Ringer and his sister talked while walking, and they were taken on the subway by their sister, and they didn't know where they were abducted. He is really not familiar with Madrid, it seems that Madridians are not familiar with him either, no one came to him on the subway to ask for an autograph, although there are not many people on the subway, but this is still a bit embarrassing, it seems that he needs to continue to perform.

"See the statue over there?"

After walking a little further from the "Bank of Spain Station" on Metro Line 2, the girl pointed to the statue in the square not far away and asked.

"Well, what kind of statue is that?"

"Statue of Poseidon, the god of the sea."

"Oh, I see, this is Poseidon Square."

"Yes, this is Poseidon Square, a mecca for Atletico Madrid fans."

After Ringer joined Atletico Madrid, he also heard of this Poseidon Square, every time the team won the championship, everyone would come to this Poseidon Square to celebrate with trophies at the end of the season, which is also the holy place in the hearts of Atletico Madrid fans.

Because the championship is celebrated in Poseidon Square, Atletico Madrid fans will also refer to themselves as the son of Poseidon.

"I don't think you play at Atletico Madrid and you can't be ignorant of Poseidon Square, so I should take you here to see it."

Ringer nodded, he had only heard of the name before, and he really didn't know anything else.

The two walked all the way towards Poseidon Square, and Ringer found that Poseidon Square was on the right side of the road, and on the left side of the road, there was also a square of about the same size, and there was also a statue on the square, but it was completely different from the Poseidon statue.

"What kind of statue is over there? Poseidon's wife? Ringer asked curiously.

That's why I thought that the statue across the road was obviously a female statue.

At this moment, a childish voice sounded: "Dad, look, is it Lin?" Isn't it? Is it really him? ”

Ringer looked back and saw that a little boy of five or six years old, with fair skin, blond hair, big eyes, very well-behaved and cute, was looking at him with a surprised face. The child's right hand is holding the index finger of a middle-aged man next to him, who should be the child's father.

Ringer thought to himself, after walking all this way, someone finally recognized me.

"Hello, I'm Ringer, nice to meet you." Ringer bowed his head and spoke to the boy in Spanish, which he was not very proficient with.

"Hello, Lin." The little boy seemed a little shy after being happy, and said with a squeak: "Uh~~~, Lin, can you give me an autograph?" ”

"Of course." Only then did Ringer notice that the boy was still wearing his No. 8 jersey and seemed to be his little fan, but he didn't have a pen with him.

Fortunately, the middle-aged man on the side handed him one, the child turned around, and Ringer signed his name on his back, and wrote both Ringer in Chinese and Lin goal in English.

"Hello, I'm Antonio Franco and this is my son Juan Franco. We went to Calderón the other day to watch you play, you scored twice against Barcelona and he's loved you ever since. This is the jersey I bought for him today at his request, and he wore it all day, and before he knew it, he just happened to meet you. ”

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Franco." Ringer shook Franco's hand, then stroked the child's blond hair and said, "Hello, little Juan." ”

"Lin, let's go sit over there, my dad has already dragged me a long way~~~" Little Juan quickly became familiar with himself, and wanted to pull Ringer to sit on a chair on the side.

Sitting on the side, little Juan chattered. It turned out that their father and son lived near Poseidon Square, and today Big Franco took little Juan out for a walk, children, after walking for a short while, they would feel very far away, and then asked to rest, and came to find a chair around here, and just happened to meet Ringer.

"Lin, did you just say that the statue on the other side is the wife of the god of the sea? If the guys next door heard it, they would be so angry that they would vomit blood~~~"

Antonio Franco is the kind of person who speaks calmly, neither fast nor slow, and speaks clearly, without the excitement of the average fan meeting a star.

Through Franco's words, Ringer knew that the square opposite was the Goddess of Harvest Square, and the statue opposite was the Goddess of Harvest statue.

Poseidon Square may not be known to many fans, but many people should have heard of the Goddess of Harvest Square, which is the place where Real Madrid celebrates winning the championship and is a holy place for Real Madrid fans. No wonder Franco would say that if the "man next door" heard Ringer say that it was the wife of the sea god, he would be so angry that he would vomit blood.

