines. She was too worried, worried that after the team lost, her husband would bring back the unpleasant love. In a way, Mrs. Rodriguez Alenia is even more eager than her husband to win in Wolfsburg, so that the family can have a good weekend.

Rodriguez, of course, didn't know what his wife was thinking, so he came up and hugged his wife Alenia, "Honey, good luck to me and the team." ”

"Good luck, dear. ”

Watching her husband drive away, Alania shook her head with a wry smile, she even felt that her husband had come to Germany to work, which in itself was a huge mistake.

At this moment, with a screeching sound of brakes, Alania rushed out of the room in horror, saw her husband back again, got out of the car, hurried back to the room, took a thing and left.

"What's that?" asked Alania, not expecting her husband to stop and answer, for there was nothing more important than him watching.

"Young, the new hero of Wolfsburg, I prefer to call him a prince. Unexpectedly, Rodriguez stopped and unfolded what was in his hand, it was a caricature, a caricature of a player.

"Prince?"

"That's right, you know? My dear, our last three games, two wins and one draw, all rely on his wonderful performance! I believe that today Yang will continue to be as good as ever. ”

Hearing her husband say this, thinking that in the past two weeks, after the game, her husband has indeed happily returned from the court, these two weeks have also made Alania very happy. Alania looked at the cartoon portrait and suddenly felt that the young man in the cartoon was quite good. This was the first time she had a good impression of a player.

Rodriguez drove to the club's Little Mushroom bar, where the fan leader, Heynckes, met with the fans who were watching the game, and then headed to the Volkswagen Arena.

Heynckes was old, hadn't been to the stadium for several years, and for these old people, the noisy and excessive pitch was the enemy of their lives and health. Every match day, the old man would use a radio to get up close and personal with his team. Even though the game was playing on the TV in the bar and the commentator was commentating, the old man felt that there was something missing without the sound of the game broadcast on the radio.

This old man named Heynckes is the bar owner who had enlightened Yang Fan before.

Just as Rodriguez and his old buddies were heading towards the Volkswagen Arena together, Yang Fan and the others had just come out of the 'Wolfsburg Hotel' where they were staying, and in the click of the reporters waiting outside the hotel, they got on the team bus and began to march towards the Volkswagen Arena.

"This is the entrance to the Volkswagen Arena, and at this point, there is already a long queue and fans are waiting to get in. That's what happened on the spot. "A reporter was struggling to shout that he had to do it, otherwise his voice would not reach the audience, because the scene was so noisy.

This Wolfsburg home match with Schalke 04, one is the 'dark horse' who has changed its face in recent games, and the other is the league leader, such a matchup is very eye-catching, so the German national TV decided to broadcast this game live to the whole country.