There was just one Clip from a home game. And all the fan marches are most likely away games of the champions league in other europen countrys. This marches happening not every game just befor special once.
In europe most of the clubs won‘t give their number „12“ to a player, since there are 11 soccer players on the pitch and one player is off the pitch… the crowd is the 12th men indeed
@@support4583 what else if not clubs. if you are still one who thinks football is about tradition, you need to get you head out of your pink unicorns ass. it's all about business in all top tier leagues. and not just business, it's full of corruption in all clubs and their sponsors. the "tradition" is just a fluffy dream some disillusional people still dream. get over it and face the world how it is.
Come see what it's like in Australia. 100,000 fans at an Australian rules grand final with no flares, no gang fights, a big happy family including young kids, one, maybe two morons at best. Biggest weekly attendances of any sport in the world per capita, and fourth highest overall regardless of the population. if you don't know about it, search for, "What is AFL, Aussie rules explained." 🇦🇺🦘
@@armitage9204 Talked to some older english footballfans on my job and they called them plastic fans. I think it goes back to the high prices for tickets which destroyed their fan culture in the first two divisions, so its like creditcard fans.
To prevent a fight between the Ultras in a high risk game like Dortmund vs. Schalke the home and away team are separated by police from each other before, during and after the game.
These walks to the stadium, are usually the away fans. The fans arrive with special trains and get escorted by the police to the stadium to avoid contact with the local fans.
What is important to me is that the ultras do not only use the events to support, but also to express their opinions about things that happen in other areas of life. When many thousands, many tens of thousands of people shout something, you can't help but pay attention.
3:30 in Europe fans are often devided, into sections and they enter/leave the stadium at different times, so they won't kill each other, when coming across. There are even some stadiums, where fans of each team have their own sections at nearby trainstations divided by fences and of course so they won't sit in the same train/tram/bus.
@@tennents7843 There is no problem with that. I was never a big football fan but I was 4 when I was the first time at a football match with my dad (Schalke vs Dortmund, whicht is considered very dangerous) and it's as "dangerous" as going to an opera for normal people. "Casual fans" are also devided from "hardcore fans" and ultras. There is actually even no way for a normal person to get tickets for sections where fireworks and all that stuff happens. People who just want to casually watch a match will absolutely not come into contact with any of this ultra stuff.
9:27 this was the first International Game in Years for the 1.FC Köln against London, and to support the Team, round about 35000 Fans drive to England even they have no Tickets for the Game. 😅
Ultras are the player #12 they are a KEY element IN THE GAME. They are the atmosphere, the support, they give that extra push to the players so they keep on fighting. Ultras travel with their team to support them in wherever city or county they go play. Win or lose they are there chanting cheering for their team. RESPECT!!! Btw one corner (curva) of the stadium is for the ultras of the home team and the opposite curva is for the away team. You will never ever sit them near each other, that will not be good 😅
In Europe the other sections apart from the Ultras sections are for those who just want to sit down and watch the game unfold. Sometimes I even forget about the game when I'm just watching and listening to the ultras
As an Englishman,I can only applaud the ultras in pretty much every European country. Been to many of the games over there following Manchester United and the atmosphere was always top notch. Dortmund were special when we went there and the Yellow Wall is impressive as was Schalke but the best I ever saw was at Fenerbache in Istanbul,Turkey. At one point,3 quarters of the stadium looked it was on fire,and the chanting was deafening.
If the fans go overboard the team is punished. Either fans (income) are banned and they have a so called “ghost game” or they have to pay a fine. Also the fireworks are prohibited (bengal lights).