Ringer didn't expect that Real Madrid's Goddess of Harvest Square and Atletico Madrid's Poseidon Square were so close, on the left and right sides of a street.

"This place is actually the first east gate of the ancient city of Madrid~~~"

Franco walked slowly, and Ringer finally understood the origin of the two squares.

In the 18th century, during the Industrial Revolution in Europe, European countries were developing rapidly, and the city of Madrid was constantly expanding outward, so the ancient and useless East Gate was torn down and two wide squares were built here.

At that time, King Charles II of Spain loved art and statues, and he ordered people to build two huge statues based on the heroes of Greek mythology, which were erected in two squares, namely the statue of the god of the sea and the statue of the goddess of harvest.

These two statues, as well as the square, soon became the city's landmark.

At the beginning of the erection, the two statues were located in the north and south, looking at each other, the statue of the goddess of harvest was north of the highway and looking south, and the statue of the god of the sea was south of the highway and looking at the north.

After the development of professional football in Europe, there was a tradition of parades throughout the city to celebrate the championship.

In the 70s, Atletico Madrid reached their peak as a team, winning three La Liga titles, two Copa del Rey titles and reaching the Champions League final (to Bayern Munich, who dominated Europe at the time).

At that time, although Atletico Madrid was not worse than Real Madrid in terms of results, it was not as good as Real Madrid in the championship celebration parade, because Real Madrid's financial resources were not comparable to Atletico Madrid's at all, so Atletico Madrid fans had a unique idea to go to this Madrid landmark to celebrate, which was something that Real Madrid had never done.

The two statues in Madrid have always been the more popular Harvest Goddess statues, because the Harvest Goddess statues are better in terms of artistic ornamentation, etc., and Atletico Madrid fans naturally chose to celebrate their championship in the Harvest Goddess Square, which soon became a celebratory treasure for the Sheet Army.

At that time, Atletico fans often stayed up all night under the statue of the goddess of harvest, drinking and celebrating.

After years of celebration, the celebration of the Goddess of Harvest Plaza has become the most famous football celebration in Madrid.

However, in the 80s, Atletico Madrid began to fall into a financial crisis, the team became difficult, and even later in order to solve the financial difficulties, it had to sell the star Hugo Sanchez to Real Madrid.

At this time, Real Madrid has long been unhappy with Atletico Madrid's celebration of the Goddess of Harvest Square, they think that Real Madrid is the representative of Madrid football, but Madrid's most famous football celebration actually belongs to Atletico Madrid, which really makes them unhappy.

In the summer of 1986, the Melingers finally staged a coup d'état and robbed the Harvest Goddess Square.

At the World Cup in Mexico that year, Real Madrid's star Butragueno won the round of 16 in the fourth place, helping Spain eliminate Denmark led by Laudrup 5:1 to enter the quarterfinals. That night, Real Madrid fans gathered in the Harvest Goddess Square to cheer for the Spanish national team, chanting that Putragno should be elected Prime Minister of Spain, Real Madrid is the best team in Madrid, and took out the Real Madrid scarf around the neck of the Harvest statue.

At that time, it was the trough period of Atletico Madrid, and even the leading stars were sold to Real Madrid, and Atletico Madrid fans were indeed at a low ebb, some acquiesced in the other party's occupation of the Harvest Goddess Square, and some thought that the Harvest Goddess had been tarnished by Real Madrid.

Although there were several skirmishes between the two sides at that time, it could not prevent Real Madrid from occupying the Harvest Goddess Square.

Since then, Atletico fans have retreated to the south of Poseidon Square to celebrate around the not-so-beautiful statue of Poseidon. And the more beautiful statue of the goddess of harvest has since belonged to Real Madrid.

All this is the same situation as Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid in Madrid.

In order to reconcile the contradictions between the two sides, the Madrid city government made an adjustment and turned the two statues that were originally opposite each other to the west and the direction of the city center.

After hearing this, Ringer knew that there were so many stories in these two statues that were so close.

It has to be said that in Europe, every football club has its own heritage, and every football activity has its own history.

Football is a kind of culture.