I still remember a lot of things about my first trip to Italy.
When I was applying for a Schengen visa at the Shanghai Consulate, the interviewer flipped through a thick pile of information I handed over, and his eyes suddenly stopped at the ticket order. She drew a circle somewhere on the paper and asked me, "Transfer from Amsterdam... To Turin? Why fly to Turin first, few people choose that first stop! ”
I smiled and replied, "Because of Juventus." ”
It only took a second to think, but this answer — has been brewing in my head for 15 years.
As a child, my first deepest memories of football came from Juventus.
My dad used to be a fan and used the VCR at home to record big games and highlights. The 1994 World Cup, the 1996 European Championship, the Italian Football League... At that age when I was not allowed to stay up late, I went into a pit in these collections and never climbed out again.
The deepest of these is called del Piero's Goal Highlights. The handsome genius who came out of nowhere, the versatility of his shots with both strength and skill, the wonderful goal in the Toyota Cup final, the area on the pitch with his own name, these are simply no resistance to a hero-worshipping child.
As a result, the inadvertent glimpse slowly became the child's long-term concern.
He and his friends ran to the jersey store next to the stadium and pointed to a black and white shirt and asked his parents to pay for it. The salesman kindly reminded: "You see clearly, this is Newcastle, Juventus is out of stock." ”
He was finally allowed to watch the live broadcast at night by chance without class the next day. The biological clock began to turn the clock, and from then on, every time he looked up at the moon at 3:45, he would be as excited as Little Goku.
He watched as the translated name of "Piero" was gradually unified as "Piero", and also submitted his first football manuscript to the magazine, wanting to praise the idol with extremely young writing. Not surprisingly, the stone sank into the sea.
But this child is still looking forward to the future.
I want to have money and let all my family and friends have no worries; I want to be famous and loved by many people like Piero; I even want to become a star and the dream of not being able to enter the World Cup will be fulfilled by me, and Chinese can stand on the stage of Thelp.
However, the river of time can always quietly smooth everything out.
After the rebellion of youth, the mania of secondary two, the self-righteousness of college, the rain and wind of stepping into society, those things called dreams have long disappeared.
Rich? famous? Become a star? At the class reunion, everyone recalled those who boasted about Haikou when they were young, and the seemingly relaxed conversation and laughter could not hide more shame. Someone quoted a quote seen in a book: "The so-called growing up is to slowly learn to be lonely and accept the ordinary." ”
Yeah, we all used to think that we were little Goku, at least we could be a Vegeta, and it turned out to be inferior to Yamucha. We have all dreamed of entering Washington and shooting at the shusheng in front of Qiu Xiang, but the reality is that song bingjia. There are not so many superheroes in the world, and the precipitation accumulated by time is called ordinary.
However, I don't feel that the path to growth has to be lonely.
There are those friends who play marbles and shoot Foreign paintings together, those fox friends who are in the hole in the Internet café, and those who are willing to accompany me until dawn without asking for reasons.
There are so many music that suddenly burst into tears at the emotional place, so many movies that are like experiencing another life after watching, so many Skyline Provinces and Hailula waiting for me to save.
I also have Juventus to accompany me all the way. Watching Piero transform from the haze of injury to a new self, the team from the peak to the trough and then to the comeback, Buffon from losing the need for comfort to hugging the whole team one by one, a group of old boys fell many times without giving up their original dreams.
Lonely? No, I don't think I'm alone at all, and even full of surprises and luck.
So, after completing a little bit of accumulation, I decided to at least realize a small wish that I had once made.
Packed my bags and went to Turin. By the Po River, I admired the sunrise and met two children who came out early in the morning to play football; Piazza San Carlo, where fans often celebrated victories; the Cathedral of Turin, where the doorman saw the sign on my bag and quietly gave me a thumbs up.
Juventus Arena, 50 shining gold stars around, seats in piero and Pirlo in the dressing room, the passage of the players on the pitch, the bench and the sidelines of the coach... Before the game, tens of thousands of people sang the a cappella "Juve, storia di un grande amore", and suddenly I was a little choked up.
This feeling is not like a pilgrimage or a dream, but more like a hug and greeting when old friends meet for many years. "After all these years, it's good to have you by my side."
Yes, we all slowly accept the ordinary as we grow up, but this ordinary road is not alone at all.
There are many such stories among Juve fans I know.
Someone watched "Shuk and Beta" and decided to become a pilot, and finally realized their dreams thanks to drones. But he said that the greatest achievement in life was to raise his son to become a Juventini.
Some people have fantasized about marrying Trezeguet since childhood, and they rushed around the court with a group of boys. I attended her wedding two years ago, and the second dress after changing into her wedding dress was called the Juve jersey.
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We have not become anyone's heroes in the end, and the ordinary may be the biggest annotation of our lives, but who can say that this long and long ordinary, this continuous and long love, cannot be regarded as another kind of greatness?
This is the story of many Juve fans, which originated in reasons that are often difficult to explain themselves, and linked to the emotions of a city in a foreign country.
It's not just the story of Juve fans. Many people may have established some kind of special bond with a city thousands of miles away because of some karmic encounter.
At the figure skating competition of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, Zhang Dan accidentally fell heavily on the ice while completing a difficult action, and the game was interrupted for a while. Everyone thought she couldn't hold on, but Zhang Dan stubbornly returned to the field and won the silver medal with Zhang Hao.
Later, she once said: "Although I didn't win the championship, everyone can remember me many years later, and when I mention the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, I will remember that there was a particularly strong girl who fell down and won the second place." 」 Thanks to the Olympics, I grew and let me know the true meaning of a champion. ”
When the Winter Olympics were about to come to Beijing, Zhang Dan mentioned the city again: "In the depths of my heart, there is a city we share: Turin. I have dreamed of Turin countless times, the place where I had dreamed of it infinitely, where I had fallen, where I had tried to touch my dreams. Blessings to everyone who has been dotted with black and white youth, and who have been illuminated by the city of Turin, Happy Year of the Tiger! ”
With the arrival of the Spring Festival, Juventus Club invited Zhang Dan and Locatelli, Chiellini and other players, and also "quietly" collected a lot of Juve fans' stories, collected into such a New Year's greeting video called "Red Packet".
The story is based entirely on the real experiences of Juve fans. Unlike the uniqueness of the past lenses, Juventus has always been concerned with all the ordinary, silent and great majorities.
Is there your story here?