It‘s also true that there are standout football clubs like Schalke 04 in Gesenkirchen who serve as a way to allow for men to gather together and be proud about something, follow their tribal instincts to group together and let loose. Gelsenkirchen is the second most poorest county in all of Germany because they used to have great steel manufacturing and coal mining in the region called the Ruhrpott, but after structural changes and a lot of unemployment and foreign immigrants, Schalke as an institution is one of the pillars of societal cohesion thereabouts. Reading a lot lately of male disheartenement and dissatisfaction, I have come to understand the value of institutions and traditions like old football clubs a lot more. As a student at Uni I used to be annoyed as all heck when taking the train home and finding out that it was some important game in the Pott, having to maneuver around drunk men at 10 am, singing their songs in the train cars, being greeted by police in the thousands at the station where I needed to change trains, to be constantly watchful not to be caught in the middle of scuffles between opposing fan groups as to not get pushed off the platform with all my luggage. However, I have mellowed quite a bit watching videos such as this, looking less at the obstruction to public life such as traffic jams, closed off roads, drunk men at lunch time being obnoxious in the inner city before the games.
1:42 This is actually a normal sight at large games. Away team fans are brought in by train, collected at the railway station by the Rozzers and then marched to the stadium to prevent pre-game riots. Deutsche Bahn (railway company) often runs dedicated extra trains for the incoming fans, so they don't travel on regular trains.
@@lynnm6413 Ultras are generally not violent. The term comes from 'ultra loyal fans'. Some well known footballers like Manuel Neuer have been Ultras. The people you were thinking about are Hooligans. That's a completely different group.
@@dschoene57 I have to disagree with you there. As a German citizen, hailing from the Ruhrgebiet originally, I had to travel by train returning home from Uni a lot of weekends with fans of various football clubs, traveling to and sometimes, if rarely, from a game. Those were hardly the hardcore hooligans or ultras, which often get separate trains to limit the chance of any meeting opposing fans. I also lived in Hannover very close to the stadium, I could hear the chants from my room, so no… I was referring to the regular drunken male football fan, singing fan songs during the train ride, getting into minor scuffles on train platforms scaring all the rest of the passengers and hitting on women in the inner city while being unable to string three sentences together in the middle of the day. Harmless doesn‘t equal welcome, ya know?!
When you say the crowd is like an extra player on the field. Well, we call them "de twaalfde man" here, which literaly translates to "the 12th man". (the other 11 are on the field for those that don't know the math in football).
Gotta remember that most of these are away fans, hundreds of miles away from home, mostly in other countrys and usually on a random tuesday or wednesday evening
I remember being at a Champion's league game in Milan some 13 years ago, (Inter vs Schalke 04) and the German fans were absolutely insane in the city before and after the game, great memory!
3:30 This is the section for the away Fans, these Fans travelled from Dortmund, Germany to London to support their Team in the international game ( Champions League, the top league in whole europe.) And they do this to every game, no matter how far, this is what Football means to us.
It's not only football. In most of the hockey stadiums in Germany there's also a good fan culture. Especially in older halls like Straubing or Iserlohn.
IN The US these would be classed as Riots. We British, German, Italian, Spanish and EU as a whole are very happy to more Free than Americans when it comes to this sort of fun.
@@mntssth5004 That's not the point, I'd never pay money for that anyways, it's illegal in the first place, the clubs and associations just don't have the balls to really enforce their rules. I don't know if it's the uploader or YT but somehow fascist censorship deleted my reply to the other one so I can't eloborate on that.
@@DerEchteBold because there is no "reason". Pyro was never illegal for 20-30 years, until the Politicians decided to make it illegal, claiming that pyro is dangerous, wich is not true, if its not thrown into groups of people. Its a Part of the Fan culture, and it should have never been banned. But makes no difference anyway
That's why football (the real kind) is the most popular sport in the world. There's nothing like going with 4-5000 of your teammates and friends to another city, wave your flags through the streets, sing the songs of your team and basically occupy the center and drink all the beer. Last time I did that was in Germany and my team (a Bulgarian team - Levski Sofia) was playing away in Frankfurt. Really is something else to see and experience.
Usually at Euro‘s and WC the atmosphere is different. St least in Europe. There are no ultras, so it’s not that loud, no fireworks, not so organized chanting. Still great, but definitely different.
