Chapter 271: The Galatasaray Man Who Died
The Bosphorus, which is strategically located, divides Istanbul in two and divides Turkey into two parts, Asia and Europe.
The 1,560-meter-long Bosphorus Bridge is one of the most famous bridges in the world because it connects the Eurasian continent and will delight every visitor to Istanbul. Although the scenery at the other end of the bridge is the same, the culture is much the same. But the strait, which takes only two or three minutes to drive to Guò, is actually a barrier between two teams that have been enemies of each other for more than a hundred years: Fenerbahce and Galatasalej. The two great powers that divide the world equally in Turkish football are divided across the Bosphorus.
On 4 May 2002, Galatasaray won the Turkish league for the 15th time, surpassing Fenerbahce (14) in the number of league titles. Fenerbahçe's home base is located on the Asian continent on the eastern side of the strait, where Galatasalej's football 'fans' are only a minority. However, there was one Galatasaray fan who hung a yellow and red flag outside his window to celebrate the Galatasalei team's victory.
"What's the matter with this guy? Kill him! Or get out of here!" Amid the rain of stones and threats from Fenerbahce's ball 'fan', the Galatasaray ball 'fan' resisted for an hour before he was rescued from his home by the police with a bruise. This shows the madness of Turkish football 'fans'.
The following story is even more bizarre, but it has long been known in the local news circle. It turned out that the 19th of July was the peak period for Fenerbahce fans to have children, because it was on this day in 1907 that the club was founded. According to this date, many faithful Fenerbahce 'fans' and wives have already calculated the time of pregnancy. "No, our newspaper has a special 'door' to confirm and report on this, and I have taken pictures." And later we also found out that the child of the former president of Fenerbahce Club was also born on this day. A photojournalist from a local media outlet has to face and answer this question almost every day.
In May 2000, Galatasaray FC made a European comeback, winning the UEFA Cup after beating Arsenal. Galatasaray ball fans have been partying all night long, and some ball fans have jumped off the Bosphorus Bridge to celebrate the victory!
From these examples, everyone should be able to understand what kind of atmosphere Galatasaray has at home.
Any team from the rest of Europe will feel a lot of pressure when they come to Turkey, and if the mentality is even worse, the whole team will be sleepwalking, and even the top European team will be a little afraid to travel to Turkey.
That is, Yang Fan, the ignorant are fearless, and he also thinks that Galatasaray's strength is average, and he is a relatively easy opponent to deal with
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Ataturk International Airport, the international airport of Istanbul, the capital of Turkey, was formerly known as Istanbul Capital Airport, which was completed in 1924 and is located in Yehirköy (V) on the European part of Istanbul city, 24 kilometers from the city center. In 1980, it was renamed Ataturk International Airport in honor of Mustafa Kemal, the founder and first president of the Turkish Republic, Ataturk.
Two days before Valentine's Day in 2008, Yang Fan and his teammates landed at Ataturk International Airport on their flight.
"I'll say it again. Before getting off the plane, Wolfsburg coach Magath also warned his players one last time, "Everyone must act with the whole team and absolutely no going out." ”
Obviously, Magath as head coach knows a lot more about the difficulties of the road trip to Turkey than his disciples.
"It's not as exaggerated as the coach said. Yang Fan thinks Magath is alarmist, the coach forbids the players to go out, which makes him a little depressed, and he plans to go out for a good stroll, Istanbul is a city across the Eurasian continent, is a historical city, a famous tourist city, he has been famous for a long time.
"Yes, I'm going to see the enthusiasm of Turkish beauties. Boateng also said.
Yang Fan nodded approvingly, and heard the head coach call his name.
"Young!" Magath said, "especially you, don't go out, don't cause trouble, and don't come into contact with the ball fans." [Lots of good novels]"
"Aren't Wolfsburg's 'fans' good?" Yang Fan asked.
"No, you're honest with me. Magath said.
Yang Fan stopped talking, although he was still a little disappreciative in his heart, but, seeing the head coach like this~ as if he was facing a great enemy, he was a little curious, is the away trip in Istanbul really so terrifying? !
"Istanbul, we're coming!" Yang Fan stretched out and shouted happily after stepping off the plane, and then he saw the head coach glaring at him and immediately shut up.
Wolfsburg's participation in the UEFA Cup this season is the team's first European trip in history, and this away match with Galatasaray in the one-sixteenth knockout round is the first European knockout trip in Wolfsburg's history, so Wolfsburg's football 'fans' are very excited, and at least nearly 300 Wolfsburg football 'fans' have also come to Istanbul.
They arrived in the city before the team, and at this time, they were gathered in the reception hall of Ataturk, waiting for the arrival of the players.
"When the boys arrived, everyone was 'refreshed' and let the Turks see the momentum of our Wolfsburg. "A leader of the Wolfsburg 'fans' shouted.
