To support football

The supporters of football most and are organized supporters Sport yews. This is due to the very great popularity of the Football and to the conditions of play: large Stage S in the open air, with platforms being able to accommodate several tens of thousands of people, and a rather great liberty of action (contrary to sports as the Tennis where the concentration of the players requires that the public is quiet).

Types of supporters

One distinguishes several levels from implication at the supporters.

the occasional supporters go punctually to the stage of their favorite team, in an autonomous way. Some will look at the matches in bar S or Pub S which retransmettent them with the Télévision.

Some supporters subscribe at the stage of their favorite team, in order to attend all its matches in residence. This proportion depends on several factors of which the Palmarès of the club considered and the degree of local passion for football.

the most impassioned supporters are organized in official or not-official groups of supporters . These association S of supporters is created in order to organize the encouragements. These groups have more or less to be able: some go until controlling the ticketting of the stage partly, others elect the president of their football club. Certain clubs have several groups of supporters, sometimes more than one ten.

Among these groups of supporters, the more influential groups are those of the supporters Ultras , sometimes compared to the Hooligan S , the distinction between the two terms lying mainly in the use of the Violence, characteristic of the seconds.

Equipment

Among the traditional equipment one to support football, one finds:

the scarf,
the Shirt of the team,
the Flag,
the facial Make-up.

This equipment is most of the time with the colors of the supported team.

The supporters pertaining to groups are equipped generally better, with for example of the Klaxon S, the Mégaphone S or the musical instruments of Fanfare S (Trompette S and drum S). Some supporters use Fumigène S or Bengal lights, although the use of those is even discussed interdict inside the stages.

Animations

To encourage their team and to show their enthusiasm or their dissatisfaction, the supporters shout, sing, applaud, whistle and hoot. But they also benefit from their great number to organize collective animations, like the Ola , which consists so that the spectators raise then lower the arms the ones after the others in a coordinated way, creating an impression of Vague crossing the platforms, or the Tifos , of decorations made up of thousands of pieces of paper or of ribbons held up by the supporters, with the mosaic way of the S. These spectacles are the great speciality of the Extremists.

When an important part of the supporters starts to whistle or hoot for prostester against the bad service of their team, a litigious decision of Arbitrage or a fault of the adversary, one speaks about bronca . The bronca is a Latin speciality (southern of Europe and Latin America).

Particular movements

The Spanish supporters are called the hinchas , the Italian the Tifosi . These groups often take names with the quarrelsome or emphatic consonances.

The Torcida (which in Portuguese means “group of supporters”) indicates a movement born with the Brésil and which was then spread, in particular at the time of the World cup of 1950.

Competitions between supporters

Certain clubs are the subject of great competitions between their supporters respective. The origin of these competitions can be historical (for example following a match between the two teams having had a particular unfolding or having been the subject of an important issue), or geographical. When two clubs of the same city or the same area clash, one speaks about derby .

Portraits of supporters

Zato

Born in 1955 with Ales, Serge Vieilledent is one to support famous Globe-trotter in the medium footballistic. Called “ Zato ” in reference to Emil Zátopek, he traversed more than six million kilometers and considering more than sixteen thousand matches in thirty-four years of a tour which always continues in 2007. Without residence, he is placed by players, trainers, referees and supporters of football all the year. Sponsored by Jean Sadoul, it in particular followed the epopee of the team of France hopes in 1988, France and abroad. Laurent Blanc forever ceased supporting it since this time: a chart of “guide” of the French federation of Football, renewed each year since 1996, gives him access free at all the French stages, for all national competitions and international.

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