In fact, many people, whether they were fans at the scene or in front of the TV, did not hear the three whistles.
Including He Feng, he didn't hear it either.
But it doesn't matter, after Yao Huasheng pushed the football out, everyone's eyes fell on the referee in yellow.
Seeing him raising his hands and pointing forward, the cheers at the scene almost doubled!
He Feng also shouted: "The game is over! The game is over!!! Qualified! We qualified!!"
His voice ignited the passion of all the fans in front of the TV.
At this moment, cheers resounded everywhere in China.
Someone in the bar spilled the beer in the cup, and more people imitated him and spilled the beer into the air, as if giving the people in the bar a "golden rain."
This scene appears in countless bars large and small across the country.
In "Rain" Yan Yan hugged Chu Yifan, closed his eyes and shouted: "We are going to the World Cup! We are going to the World Cup!!"
In the squares of every city, people under the big screen hugged each other with love, hugging people they knew and didn't know. Couples kissed passionately, and friends had tears in their eyes.
In the living rooms of thousands of households, countless people roared with excitement.
Li Ziqiang finally heard the noise coming from next door, including a woman's scream and a man's roar.
He actually wanted to roar, but in the end he just shook his fist at the TV screen.
Then he heard a burst of dense firecrackers in the distance, like a burst of rolling thunder in the dark night!
Then, as agreed upon, there were dense sounds of firecrackers coming from other directions, and fireworks soared into the sky and bloomed in the night sky.
Li Ziqiang turned to look at the lively scene outside the balcony of the living room, and couldn't help but think that at this time, in countless cities like Dongchuan where fireworks and firecrackers are not prohibited, scenes that only occur during the New Year would be staged...
But in fact, in cities where ignition and discharge are prohibited, there are still people who light up fireworks excitedly.
Ten thousand firecrackers, thirty thousand firecrackers, fifty thousand firecrackers... One hundred thousand firecrackers were spread on the ground, and the fuses were lit. Along with the flash of thunder and thunder, the land of China turned red!
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In the square outside the Lotus Stadium, many people gathered before the game started. Because these people did not have tickets, they could not enter the stadium to watch the game. However, they did not leave as the game started, but continued to stay.
Outside the stadium.
Listening to the various sounds coming from inside, they felt as if they were watching a game live.
Later, as the end of the game approached, more and more people gathered here. Many of them were not even fans. They wore ordinary home clothes and brought their families, just like taking a walk after dinner, to the Lotus Stadium.
Outside.
Many vendors tried their best to sell small flags to them. Before the competition, they cost ten yuan each, but now they only cost two yuan.
"Dad! I want the national flag!" A child pointed to the national flag in the vendor's hand and said to the man holding him.
It was obvious that the middle-aged man who lived a prudent life took one look at the national flag on the vendor's car, shook his head and said, "Wait a minute, maybe I can buy it for one dollar in a while..."
"Two yuan is the lowest price... I will lose money on one yuan!" Hearing his words, the vendor complained with a grimace. "Two yuan is the price of a bottle of mineral water. Boss, you are short of these two yuan."
Money?”
"Two dollars is not money anymore?" the middle-aged man said firmly, without changing his mind.
At this moment, the loudest cheers of the entire game came over the wall from the stadium to outside.
Then someone shouted in the crowd: "The game is over! We won! We qualified!"
When the vendor who was haggling with the middle-aged man just now heard the news, he immediately pulled out two small flags from the car and stuffed them into the hands of the man opposite: "Take them!"
The man was stunned for a moment and asked reflexively: "Hey, how much does it cost..."
"No money!" The vendor waved his hand and turned around to find someone else to give him the flag.
The man looked at the back of the vendor, then looked down at the national flag in his hand. Then he noticed the child's expectant and excited eyes. He smiled, separated one of the flags in his hand and handed it to the child: "Here!"
The child held the national flag and waved it and asked: "Dad, are we going to the World Cup?"
"Well, we are going to the World Cup!" The man looked up at the brightly lit Lotus Stadium.
This stadium that he complained about countless times has now become extremely beautiful in his eyes.
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On this night, those who were able to enter the Lotus Stadium were undoubtedly the happiest, because they witnessed history with their own eyes at the place closest to history, and at the same time became a part of history.
Their cheers at the end of the game were like blowing the trumpet of victory and quickly spread throughout China.
Yong Jun stood in the box, looking at the cheering Chinese fans in the stands around him, and remembered what Hu Lai had said to him.
"...When we really enter the World Cup, I guarantee that all the streets and alleys in our country will be a sea of joy..."
You are right, the Hu Lai Lotus Stadium has become a sea of joy...
Wherever he could see, people in the stands were cheering, jumping for joy, and waving their arms. There were several five-star red flags being waved vigorously on the north and south stands, creating a scene of "rolling red flags."
Yong Jun has also watched many Chinese football games, and some of them won, such as last year's U23 Asian Cup finals and the Olympic Games. The most recent one was the match where the Chinese team defeated the South Korean team at home in the top 12...
Some games he was present, some games he was not present. But whether he was there or not, he could still feel the joy that victory brought to people, and that kind of scene could still make him moved.
But today he discovered that none of the games he had watched before were comparable to today's game.
This is not just as simple as us winning a game, but the emotions that have been accumulated for 64 years have been released!
The Chinese players on the field had already draped themselves in national flags and were running wildly, hugging and celebrating.
An old captain like Yao Huasheng cried in front of so many media cameras. Later, he simply covered his whole body with the national flag, as if he didn't want to show his "vulnerable" side to the public.
