To welcome the arrival of King Yang Yang, Real Madrid had specially remodeled the Bernabéu Stadium.
All the grass in the middle of the pitch had been removed and replaced with a green carpet, with a T-shaped stage set up to ensure that everything happening on it could be clearly seen from any angle in the stadium.
The central stage faced the South Stand at Bernabéu. This was the stand occupied by the club's most die-hard supporters, and, together with Liverpool's KOP stand, Inter Milan's North Stand at Meazza Stadium, and Bayern Munich's South Stand at Allianz Arena, it was renowned as one of the most famous hardcore supporter stands in Europe.
The enormous posters bearing the words Real Madrid that had originally surrounded the stadium had also been taken down, specifically to ensure that every player in the stands could see Yang Yang from any angle.
Unlike the unveiling ceremonies for Kaka and Ibrahimovic, the arrangements at Bernabéu tonight were very simple. However, with more than eighty thousand Real Madrid fans gathered inside the stadium and another forty or fifty thousand unable to get in outside, the event became extraordinarily grand and imposing.
At the same time, this indirectly conveyed a certain message: in front of Yang Yang, no decoration or embellishment was needed at all, because he himself was the most dazzling superstar at Bernabéu tonight. He would also be Real Madrid's brightest top star for the next few years—the darling of Bernabéu Stadium!
The stadium was packed with people, with not a single seat empty, and the area outside was just as densely crowded.
Since more than forty thousand fans had been unable to enter Bernabéu Stadium, Real Madrid broadcast everything happening inside live on giant screens around the stadium. Inside and outside, the air was