prince's green

Chapter 161 Sea God Square
Linger and the girl chatted while walking, and were taken to the subway by the girl, who was abducted to nowhere.He is really not familiar with Madrid, and it seems that the people of Madrid are not familiar with him. No one came to ask for his autograph on the subway. Although there were not many people on the subway, it was still a bit embarrassing.

"See that statue over there?"

After getting out of the "Bank of Spain Station" on Metro Line 2, and walking for a while, the girl pointed to the statue on the square not far away and asked.

"Well, what statue is that?"

"A statue of Poseidon, the god of the sea."

"Oh, I see, this is Sea God Square."

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

After Ringer joined Atletico Madrid, he also heard about this Neptune Square. Whenever the team wins the championship, everyone will bring trophies to this Neptune Square to celebrate at the end of the season. This is the holy place in the hearts of Atletico Madrid fans.

Because the championship is celebrated in the Poseidon Square, Atletico Madrid fans will also call themselves the Son of Poseidon.

"I think you can't be ignorant of Piazza Neptune when you play at Atletico Madrid, so I should bring you here to see."

Ringer nodded. He had only heard of this name before, but he really didn't know anything else.

The two walked all the way to Poseidon Square. Ringer found that Poseidon Square is on the right side of the road, and on the left side of the road, there is also a square of similar size. There is also a statue on the square, but it is completely different from the Poseidon statue.

"What kind of statue is that over there? The wife of the sea god?" Linge asked curiously.

Because the statue across the road is obviously a female statue, so I think so.

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

Ringer looked back, and saw a five or six-year-old boy with fair skin, blond hair, and big eyes. He was very cute and cute, and was looking at him in surprise.The child is holding the index finger of a middle-aged man beside him with his right hand. The middle-aged man should be the child's father.

Ringer thought to himself, after walking so far, someone finally recognized me.

"Hi, I'm Ringer, nice to meet you." Ringer lowered his head and said to the little boy in his not-so-fluent Spanish.

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

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

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

"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 been there ever since. I fell in love with you. This is at his request, I just bought him the jersey today, he wears it all day long, and unexpectedly met you."

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

"Lin, let's sit over there, my father has already taken me a long way~~~" Little Juan soon became familiar with himself, and wanted to pull Ringer to sit on a chair beside him. .

Sitting on the side, little Juan chattered.It turned out that the father and son lived near the Neptune Square. Today, Big Franco took Juan out for a walk. As a child, after walking for a short distance, he felt that it was far away, and asked for a rest. He came here to find a chair. Just happened to meet Ringer.

"Lin, did you just say that the statue on the opposite side is the wife of the sea god? If the guys next door hear it, they will definitely vomit blood~~~"

Antonio Franco is the kind of person who speaks calmly, neither fast nor slow, speaks clearly, and does not have the excitement of ordinary fans seeing a star.

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

Poseidon Square may not be known to many fans, but Harvest Goddess Square should be heard by many people. It is the place where Real Madrid celebrates their championship and is a holy place for Real Madrid fans.No wonder Franco said that if the "people next door" heard Ringo say that she was the wife of Poseidon, they would vomit blood with anger.

Ringer did not expect that Real Madrid's Harvest Goddess Plaza and Atletico Madrid's Poseidon Plaza are so close, on the left and right sides of a street.

“This place was actually the east gate of the ancient city of Madrid~~~”

Franco spoke slowly, and only then did Ringer understand the origin of these two squares.

This location was originally the east gate of the ancient city of Madrid. In the 18th century, it coincided with the industrial revolution in Europe, and European countries were developing rapidly. The city of Madrid was also expanding outwards, so the ancient and useless east gate was abandoned. Pulled down, it was built into two wide squares.

At that time, King Charles II of Spain loved art and liked statues very much. According to the heroes in Greek mythology, he ordered people to build two huge statues in two squares, namely the statue of Poseidon and the statue of Harvest Goddess.

These two statues and the square soon became the landmarks of the city of Madrid.

At the beginning of its establishment, the two statues were located in the north and south, looking at each other. The statue of the Goddess of Harvest was on the north of the road, looking south, and the statue of Poseidon was on the south of the road, looking north.

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

In the 70s, Atletico Madrid entered the peak period of the team, won three La Liga titles, two Copa del Rey titles, and reached the Champions League final (losing to Bayern Munich, which dominated Europe at the time).

At that time, although Atletico Madrid was not inferior to Real Madrid in terms of performance, it was always inferior to Real Madrid in the championship celebration parade, because Real Madrid's financial resources were not comparable to Atletico Madrid, so Atletico Madrid fans thought of it uniquely, and came to this landmark building in Madrid. Celebrate, which is something Real Madrid has never done before.

Of these two statues in Madrid, the statue of the Goddess of Harvest has always been more popular, because the statue of the Goddess of Harvest is more artistic and ornamental. Of course, Atletico Madrid fans chose to celebrate their championship in the Goddess of Harvest Square, and the harvest will soon be Goddess Square became a celebratory gem for the Legion of the Sheets.

At that time, Atletico Madrid fans often stayed up all night under the statue of the Harvest Goddess, drinking and celebrating.

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

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

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

In the summer of 1986, the Meilingers finally launched a coup and took away the Harvest Goddess Square.

At the World Cup in Mexico that year, Real Madrid's star Butragueno scored four goals in the round of sixteen, helping Spain eliminate Laudrup's Denmark 5:1 and enter the quarter-finals.That night, Real Madrid fans gathered in the Harvest Square to cheer for the Spanish national team, and shouted that Butragueno should be elected as the Prime Minister of Spain, Real Madrid is the best team in Madrid, and took out the Real Madrid scarf around the Harvest Goddess on the neck of the statue.

At that time, it was the trough period of Atletico Madrid. Even the star players were sold to Real Madrid. Atletico Madrid fans were indeed at a low ebb. Some acquiesced that the opponent occupied the Harvest Plaza, and some thought that the Harvest Goddess had been tarnished by Real Madrid.

Although there were several small conflicts between the two sides at that time, it still could not prevent Real Madrid from occupying the Harvest Goddess Plaza.

Since then, Atletico Madrid fans have retreated to the Poseidon Square to the south, celebrating around the less beautiful Poseidon statue.And the more beautiful statue of the Harvest Goddess has since belonged to Real Madrid.

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

The coup d'état also made the fans of the two sides more antagonistic. In order to reconcile the contradictions between the two sides, the Madrid city government made adjustments and turned the two statues that were facing each other to the west, and looked at the city center together. direction.

After hearing this, Linge realized that there are so many stories in these two statues that are so close to each other.

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 more of a culture.

(End of this chapter)