It’s the first pitchinvasion.net battle of the Polish ultras! After we posted this video of Lech Poznan’s ultras yesterday, commenter BoB asserted they were nothing compared to those of Legia Warsaw. So who’s better? You decide (I’m certainly not - Chicago has a very large and avid Polish soccer community, after all).
We’ve looked at a couple of differing sides of Polish supporters recently in photos, but this video shows the full range of their lightshow antics in full. Let’s hope some of this atmosphere shows up in EURO 2012. Warning: not for those allergic to strobe lighting.
There was a time when I had no idea what tifo was - it’s not a style of supporting that English fans have embraced. Since it’s something that will come up repeatedly on this site, I may as well be sure everyone out there is familiar with it. The word itself comes from the Italian [...]
The tifo below struck me as pretty damn cool when I first saw it, but its meaning escaped me. The banner is by supporters of FC Groningen of the Netherlands, and I asked the photographer, Antoon Kuper, what it was all about:
“Ajax from Amsterdam is a town in the area called Randstad. Groningen is a [...]
According to Wikipedia, ‘Fener’ in Turkish means lighthouse, ‘bahçe’ means garden. Fenerbahçe fans turned their stadium into a garden of light as 30,000 fans sported sparklers.
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