There is no more impressive stand in European football than the Südtribune of Signal Iduna Park, name of Westfalenstadion from 2005 and now until 2026. Only The copin Anfieldrivals the mystique and the atmosphere it creates with myth’Yellow Wall’ (Die Gelbe Wand) of Borussia Dortmundwhose greatest angle of inclination, at the top, is 37 degrees, similar to a ski jumping trampoline.
With a total of 100 meters wide, 52 meters long and 40 meters high, the intimidating effect on the rival is brutal with a capacity of 24,454 fans which was doubled after winning the Champions in 1997. This is almost a third of the capacity of the largest stadium in Germany (81,365), which was inaugurated in 1974 before the World Cup. It hosted another one in 2006, when Fabio Grosso and Alessandro del Piero They scored for Italy with that goal on the brink of a shootout, silencing a wave of white shirts from the hosts who dreamed of a final.
Incomparable mosaic
That silence has nothing to do with what awaits Barça, which is injury-free but winless in its only two visits (1-1 in the Super Cup in 1998 and 0-0 in the 2019-20 Champions League) at a stadium leading to attendance at Old Continent in progress at Spotify Camp Nou. Robert Lewandowski played for four years (2010-14), carrying the impressive past mosaics produced by Unity, the most radical faction of Südtribune. Located at mouths 12 and 13, where cell phone recording is prohibited, at Yellow Wall There are no assigned seats but everyone knows which one they can get without even looking for a better one.
Jamie Carragher, another arrived from Liverpool
Tightly an hour before the start, it adopted as the unofficial anthem ‘You’ll never walk alone’. After singing it together with Liverpool fans in 2016 at Anfield in tribute to the 96 who died at Hillsborough in 1989, the FIFA first prize was awarded ‘ex aequo’ The Best to the best fans. Jamie Carragher The ‘red’ legend and now the star analyst of the Champions League on CBS Sports, joined the stand in the last semi-final against PSG. In 2019, UEFA raised the Borussia Dortmund with the ‘Equal Game’ award for fighting racism and the far right.
Already in 2017, the club ran a campaign with the slogan ‘Football and Nazis don’t fit’ with a video in which a group of Nazis misses a very clear goal while playing football. The alternative for Germany was able to enter only 90 deputies in the German Parliament, something that had not been done since 1949 four years after Second World War. In addition to the rise in some hobbies, a neo-Nazi sector wants to infiltrate Südtribune. The biggest shame and turning point is ‘Sieg Heil!’ cried during a minute’s silence in 2014 following the death of masseuse Hermann Rieger.
Flag of zero tolerance for the extreme right, Borussia Dortmund is already an example in the Third Reich of the fight against National Socialism. The club refused to sign the party hitler and the Gestapo He killed several club leaders who were accused of producing anti-Nazi propaganda. That is why it is more than a club like Barça, who is the president, Joseph Suñolwas shot by Franco’s troops in 1936.
Founded in 1909, the Borussia It owes its name to a brand of beer and was seeded by a group of young people who wanted to break away from the Catholic parish of ‘The Trinity’ to create a team because the newly arrived rector Hubert Dewald It’s against football. Although he first played in a white shirt, with blue vertical stripes and a red band, from the aforementioned Catholic organization. By 1913, it had mutated to yellow and black (Emma the bee was its mascot) in the context of its predominantly Protestant and left-wing fanbase with many workers in the coal mines and steel industry in Rühr basin.
Against the new rich
Proudly ‘the people’s club’, it competes in the area with Schalke 04which they call ‘Scheisse 04’ (Shit 04) in the Rühr Classic, and in the country with Bavaria Munich (Der Klassiker). Of course, the emergence of the new rich in German football was made Leipzig (Red Bull) and Hoffenheim two new enemies of more than one club that is the motto ‘True Love’ (True Love), which was born in a campaign in 2009, raises its values Yellow Wall became a rain of beer glasses with a purpose from Borussia.
Source: La Verdad
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