The sound of sixty thousand people yelling in unison was deafening. With organized groups banging on drums and gongs and holding up banners, it felt like the very ground was shaking.
On the main grandstand, Tang Hemin couldn't help but marvel, "Sixty thousand people!"
He surveyed the scene, his face beaming with pride.
He'd seen matches at the Worker's Stadium, where the roar of the crowd's infamous "Beijing jeers" felt like a tsunami, making the ground tremble.
There weren't many stadiums in China that could hold over fifty thousand people.
Of the fifteen teams in the Chinese Super League, besides Pioneer, only the Worker's Stadium and Modu Stadium could hold more than fifty thousand.
The home stadiums for the remaining teams generally only held around thirty thousand people.
The infrastructure itself limited attendance.
As far as Tang Hemin knew, back in '95 and '96, at the height of Jia A's popularity, the average attendance was just over twenty thousand.
