[Location: Zhonghua Zenith Stadium, Shanghai, China]
[Match 2 - Day 1]
[Fixture: USA vs Germany]
All of Day 1 games took place in the same stadium, the Zhonghua Zenith Stadium. And this time, it was USA vs Germany.
Japan vs France took place in the afternoon, and hours later, USA vs Germany arrived at the zhonghua zenith stadium to fight it out.
And like usual, the first thing was the opening ceremony.
This time, the performer was AURORA REX, the celestial-voiced, genre-bending superstar from Iceland.
As the sun dipped behind the steel sky of Shanghai, Zhonghua Zenith Stadium was awash in deep red and electric blue. Silhoutted against the horizon, an enormous mechanical phoenix soared above the crowd as the arena trembled.
AURORA REX, clad in a shimmering cloak of fiber optics, stood atop a floating gear-shaped dais. With haunting vocals and primal drums echoing across the skyline, she sang "Chains of the Sky," a soaring electro-symphony written just for the World Cup.
