Golden Greenery

Rigbet Lao Song, who was born in 1976 on the household registration book, stood in the starting lineup of Cameroon who were in their early 20s and looked green and dark, looking like a box of ashes covered with braids. If it weren't for the 37-year-old goalkeeper Soleimanu behind him, Lao Song would have felt like a walking coffin board.

However, when Soleimanu talks to Lao Song in private, he always calls out: Brother.

Song Fangling is 34. In the Chinese team’s starting lineup today, the three Lao Lis, Da Yu, Zi, and Da Tou, are only one year younger than Song. Plus the 30-year-old Zheng and Shao Jiayi, both 29 Even if the 33-year-old Sun Hai and Du Wei, Qu Bo and 33-year-old Sun Hai are suspended, the Chinese team's starting lineup will definitely be the oldest team in the top 32.

Fortunately, the Chinese team also has 25-year-old Zhuo Yang and Feng Xiaoting, 22-year-old Deng Shuoxiang and 21-year-old Wang Dalei. Even so, the Chinese team is also the team with the oldest average age in Group F, older than the aging Italy. Among the top 32 players, the average age of the Chinese team ranks third, second only to Australia and Brazil.

Cameroon is also third on the youth list, tied with North Korea. If we really want to argue, all the dark and tender Cameroonians should learn from Xiao Song and call all the opposing Chinese players: Uncle!

However, Chinese people are famous for their faces. Today, just looking at their faces, the fair and clean Chinese team is much more beautiful than the dark Cameroon.

Ellis Park is much larger than the Royal Bamford Stadium six days ago, with a capacity of 61,000. The most 120,000 people it filled in history was nine years ago, when 47 people were packed into the stadium that day. Ellis Park has never exceeded 60,000 since that day and the same is true today.

The Chinese fans in the stands today are not as unified as they were six days ago. After all, Cameroon, who is from Africa, has a greater sense of identity here, but the Chinese still occupy half of the stands in Ellis Park. However, Chinese fans followed the bad example of African black brothers.

Six days ago in Rustenburg, perhaps the trend had not spread to that small town, and perhaps the Chinese fans who dominated the stands were not too unfamiliar, so the sounds of singing, dancing, and cheering could be heard in the stands. But now, in Johannesburg, the trend has swept South Africa and the entire World Cup, and the devil who dominates the stands has appeared vuvuzelas.

One hooting is as loud as ten shouts, ten hootings are frightening, and a hundred hootings are soaring to the sky. Which arena doesn’t have tens of thousands of vuvuzelas?

The suona is known as the king of Chinese folk music instruments. As long as the suona sounds, other instruments must be silent. But it only takes one vuvuzela and ten suonas have to flee. This year in South Africa, people’s brains are boiling with noise.

Fans around the world watch the five major leagues and the Champions League on TV.

It was very interesting to hear many wonderful cheering songs and creative slogans. But when watching the World Cup in South Africa, all I could hear was ‘woo woo’. Many countries will directly cut off the live sound source when broadcasting.

The Chinese manufacturers of vuvuzelas are making a lot of money, but fans around the world hate them. Only local African fans love loudspeakers, because they do not have the ability to improvise songs and slogans. Being able to sing and dance is just a legend, and they do not have the team organization required to cheer neatly. And when the big trumpet is blown gently, all the slogans and songs will be wiped out. Why not save money and effort?

Including Chinese fans, fans from other countries did not want to use vuvuzelas at first, but all your shouts turned into mosquitoes in front of other people's loudspeakers, without even a trace of resistance. In desperation, they could only raise their hands in surrender and blow the trumpet together.

Starting this year, international mainstream sports venues can even allow firecrackers and fireworks to enter the venue, but vuvuzelas are always strictly guarded and will not let even a big speaker get in. They hate it to the core.

No matter how much the head coach likes to toss on the sidelines, he will always sit on the bench, because it is useless if you shout at the top of your lungs because you can't hear anything three meters away.

"Xiao Deng, please go in a little bit and leave the edge to Lao Shao."

"What? Captain, what did you say?"

"You, go in, collect, a, point!"

"What? Captain, please speak louder!"

"Isn't my fucking voice loud enough? I said you... forget it."

Zhuo Yang felt like there were 10 billion flies hovering over the court, buzzing, buzzing, buzzing.

Just one minute into the game, Eto'o almost gave the Chinese team a showdown. His breakthrough on the right wing was unstoppable. If Li and Li Weifeng hadn't joined forces to interfere with his shooting action at the last moment, Wang Dalei would have been unable to do anything.

After failing to score, Eto'o was not discouraged, but threw a provocative look at Zhuo Yang.

Eto'o's insinuations before the game not only ridiculed Zhuo Yang, but also despised the Chinese team. Everyone has heard about his conflicts with Zhuo Yang. Last night, Da Tou, Xiao Feng and Du Wei secretly came to see Zhuo Yang.

"Do you want us to mess with him? Lao Zhuo, just say a word."

For this reason, Zhuoyang emphasized at the pre-match meeting today: Everything is focused on the game. No one is allowed to target Eto'o without authorization. Focus all your energy on the game, for victory, and for the national team.

Those three people have good intentions, but Zhuo Yang is afraid that they will do bad things. These things are just like playing football, they require ability, and they are not good at it. Moreover, Zhuoyang himself didn't think about doing anything to Eto'o. The risk of cheating in the World Cup was too great. If he missed, it would be troublesome. The Chinese team couldn't afford it.

One minute later, two veterans, Li Jinyu and Lao Song, got entangled in the Cameroon penalty area and fell to their knees. Big Yu lay on the ground and desperately signaled for a foul penalty. Lao Song smiled kindly and said to Big Yu: "Don't mention Xiao Yu. Brother, Zhuo Yang and I are buddies, please don’t slander me."

Old Song and Da Yu are each other's meal today, but Da Yu has long forgotten all the poor French words he had when he studied abroad in France in his early years. He can't understand what Old Song is saying at all. Therefore, Lao Song regretted that he did not learn more Chinese from Zhuo Yang. He could only say "idiot" in a well-spoken way, but it was obviously inappropriate to say it today.

The Cameroonians are superior to the Chinese team in terms of physical flexibility and football skills, but the Chinese rely on courage and tenacity to deal with it, and today the Chinese team's tactics are more advanced and orderly, which makes the two sides evenly matched on the field.

Cameroon's three midfielders are all defensive, and their goal is to restrict Zhuo Yang. Xiao Song mainly defends his uncle Zhuo, and Macon and Matip assist in defense. When Jean Macon was playing for Lille, he went to Hannover and played in the UEFA Cup with Zhuo Yang's Madiburg. After the game, the Madiburg people got him drunk with wine, and Lao Song was among them.

Xiao Song and Ma Kong had a hard time defending Zhuo Yang, and head coach Legane was very surprised because he did not expect that the Chinese team would not show any weakness today and did not lose at all in the scene.

Mr. Legon's surprise lasted until the 40th minute of the first half.