How supporters around the world behave inside and outside the football match? Football is considered the king of sport in many countries. It is in fact the most popular sport around the globe. And coming to the stadium, watching football and supporting one’s local team have largely become a cultural norm. It’s a great way to experience entertainment, and relax after work. It also connects people. However, problems can arise as football rivalry becomes too intense.
According to Worldfootball.net, the average of attendance in England is 35,921 people per game last season and in Germany, this even increased to 42,622 people. Moreover, in Italy is about 23,000 people and in Spain is about 27,000 people. Additionally, there are millions of people watching their team playing every weekend in the TV. Not only the attendance, but also the supporters spend a huge amount of money each year, according to media.visitbritain.com, the British fans spend over £706 million. This shown that football is very popular around the world. Most of supporters are "true" fans and some of them are "seasonal" fans. Firstly, "true" fans are someone who loved their club no matter how the club playing, are someone who scream their hearts out whenever they can watch their favorite team playing. Secondly, "seasonal" fans are the people who support the well-playing team and if that team isn't good anymore, they will change their mind then support another well-playing team. The similarities between most of fans around the world is: they often shout at opponent players when they are wasting the time, committing foul or even just controlling the ball. However, there are many differences of supporting cultures between countries.
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...ng about A.C. Milan, from the players, the staffs to the facilities and the history of the club. I love Italian football, in my eyes, Italian football is so different to other, with the liberal style of players and the wild of the fans excluded the hooligan. The supporting cultures in Italy is pretty good, as a Milanista, I can confirm that the Italian fans are great and their behaviors are awesome. On the other hand, I love Viet Nam national team as much as most Vietnamese do. The fans in Viet Nam are not generous and polite as Europe fans but we choose another style, the style of sociable, generous and cooperative. It's hard to define what are the supporting cultures of Viet Nam, it's hard to say that Viet Nam fans the supporting behaviors of Viet Nam fans are gentle and affable but I strongly believe, the love in football of Viet Nam can compare to the worldwide.
The author covers the most prevalent groups and events relating to football. Some of them are pep rallies, marching band, cheerleaders / pep squads, spectators / ex-players, and the brains / farm kids / nobodies. The pep rally is a school-wide event,
Sport fans, sometimes also called sport devotees, followers, or supporters, are persons who are enthusiastically devoted to a particular athlete, team or sport. They may show their enthusiasm by often attending sporting events or watch on television, being members of a fan club, follow sport news through newspapers, online websites, and creating fanzines. Their disposition is often such that they will experience a game or event by living through their favored players or teams. These behaviors manifest itself in different ways. To enable better understanding of these behavioral patterns, we have to classify these sports fans into groups based on their devotion to teams: fair-weather fans, bandwagon and the super-fans.
Despite the age-old on field rivalry, the tension between Celtic and Ranger supporters runs much deeper than what takes place on the soccer field. The conflict between the fans has erupted into violence on many occasions, with games between the two clubs ending in some of the worst riots and greatest tragedies in sporting history. Despite the tension created through competition, the origin of hatred between clubs and fans is not just the result of bad tackles and endless taunting.
Being a fan give football meaning and importance on why this game excites everyone. Within the colossus size of a stadium, holds the heart of the image of football. Traditionally, spectators sit on rows of seats, eating, drinking, or even talking to spectators as the game rages on in the stadium. But, not only spectators can watch these games personally up close, but they can also be at a sports bar, a restaurant, or even at their home. Tailgating is one of the most popular ways of celebrating football by enjoying the game while cooking and serving delicious food like flavorful hamburgers, grilled hot dogs, tender barbecue, and much more. Created by the loyal fans, tailgating became a part of the experience in the tradition of football. Popular events like these, creates festivities of football that no other sport can contest to emulate an immense and engaging
Soccer is the world’s most favorite sport played in the majority of countries. The phenomenon is that soccer brings people together of all nations, languages, races, religions, political creeds. It is even more popular countries like the United Kingdom, Brazil, Germany, and Spain. The Total aggregate attendance of the English Premier League games reached 13,165,416 in season 2011/2012. As the most popular sport in Brazil, 6.7 million fans attended soccer games in Brazil’s stadiums during the 2009 season. Soccer is also one of the most revenue-making entertainment industries around the world. In season 2011/12, the European football market grew to 19.4 billion euros and its revenue was 1 billion euros over the second placed Bundesliga of Germany in 2011/12.
The importance of fans is vital because in addition to skill talent and hardwork, fans greatly affect how a team performs in their games. They affect the way a player plays because fans have a way of getting into their players heads and the opponent's head, even the referees are affected by the fans and we rarely notice the importance. In 2001 a Sports Ethics article “ The Ideal Fan” by Myles Dichter he explains the importance of fans and connection between fans
Sports are a huge part of American culture. With football, basketball, and baseball being the most popular, the sports industry is worth an estimated 422 billion dollars. Of course, there would be no sports industry without the fans. The fanatics are what make sports so special. Even though each devotee is unique, most can be categorized into four main groups – Bandwagon fans, Casual fans, Hometown/True fans, and Coaches.