"Don't worry, Thomas. ”
"We are Wolfsburg! Of course, the Turks will not underestimate us. ”
"Hey, look over there. "There was a ball 'fan' who pointed in one direction, and everyone turned their heads to look and saw a lot of people coming over there.
These people are wearing yellow and red 'fans', which are Galatasaray's home jerseys! When Galatasaray Club was founded in 1905, the club's color used red and white, and then yellow and black, but it was finally decided to use red and yellow as the club's representative colors. As early as 1908, Galatasaray players wore red and yellow jerseys during the Galatasaray team's match against the British Royal Army.
There is also a famous story about the 'color' of this club. In this story, Galatasaray FC's red and yellow 'color' triumphs over the world's largest chain, McDonald's, and the latter is pressured to change his appearance.
& letters, which have become a symbol of McDonald's. However, in Istanbul, Turkey, there is the only McDonald's chain in the world that uses a black background and white 'color' M as a sign. This is not a cod camper of the chain store who wants to be ingenious, but a helpless move made under the strong pressure of the ball 'fan'. In 2001, McDonald's signed a sponsorship contract with the Turkish club Besiktas to open a branch outside of Besiktas's home stadium. McDonald's was counting on the sponsorship contract to attract many Besiktas football 'fans' to visit our store during the football time, but they never thought that they were coldly greeted by the team's football 'fans', not only the business was cold, but the window glass was often smashed by some people.
This is the case of Besiktas's rivals, Galatasaray's fans, whose jersey is red and yellow, so McDonald's signature is inadvertently taboo. Not only did the Besiktas ball 'fans' not buy it, but the Galatasaray ball 'fans' even thought that they dared to use the noble red and yellow 'colors' on Besiktas's turf, which was intolerable to the Galatasaray ball 'fans'.
So, after cleaning the glass ballast several times, the owner of the McDonald's branch asked the headquarters to change the color of the sign, and the McDonald's signboard finally had a "black and white photo".
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Well, to get down to business.
The Wolfsburg football 'fans' immediately recognized these people as Galatasaray football 'fans', and they immediately talked about what these Galatasaray people were doing here? How could it be!
This must be a bad comer!
Thomas, the leader of Wolfsburg's 'fans', immediately became nervous and reminded his companions, "Everyone, pay attention, the Turks are coming." ”
"Let's not provoke them, but we're not afraid of them. ”
"Don't be afraid, sir, I was just about to teach the Turks a lesson. "A Wolfsburg ball 'fan' said.
"Shut up. Thomas shouted angrily, he is in his forties, long past the age of stunned youth, for him, the most important thing is to bring these football 'fans' safely to the away stadium and bring them back to Germany safely
The ball 'fans' of the two sides confronted each other like this, and there was no 'aggressive' action on either side, and it seemed that there would be no problems, which also made the security personnel at Ataturk Airport breathe a sigh of relief. Together, it looks pretty normal.
It was at this time that the figure of the Wolfsburg player appeared.
The Wolfsburg fans immediately cheered loudly, shouting the names of their heroes and cheering them on.
"Long live Wolfsburg!"
"Yang, you must score tomorrow!"
"Wolfsburg forward!"
Almost without warning, the Turks, who had been silent, broke out, and they began to greet these guests who had come from afar.
"Germans, get out!"
"Wolfsburgers, wait to be killed!"
And Yang Fan, as the most famous and threatening player in Wolfsburg, is naturally the object of the Istal people's key care, so these Galatasaray ball 'fans' scold him the loudest and scold him the most.
"I'm going to 'fuck' your asshole!" Chinese!"
"Yang, you're a coward!"
"Oooo
"Die, Chinese Yankees, you are not welcome in Turkey!"
"Despicable Chinese! We will treat you well!"
"Kill the Chinese!"
"Long live xx!"
Some Galatasaray fans are still shouting slogans to undermine China's reunification, but in fact, many people in Turkey support the terrorist activities carried out by East Turkistan terrorists in China, and Turkey has always been one of the overseas strongholds of East Turkistan terrorists. When the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay passed through Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, about 200 "East Turkistan" elements gathered at the starting point of the torch relay, holding "East Turkistan" flags, shouting slogans such as "XX independence", and some even tried to snatch the torch. There is certainly no shortage of such scum hooligans among these Galatasaray ball 'fans'.
Therefore, Yang Fan, as the number one star of Wolfsburg, is a Chinese identity, and has also become the target and target of these extreme Turkish football 'fans'.
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The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense.
Yang Fan couldn't understand the language shouted by these Turks, but of course he couldn't see the hideous faces of these people and the raised middle fingers.
However, for these, Yang Fan was already surprised, he didn't pay attention to it at all, and Bao Zhi also said to his partner Dzeko next to him, "Come here again, they think this will scare us." ”
When he said this, the corners of Yang Fan's mouth 'revealed' a disdainful and uncaring smile, which seemed to 'provoke' Galatasaray's ball 'fans' even more, and their movement was even greater, and some ball 'fans' even tried to pounce and impact the Wolfsburg players.