Greetings from Dortmund/Germany ,our Club the BvB make it to the Uefa Cl Final last night,the first time since 2013! Final ist hosted by the famous Wembley Stadium in the UK on First of June
@@TheCornishCockney yes because of all these amazing english teams...these teams that dominate europe tournaments...oh wait you guys are eliminate my bad ^^ and you only invest billions of euro in your teams or pound for uk people with money from oil-countrys like saudi or qatar yeah you guys are absolute amazing thumps up...
Just for completion, this is the positive side of the ultras when they are going crazy in a positive way, but there is a backside of the medal when they get crazy in a negative way. My impression is the last few years we have seen far more of the positive side.
Yeah. There are often violent once, that even go for the stuff members that are only there to make sure everyone is doing ok and to completle unrelated people.
Fun Fact, at every Game from 1. FC Köln (Cologne) in this Video I´m seen! Imagine you travel to London with your Club, you conquer the city with 25000 Fans. It was awesome!
@@laziojohnny79 What are you on about. The only times you got thousands of footballfans in the streets is when german fans come over. Stop being a btch cause your fanculture in the first two divisions died decades ago.
Don't forget, they also go with 25k or even much more people to the opposing teams stadium and do it there to support their team. Even to other countries.
Despite this the fans in Germany have got a lot of influence (indirectly). It was in discussion that external inverstors should pay a lot of money for getting a lot of influence (f.e. on dates of some games which they exclusivly wanted to broadcast (on extra days sometimes not at the weekend andby this a lot of fans wouldn't be able to watch them any more because they had to work). Furthermore a warning example is England where investors own the Premier League = higher TV-prices, very high ticket-prices. In combination To show their protest for several weeks they threw tennisballs on the pitch which interrupted the games again and again. In the end the Bundesliga gave up their investor fans. 🙂
Almost all Europe Countrys have had fought against each other, even City against City, or got conquered by the strongest, and fight back, and so on. Europe is born on Fights and Wars, and some Wisdom. And Football ist the beautiful Way, to fight those ancient Fights without Weapons. Sports with Rules is a Good Way to do it. ♥
8:45 The greatest thing about all those flares is that you hear the phrase "Please refain from using pyrotechnics in the stands as its extremely dangerous" through the stadiums speakers EVERY SINGLE TIME. ........ :D
My personal favourite in terms of "Club loyalty" is Alemannia Aachen. 4th league (recently promoted to third) from a relatively "small" city (Aachen), yet they have thousand upon thousands of live viewers in the Stadium.
It's usually quite chill and family friendly too, there are certain areas for the ultras but there are also areas for families with kids. At most places at least.
You definitely have to watch a video of the ultras and choreographies of Borussia Dortmund (BvB). The "Yellow Wall" in the Westfalenstation is world-famous.
9:07 This is called a fan march. where fans are marching before the game to get in "the mood". mostly seen before Special games or the beginning of the new season.
The Euro finals are coming up mid June to mid July, the tournament will be held in Germany, this type of club support will be there, but this time, rival supporters of each nations clubs will put aside their differences and get together to support their Country, again is a magical moment, both on the Euro finals, as well as on the World cup finals.
The club is part of the family. So it is a matter of the heart. It doesn't matter whether the club is doing well or badly. Club loyalty goes from the cradle to the grave. Every club has its own anthem. In the USA, people go to sports to see a show and to be seen.
The Copa90 channel has some great documentary TV style videos on their channel talking about the ultras more in depth, the history and lifestyle of the people and why they do what they do.
In Germany and most countries where football is so big, ultras live more than 90 minutes of watching football. They go to every game, make choreographies or new tifo material during the week. Especially the very hot choreographies, which sometimes cost 20-30,000 € depending on the situation and are only financed by the fans and then built themselves, are neglected in the video. Plus the pyrotechnics, which are forbidden but are a large part of fan culture. There are also occasional physical confrontations with opposing ultras and the police or prearranged fights.
