Awesome crowds in football stadiums (the one which is played by foot you silly yanks :P)

[white-wolf]

Yesterday was the great Turkish derby - Galatasaray vs Fenerbahce... Galtasaray's fans made one awesome choreography...

Unfortunately we lost. 1-2. They came four times and got two goals. We had 20+ chances to score but got only one goal. It was just like Barca - Real match, however Real had more chances. Gods of ball does not like yesterday evening.

[Wallachian]

A video of the home crowd of Steaua Bucharest from December 2011. Game was Steaua vs AEK Larnaca 3 - 1 in Europa League

[tudor93]

A video of the home crowd of Steaua Bucharest from December 2011. Game was Steaua vs AEK Larnaca 3 - 1 in Europa League

I still laugh today because they got the '9' wrong

[Wallachian]

Right or wrong I have yet to see from Dinamo or any other Romanian team any such crowds or coreography

[florin87]

except for rapid. or poli timisoara. or craiova.

[tudor93]

Right or wrong I have yet to see from Dinamo or any other Romanian team any such crowds or coreography

[tudor93]

Second league in Romania

[ggggtotalwarrior]

Awesome crowds in football stadiums (the one which is played by foot you silly yanks )

HEY! We Yanks aren't silly. We only play a game with our hands and call it Football, while renaming the game played with our feet......Oh yeah, nevermind

[the_mango55]

HEY! We Yanks aren't silly. We only play a game with our hands and call it Football, while renaming the game played with our feet......Oh yeah, nevermind

What do you mean renaming? We didn't name it Soccer, the Brits did.

It's short for Association Football. People started calling it that before Association Football became the most dominant kind, and there were other types being played all over the world that also went by the name "football", including Rugby, Austrailian, American, Gaelic, etc.

[chilon]

Like all things, we Americans simply do it better...

Total weak sauce. Im embarrassed for you for even posting that.

As an American whose been to all American sporting events (nfl, nba, nhl, mlb) no American sports fans as a group compare at all to the best football (soccer) fans around the world.

In America college sports have way better fans and atmospheres than professional sports for the most part (at least as far as passion and interaction with the game is concerned). Still none of them really compare to the passion and chants of footy fans around the world.

[King Nud]

following up from the comment on US College crowds:

[Lith]

1:20 onwards in this:

[Mr. Pink]

following up from the comment on US College crowds:

To be honest that seems really cringe-worthy to me (as are most American attempts of creating an atmosphere during a game).

[ccllnply]

To be honest that seems really cringe-worthy to me (as are most American attempts of creating an atmosphere during a game).

I was going to make a post earlier explaining just this fact but was too lazy. I'm not big on ultras but there's a big difference between the actual attempt to make an atmosphere and get hearts pumps outside of the US compared to what seems to be an attempt to have "good ol' family fun" at events inside the US.

In other words, an obese and a soccer mom in the front row clapping with other people or a few thousand people jumping around like morons to a song being played over loud speaker doesn't even kind of come close to a stadium full of people singing "I just can't get enough" and jumping around. Atmosphere is not created by a stereo. Songs are played over the loud speakers at American stadiums because there would just be silence otherwise

[the_mango55]

It's all very simple, Americans go watch sports that are exciting enough to be entertaining on their own, we don't come to the stadium and have to provide our own entertainment

EDIT: Also, in American Football at least, the fans can actually impact the game by participation, and it's not some "intimidation" garbage that never works. If fans are loud enough when the opposing team is on defense, it's difficult for them to communicate in the huddle, and makes it impossible for them to communicate on the line of scrimmage. If you have a good crowd they can cause several false starts in a game.

Meanwhile, you want your crowd to be reasonably quiet while your own team is in the huddle or at the line.

[chilon]

EDIT: Also, in American Football at least, the fans can actually impact the game by participation, and it's not some "intimidation" garbage that never works.

I remember an old fan of the Washington Bullets who would relentlessly abuse opposing players and coaches when they came to visit in attempts to intimidate and put them on tilt. He got quite famous, for a fan.


AH! Robin Ficker was his name. One of the most famous sports hecklers ever.

*Made in America

hahahaha

[Mr. Pink]

It's all very simple, Americans go watch sports that are exciting enough to be entertaining on their own, we don't come to the stadium and have to provide our own entertainment

EDIT: Also, in American Football at least, the fans can actually impact the game by participation, and it's not some "intimidation" garbage that never works. If fans are loud enough when the opposing team is on defense, it's difficult for them to communicate in the huddle, and makes it impossible for them to communicate on the line of scrimmage. If you have a good crowd they can cause several false starts in a game.

Meanwhile, you want your crowd to be reasonably quiet while your own team is in the huddle or at the line.

Were the Colts or some other team not fined a while ago for actually playing crowd noise over the sound system?

[King Nud]

Yeah I read that somewhere! What a strange thing to do...

[the_mango55]

I remember an old fan of the Washington Bullets who would relentlessly abuse opposing players and coaches when they came to visit in attempts to intimidate and put them on tilt. He got quite famous, for a fan.


AH! Robin Ficker was his name. One of the most famous sports hecklers ever.

*Made in America

hahahaha

I dont know this guy specifically, but that stuff is generally about distraction instead of intimidation

[therussian]

I dont know this guy specifically, but that stuff is generally about distraction instead of intimidation