1. FC Union Berlin 柏林联合
I'm a converted fan of FCUB. The first time I heard of this club, Union Berlin, was back in December, 2017. In a family reunion, Axel* and I chatted about football in Berlin. I naturally brought up Hertha because that's the only team I knew of. To my surprise, Axel was not following Hertha, the only Bundesliga team in the city; instead, he suggested we should perhaps get the tickets for a Union game.
* For an extraordinary story behind this reunion see this link (in Chinese). 我是一名后来改宗的柏林联合球迷。第一次听说这支俱乐部,是2017年12月。在一次家庭聚会上,Axel*跟我聊到柏林的足球,因为只知道一支球队,我自然而然地提起赫塔。出乎意料的是,Axel并不关注柏林的德甲独苗赫塔的比赛;他提议我们应该去看一场柏林联合的比赛。 * 这个中文链接里有关于家庭聚会背后的故事。 It was until only a few months before we left Germany that I decided to follow Axel's advice. In one of those dull afternoons in late February, on an impulse I started hunting for tickets for a Union game in Berlin. With quite some efforts and patience, I finally got two seats for a game against Ingolstadt. 在离开德国的前几个月,决定听从Axel的建议。百无聊赖的二月末的下午,心血来潮开始搜寻柏林联合的主场球票。花了一番功夫,终于搞到了两张对阵英戈尔施塔特的座位票。 On March 8, 2019, I went to the kindergarten earlier, picked up my son, hopped on a train to Berlin, missed several trams to the stadium simply because the trams were fully packed with Union fans, and by the time we reached Stadion An der Alten Försterei, was totally exhausted. The queue of entering the stadium was long as usual. The boy started complaining. But we didn't know what was awaiting us: A beautiful football journey started on that day, a journey converting us to Union fans and, perhaps more importantly, completely reshaping my view of football. 2019年3月8日,我早早去了托儿所,接上孩子,赶上去柏林的火车,因为车厢满载错过了好几趟去往球场的电车,在最终到达老樵夫屋球场的时候,已经精疲力竭。进体育场的队伍一如既往的长,小朋友开始抱怨。但是我们完全没有想到等待我们的是这样一次美好的足球之旅,在这个旅途上,我俩成为了柏林联合的球迷,而也许更重要的是,我对足球的认识也被彻底改变了。 |
Photos (from left to right)
FCUB stickers on a trash can, Wernigerode, July 24, 2019.
垃圾桶上的柏林联合贴纸,韦尼格罗德,2019年7月24日
The little Union fan held his FCUB scarf before the home match against Ingolstadt, Mar. 8, 2019
在跟英戈尔施塔特开场前,柏林联合小球迷举着他的围巾,2019年3月8日
FCUB stickers on a trash can, Wernigerode, July 24, 2019.
垃圾桶上的柏林联合贴纸,韦尼格罗德,2019年7月24日
The little Union fan held his FCUB scarf before the home match against Ingolstadt, Mar. 8, 2019
在跟英戈尔施塔特开场前,柏林联合小球迷举着他的围巾,2019年3月8日