- Great enthusiasm
- Strong expressions of love and hate
-
Hard-drinking
- Shouting and singing
- Fighting and violence
- Big
police forces and arresting
- And even killing
Football (soccer)
supporters are not like other sport fans. For them football means everything in
life. Victory and enjoyment are what they are struggling for, but sometimes
hates lights from their eyes. This makes the battles even harder outside the
stadiums than on the football grounds.
Hate occurs especially when their
team plays against the rival. Through wild shouting they express their most deep
feelings about the main enemy. Soccer is their passion, but it is a lot more
than that. It is about religion, politics and regional prestige. This mix of
elements here can be the real dynamite! Sometimes it explodes
..
It is
not difficult to understand that football hooliganism related to outrages
violence. It is spread around the world and occurs in most societies, more or
less. Hate against a certain team joins people. They feel that they have
something strong in common. Sometimes it turns in to mass suggestion, which make
them totally uncontrolled in their behaviour. Some matches within a country are
sometimes even more hateful than matches between countries.
Here are
probably the most disreputable hate matches:
Barcelona -
Real Madrid (Spain) OLÈ, OLÈ, OLÈ! FORZA BARCA, FORCA REAL
MADRID. In someway it probably looks like a bullfight, but it is not. It is
really Spanish football on their best, and also here they shout OLÈ, OLÈ, OLÈ,
and sometimes puta, puta, when they get real furious, as they do most of the
time. The capacity is over 100.000 spectators, and they know their football, but
also their politic, religion and history.
Barcelona has been the centre,
struggling for independence for the Catalonia region for many years. That is
because these matches also are a fight against the central politicians in the
capital Madrid. The wild crowd can frighten players almost to death. You can see
what happened to big stars like the Danish Michael Laudrup and the Portuguese
Luis Figo.
When they entered Nou Camp (Barcelona) after they jumped over
from Barcelona to the main enemy Real Madrid, the audience greetings were not
the best. Many players get totally paralysed, and make them not able to kick a
ball during the whole match. The slogan to Barcelona Football club is: Barca mas
de un club. Be sure the supporters take this literally.
Photos (see below): Nou Camp in Barcelona, Europe`s
largest stadium.
River Plate - Boca Junior (Argentina)
You can
here them from a long distance. OLÈ, OLÈ, OLÈ! Puta, puta
. ! On the hate
matches between two of the capital Bueno Aires` many top teams, River Plate from
the rich area and Diego Maradona`s former club Boca Juniors from the working
class area, the surroundings looks like a state of emergency. When these rivals
are playing against each other, you have to go through many checkpoints. So it
will take a time before you can enter the overwhelming stadium.
Photos (see below): River Plate stadium, Buena
Aires, Argentina.
It`s not the safest place on earth when River Plate and Bocca Juniors play
against each other, but incredible fascinating.
During
years many fans have died due to clashes between rivalling groups. Police and
military forces acts sometimes very brutal in order control the wild crowd.
Fighting between supporters from the same team in South America happens also
sometimes. Intense discussions about how the team should play, referees and
other things, has caused killing. Some people are so fanatic about it that they
are willing to die for it.
This article continue. Read more about the
world's most hateful matches on article Part 2 at our website.
Stein Morten Lund, 6 September 2000
Additional information Read
more about the atmosphere on big football matches here:
-
Argentinean football: life or death? Read more here!
- "Pilgrims" travelling to holy grounds in England! Read more
here!
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