Almost every Chinese team player will be surrounded by a group of reporters with cameras, filming and recording their reactions after reaching the World Cup finals.
Lin Zhiyuan also cried, but he did not cover it up with a red flag like his captain. Instead, he cried in front of the camera and shouted: "I proved myself! I did not let you down!"
Wang Guangwei came up and hugged him. Because of the penalty kick he saved during the game, Wang Guangwei came specifically to express his gratitude to him.
Reporters gathered around them and took a photo that would become widely circulated in the future.
Zhang Qinghuan did not raise his arms and shout, but looked up at the sky. In the night sky illuminated red by the lights, he seemed to see that familiar face, smiling at him.
So he also laughed.
"What are you looking at, Brother Huan?" Chen Xingyi's curious voice sounded next to him.
Zhang Qinghuan kept looking up at the sky and said to Chen Xingyi: "Look up at the stars."
Chen Xingyi raised his head strangely and looked at the red night sky: "The light pollution is so serious, you can see the stars in the sky!"
"That's because you are blind. Didn't you see the obvious Orion?"
Chen Xingyi raised his eyes and stared hard at the night sky pointed by Zhang Qinghuan. His eyes were almost dazzled, but he didn't notice: "Brother Huan, are you blind? Where did Orion come from..."
He turned around and found that Zhang Qinghuan was no longer around him, and the latter had already joined the celebrating crowd.
"Fuck, Brother Huan, wait for me!" Chen Xingyi opened his arms and ran towards the group of figures.
Luo Kai supported his club captain Hao De and joined the celebrating crowd.
As one of the biggest contributors to the team's victory, Hu Lai, who scored twice in this game, was surrounded by the most media.
He was almost surrounded by a "camera matrix". The reporters didn't ask any questions and just recorded Hu Lai's every move, word and deed.
Facing the camera, Hu Lai kept waving the five-star red flag in his hand and repeated loudly: "We are coming to the World Cup! We are coming to the World Cup!!"
Wang Shanshan saw him like this outside the crowd, and for some reason, a metaphor came to mind:
Just like a child going to the amusement park...
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The eliminated Paraguayan players had already packed their bags and left the locker room.
When they took the bus back to their hotel, they encountered a little trouble because there were so many excited Chinese fans outside the Lotus Stadium that their bus could hardly move.
The Paraguayan players sitting in the carriage looked at the excitement of the Chinese fans and were speechless. This scene should have happened to Paraguayan fans.
They failed to bring joy to the people of their country, and they failed to live up to everyone's expectations.
Even if they united in an unprecedented way and the two giants shook hands in front of the media... it still could not change the result that Paraguay missed the World Cup finals.
Some of their hopes of playing in the World Cup finals for the last time were dashed.
The bus was extremely quiet, as if it was not carrying dozens of living people, but dozens of corpses.
At this moment, a song suddenly came from outside, penetrated the seal of the glass window, and was transmitted into the quiet car.
The Paraguayan players couldn't understand the lyrics, but they could feel the emotion in the singing.
In the songs of joy and pride, the Chinese fans finally made way for the Paraguayan bus, and the bus accelerated away from this place that made all Paraguayans feel sad.
In the last row of seats on the bus, Sosa, who missed a penalty kick in the game, wrapped the team's jacket around his head and huddled into the darkness.
Arce, who was in the front row of the car, kept turning his head and looking out the window, as if he wanted to remember the celebration of a country's entry into the World Cup.
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When the Chinese players finally gathered together and began to circle the field to thank the Chinese fans in the stands who fought with them to the end, a familiar prelude sounded from the loudspeaker of the Lotus Stadium.
Just hearing the prelude, the fans at the scene burst into cheers again.
Soon a chorus rang out in the stadium:
"The five-star red flag is flying in the wind!"
"How loud the victory song is!!"
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The singing floated over the towering outer wall of the stadium and reached the square outside the stadium. The fans gathered there also sang in unison. In the singing, they watched Paraguay leave:
"Sing our dear motherland!"
"From now on we will be prosperous!!!"
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The singing is transmitted to thousands of households through satellite signals. Whether they are watching the live broadcast of the game through TVs, large projection screens, mobile phones, computers... or other ways, as long as they hear the singing in the live broadcast, they all sing along:
"Over the mountains! Over the plains!"
“Cross the rushing Yellow River and Yangtze River!!”
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The song crosses the mountains, the plains, the rushing Yellow River and the Yangtze River, and circulates everywhere in Kyushu.
Cars filled the streets and alleys, with five-star red flags sticking out of the car windows, pairs of arms waving excitedly, loudspeakers blaring, and people inside and outside singing along:
"A vast and beautiful land!"
"This is our dear hometown!!"
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The dormitory buildings of the university were brightly lit, and all the students crowded into the corridors, singing in harmony with their classmates in the neighboring dormitory buildings in the distance across the night.
In the commercial pedestrian street that is usually crowded with people, it seems that a "flash mob" activity is taking place. Everyone gathers under the big screen on the outer wall of the building, holding up their mobile phones with the flash turned on, and singing together with the fans at the Lotus Stadium in the screen.
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"The heroic people stand up!"
"Our unity and friendship are as strong as steel!!"
"The five-star red flag is flying in the wind!"
"How loud the victory song is!!"
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The singing voice is loud and clear, and can be sung all over China.
Just like the golden rooster croaking the dawn, its sound shakes the world.
This night, the whole country stayed awake and China celebrated together!