The security personnel at the airport were obviously half a beat slower to react, and when they saw that these people were about to rush over, at this time, Wolfsburg's ball 'fans' rushed over to protect their players.
There was a clash between the two ball 'fans', and some people scuffled together. The scene was a mess.
Damn! Seeing that a Wolfburg Ball 'fan' was kicked to the ground by the Galatasaray Ball 'fan', Yang Fan immediately became furious, and he was about to rush over with a scream.
"Stop him!"
"Hold him!"
Wolfsburg's head coach Magath had been prepared for this for a long time, and he was worried that this stunned young man would not be able to control his temper, so he and his assistant Kostner went up and hugged Yang Fan, and yelled at this kid, "Calm down!
"Hurry up, get out of here!!"
At the urging and protection of the stadium security staff, the Wolfsburg players walked through the hall and boarded the bus that had been waiting for a long time. Although some people are worried about the safety of those 'fans', as athletes, they can't go up to fight, they can only leave first.
"Hell, let go of me. Yang Fan shouted, "We left like this, what should we do with the ball 'fan'?"
"Shut up, the ball 'fans' have the police to protect, we think it's a good game!"
"Then we can't leave the ball 'fan' over there!" Yang Fan said with a stiff neck.
"Coach, I think Yang is right. "Captain Madelen also stood up and expressed support for Yang Fan's words, and they were also worried about those 'fans'.
Magath thought about it for a while, and asked the team leader to immediately call the German ambassador in Istanbul, so that he could come forward and protect the safety of the Wolfsburg football 'fans' who came to Istanbul as much as possible.
That's all they can do. There was nothing they could do about anything else.
"Damn it!" Yang Fan, who was sitting in the seat, scolded depressedly.
His mood is really bad, his yearning for the historical city of Istanbul, and his yearning for Turkish babes are long gone, and there is only unhappiness and anger.
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On the way to the hotel, the team leader of Wolfsburg received a call from the German embassy in Istanbul, the clash between the two sides of the ball 'fans' at Ataturk airport has been stopped, two Wolfsburg ball 'fans' were injured, one of them was stabbed by the Turk, the injury was more serious, and has been taken to the hospital for treatment.
Hearing the news, the atmosphere on the bus in Wolfsburg became even more depressing.
On the way before they came, the manager and the club had been saying that this away game was dangerous and asked them to pay attention, but young people like Yang Fan didn't pay much attention to it, and they didn't have anything to worry about this road trip. I didn't think it was any different from other road trips.
However, now, just when they came out of the airport, they encountered such an incident, and immediately made them realize that this trip to Istanbul was different.
It's really dangerous here!
The bus slowly stopped at the 'door' of a hotel.
"Get off the bus quickly, get into the hotel quickly, no one delays. Assistant coach Costner shouted.
The players got out of the car, the team was silent, and they walked towards the 'door' of the hotel.
"Hey, Germans! Look this way!" shouted several people in German, from a van that had been parked near the hotel.
All Wolfsburg people, including Yang Fan, subconsciously looked over.
Then they saw a black thing thrown over!
"It's a grenade!"
"Oh oh
Looking at the thing rolling on the ground and still smoking, someone immediately recognized it and shouted loudly.
"Hell!"
"Get down!"
Everyone froze, and the cold sweat on their bodies brushed down. Nima, are you sure this is Istanbul in Turkey, not Iraq or Afghanistan?!
"Ah, Mom, I don't want to die!" Marin, the youngest member of the team, who was less than nineteen years old, cried in fright and stood there crying.
"Stupid!" Marin was then rushed by a man and threw himself to the ground.
It was Yang Fan, he was the closest to Ma Lin, he didn't hesitate, he came up and rolled on a donkey, holding Ma Lin, and rolled on the ground very wolfly. Silence! Deathly silence! Everyone, including the coaches and players, in Wolfsburg, was silent! Half a minute passed, and the black grenade-like thing had not exploded, and not only that, but the smoke had gradually dissipated! Fake? Fake grenade? "Aha!" "Hahahaha!" "Germans, Germans who are afraid of death!" "Hahaha, the appearance of that Chinese just now is really embarrassing!" At this time, they heard the Turks shouting loudly in German and laughing unscrupulously, and more importantly, at this time, these whole people seemed to have just walked back from the edge of death, and the Wolfsburg players who were here noticed that over there, there were still people holding cameras and clicking to take pictures!
They were teased!
Everyone understood at once!
This is how the Turks are insulting and playing with them!
The people of Galatasaray, who had died, tried to humiliate Yang Fan and his teammates in the way they thought they were most proud. Bring the pea pods, the little red 'chicken' charm, the intentional little music 'chicken' beast mentor