Now, football itself and its players aren’t the only ones who encourage these violent aggressive behaviors. It’s the fans. In psychology, there is something called positive reinforcement in the process of operant conditioning. This is when a particular behavior is positively reinforced with a reward. In this case, the football players’ action of violently taking out his opponent is positively reinforced with the reward of the massive cheerings from fans. This is where football builds the bridge of influence of excitement in violence between players and
In the world of sport, soccer and football with respect to demographic has had numerous controversies. Although both sport are known famously around the globe, for many years fans from both sides are known for asking, is American football same as soccer? What’s the time limit on both sports? What’s the game objective? Do they use the same ball? However they both have similarities and differences which I will be talking about in this essay.
Football has been a very important part of American culture especially in the last 50 years. Football is now the most followed by sport in America. There are many different levels that football is played. For example, there is professional, semi-pro, college, high school and pop warner. Fans from all over are passionate at each level of football. Professional and college football are by far the most popular and contains the biggest fan base. It can easily be argued that high school football has some of the most passionate fans.
To the fans, being at the game is very important as they get to enjoy and to witness, be part of, the record breaking moments. The presence of the many fans at the stadium has kept the game on its high horse. Fans have moved from being most males at the beginning to seeing more females in the later years, and now it has become a family oriented sport. Every man, woman and child can share in the excitement of the game. The fans take the game to the homes, the beach, the streets, the schools, or anywhere a bat, a ball and a pitch is available. Young and old, rich or poor, no matter what language you speak, you are fans. There is no class with cricket. There are just teams; everyone belongs to a cricket team, just as seen in the 2011 cricket song video. The teams performs well the fans are elated, the team performs badly, the fans are disappointed but they are still cricket fans and would attend or watch the next cricket match. We the fans in the West Indies are famous for this reaction, if our team loses the match, we complain, but we are still up early in the morning or we gather long the street side, in shops, at home, at work, anywhere we get to watch the next match. And if we win, it’s the topic until the next match. So it builds up the expectation of the people. Everyone waiting in anticipation of which team will be victorious at the next match. This is what cricket means to its people, it’s more than just a game, and it’s a
Looking back in history to the 19th century Europe, colonization and global expansion created a sense of competition amongst European nations. This sparked global rivalries over territories and was a catalyst to the age of nationalism in Europe. The competition between countries venture of manifest destiny was the leading catalyst in the rise of nationalism. It is no surprise that the nationalism and competitive nature of 19th century expansionism, created a platform for the rivalry and competition in modern sports (Bottenburg). Global rivalries in sports are played out in, major events such as the world cup and the Olympics. These events bring out the die-hard and the casual fan together in a global celebration of sporting and national pride. The World Cup of soccer is a great place to begin looking at the impact modern sports have on nationalism and national identity. Every four years 32 teams from across the globe come together in celebration of the worlds most popular game, in hopes their country wins the worlds most coveted trophy. Nationalism in this tournament comes in an array of positivity and negativity. The atmosphere, colors, flags, fans cheering and chanting songs shows the role of symbolism. On the other hand, hooliganism and violence amongst fans show us the negative aspect of attaching such strong nationalistic ties to a
Who are fans? Why are they around and what is their purpose? To answer that question as clearly as possible, I had to take the time to think. What kind of fan am I? Fans are everywhere. Sports enthusiasts, in particular, love a specific sport or a certain club/team. They come from every country and support every possible activity. I'd like to think that sports fans are there to support their favorite teams and show their pride. Take the world's largest sport, football (also known as soccer in the United States). This game has the largest participation in the world and has the largest fan based communities. These followers are not there just because they want to see people play; it is a way of life. Among the most predominate soccer teams is Manchester United. This English club team has the rowdiest soccer fans I have ever seen. We thought that American Football fans are crazy? Well just think about how extreme they are with their entire bodies painted and the chants and cheers to support the...
... fans who stop attending games and the success of the team will be going down. Now if we take a look at a regular soccer team in England for example Liverpool, the fans know that the owner wants to do what’s best for the team and want to win, so even if the team is struggling the stadium will still be sold out just because the fans trust the owner will do what’s best for the team and they will support the team no matter whether they are playing well or not. Now if Liverpool started to sell all their best players just so that the owner could make some money the fans would slowly stop going to the games.
That’s twice as much as the UEFA! Now where do you think these viewers come from? Do soccer fans just emerge from the shadows to watch this event? No, people around the world join in to watch this great event. After all, it is the greatest sporting event in the world.