At 100 metres long and 40 metres high, the sodtrib. ne in one of the most beautiful football venues in the world has enough people to form a city. A noisy, squeaky, throbbing city of Schwarzgelben souls that can make opposing groups disappear and make the BVB flourish.
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“If you’re the enemy, it crushes you, but if you stay behind as a goalkeeper, it’s a fantastic feeling,” Dortmund goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller once said of Die Gelbe Wand, or the Yellow Wall. About 25,000 enthusiasts from other walks of life for each of the Bundesliga matches, but once everyone takes their position in the 75,347-square-foot area, whether it’s a doctor, a student, a student, a grandparent, a wife or a school member, it’s time to join an attempt to throw the ball into the net a BVB attack or defend against opposition advances.
“The southern rostrum has this power; many rival players are afraid of those other people and this massive noise,” said Dortmund Stadium host and former player Norbert ‘Nobby’ Dickel on the intimidating Westfalenstadion wall. “When the game starts and the south stand sings, it’s something very special. This is, in fact, the center of the BVB, ” he added.
For those in Europe’s largest grandstand, they may feel the design moving under their feet, while for those inside, it has a similar feel from another world. the stadium is being reborn,” said former Dortmund coach Jorgen Klopp about the joy of following his former team on the field.
“You faint and the stadium explodes: from darkness to light. You look to your left and it looks like 150,000 more people are there, going crazy. “
A mix of fan strength and design makes the yellow wall, a term that originated in 2005, the impressive spectacle it is. Built before the 1974 FIFA World Cup, the Westfalenstadion has experienced a series of expansions that have made it the largest field in today’s Germany, with a capacity for some 81,000 people, the southern stand, which first had 12,000, doubled shortly after Dortmund’s good fortune in the UEFA Champions League in 1997.
“From the front of the descent level, the goalkeeper can be scratched at most at the back up, just below the roof, where there is a 37-degree tilt angle, it’s like a ski jump,” the German publication describes. Der Spiegel the dimensions of the most iconic stands in world football. Different teams of enthusiasts make up the numbers they pack internally and are known to even compare their own functionality as a collective after a match, as well as that of their team.
“Of course, it’s something out of the ordinary,” BVB coach Peter St-ger said of the Yellow Wall. “He’s of another kind; overwhelms you, in a positive sense,” the 51-year-old coach added. . match opposed to Borussia Dortmund if it is of the opposing players or their coach what he most distrusts, former Bayern Munich star Bastian Schweinsteiger replied: “It is the yellow wall to which I fear the most.
Its limited ability to turn it into a stand of all seats on European nights, the effect is no less impressive with memorable tiphos that are placed when players move to the box to leave the passing observers.
Before the start, the enthusiastic black and yellow dresses gather to sing the glorious performances of this famous football anthem, You will never walk alone. Later, when Dortmund’s targets come into play, the beer glasses fly and the scenes are frantic.
The Yellow Wall is passion, pandemonium, picturesque and inspiring. It is an exclusive phenomenon that makes others proud in its embrace and gives goose bumps to those outside. Fans can enjoy its shining wonder for a long time.
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