Club World Cup | Leisure Note: At a height of 10,000 meters, the cabin suddenly became boiling

Xinhua News Agency, Seattle, June 24 (Reporters Yu Xiaozhong, Wang Haoming, Xiao Shiyao) At noon on the 24th, Flight UA2279 from Los Angeles to Seattle was cruising at a height of 10,000 meters. Suddenly, some passenger shouted in Spanish. Before the reporter could react, many people began to cheer, and cheerful singing immediately rang in the cabin, one, two, five or six, and soon almost half of the passengers in the cabin were singing.

A young man sitting next to the reporter was also singing. Before he could finish singing, the reporter asked, "What song did you sing? Why did you sing?"

"We sang the song from the riverbed because the Boca youth is going to be eliminated."

The young man was named Jose, who was 19 years old and became a sophomore. This time he and his father went to the United States to support his team. There were dozens of Riverbed fans on this flight. After watching the group match between River Plate and Monterrey in Los Angeles, they rushed to Seattle to cheer for the match between River Plate and Inter Milan on the 25th. During the period when the plane was cruising in the air, Boca Youth, the city rival of Riverbed, was playing against Auckland City, and some Riverbed fans were following the game in real time through the WIFI on the plane. For Boca youth, this is a life-and-death battle, and one must win to qualify. However, the Boca Youth, who was one goal in the first half, equalized the score by Oakland City in the second half.

It was this goal that made the aircraft cabin at a height of 10,000 meters boil.

Shouldn't fans from two clubs from Argentina "unified to the outside world" in such international competitions? In fact, the riverbed and Boca youths who are also in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, are a famous pair of enemies in world football.

Jose said: "The game between the two teams is like a war."

reporter asked: "Then why do you support the Riverbed instead of the Boca youth?"

He said: "I supported the Riverbed before I was born."

Jose's father was a hardcore fan of the Riverbed. He followed his father to watch the game at home in the Riverbed at the age of 5. In the past ten years, almost a single game has not been lost. The Riverbed fans celebrating on the plane said that in this Club World Cup, about 4,500 Riverbed fans flew from Argentina to the United States, and the dozens of Riverbed fans who booked the flight almost knew each other, and they came from the same fan organization.

"It is not easy to come to the United States. You have to take leave, apply for a visa, buy a football ticket, and spend a lot of money. Every reason can make you give up, but you only need one reason to overcome all difficulties, that is the riverbed, that is football. The riverbed can go as far as I go, and if I reach the final, I will follow the final." Jose said.

At the Rose Bowl Stadium in Los Angeles, reporters always lamented for this picture: a few-month-old child was held in front of his mother with noise-proof headphones, and a toddler was pulling his father's corner of his clothes... For some people, football is faith. If their life is a galaxy, then football is a star, and every bit of life is like a planet, revolving around football.

They came and let the world see a football without too much embellishment and dressing, just like the midsummer afternoon sun in California, direct, dazzling and hot, but I can't help but go and take a shower.

In the first match of the Rose Bowl Stadium in Los Angeles, the game between Paris Saint-Germain and Atletico Madrid is considered a strong conversation in the group stage. More than 80,000 people entered the game but seemed a little calm. However, the game between Riverbed and Monterrey, 20,000 to 30,000 people caused a tsunami.

On June 21, Riverbed fans cheered at the match between Riverbed and Monterrey. The picture comes from the official FIFA album

, such a howling like this is just like the scene when a reporter met at a height of 10,000 meters. Other passengers were infected by the singing and took out their phones to record the moment. In this world, many people have the same love for football, the world's number one sport, but their expressions of love are different.

"Some people just sit there and watch others perform, but we are fighting with the team," said Jose.