Btw Schalke fans (first few clips) are insane: they now play 2nd division and their average attendance this season was 61,5k (10th worldwide) Great video!
The Ultras subculture is not really about "sports". It is more about identity, and it is highly territorial and sometimes generational. For the ultras, the game on the pitch is rather something like a proxy war than a "sport event". You can say it is "savage", but on the other hand it is also more "authentic" than the sterilized American sports events.
those are ultras u can watcha game chill in the opposite side of the stadium and watching this spectacle from there while eating a hotdog with a coke. its all ur choise
The first clip was from Spain - but the fans were German. That was back when Schalke (the greatest club of all) was still playing internationally and not 2. Bundesliga. When German clubs travel abroad, the fans come with them and they take over towns. Two years ago - season 2022/23 - when Eintracht Frankfurt won the Europa League, some towns even forbid the sale of tickets to Frankfurt fans to keep the "German invasion force" out - and to give their own home teams an adventage of course. Didn't work since Frankfurt won the cup anyway.
those fires are obviously forbidden in the stadium, but it's hard to enforce that since there's just way too many fans in those stands and not enough security to safely remove them D: so in more extreme cases the clubs that those fans cheer for have to pay a fine
the world knows,here at the millerntor we have the best fans. we love our club,our neighborhood and what FC ST.Pauli stands for. equality,peace,friendship between people and a love for the game. FORZA ST.PAULI!
1:49 The police vans have yellow license plates, so they are dutch. The fans of Schalke 04 from Gelsenkirchen, Germany, followed their team in a continental match to the Netherlands.
That first clip, from Schalke 04? They're the arch-enemies of my local football club (Borussia Dortmund, clip #3). When they played each other, people working with both fan groups in either city used to collect the Schalke Ultras at the train station and brought them to a place -- a field, or parking lot -- where "our" Ultras were already waiting. Then both groups were given permission to brawl, with medics and police present just in case. The rationale was to put a cap on possible aggression beforehand and keep it out of the stadium. Afterwards, they were marched separately to the stadium, watched the game and afterwards were brought back to that place to get rid of any frustration and anger by being permitted to brawl AGAIN. No idea if they're still doing this, but a friend who worked for the municipal sports department said it worked, after a fashion. Meaning, no severe injuries, no property damage and everything was kept kinda, sorta, more or less ... uh, civilized? *whistles innocently* Btw, the area for the local Borussia fans is known nationwide as "the yellow wall" (club colors are black and yellow) and are often considered to be the 12th player on the field because they can spur the team on so much Oh, and they only sell drinks in plastic cups; players and/or referees have actually been injured when someone hurled a glass bottle onto the pitch. (One referee got hit in the face by a cigarette lighter once, too.) The guys in the yellow vests and helmets aren't police, but volunteer helpers who check for contraband -- like pyrotechnics and "weapons" like sticks or brass knuckles.
Its important to say that these fans showed are away fans in an international game and not in their home ground/city. To have a parade with all awayfans together from the city center to the stadium of the opponent it is what fans do in football instead of tailgate in the US (what i find also really cool)
I strongly suggest you to watch the final of the Champion's League 15 of June ! Expect some insane supporting ! Borussia Dortmund is already qualified !
Hi Ian !! You might want to look into the football culture in South America as well. Especially in Argentina and Brazil, with the matches between Boca Jrs vs River Plate in Buenos Aires and between Flamengo vs Fluminence in Rio de Janeiro at the Maracana stadium. They are equally mad/exelent fans !!
The eastern germany Clubs with theire Fans are insane too. Like Hansa Rostock , Dynamo Dresden, Union Berlin , Magdeburg , they like theire Fire aswell 😅
In Germany, as in the rest of Europe, you are a fan of the club your father and grandfather supported before you. This is usually the club of your hometown, with which you identify 100%, and at every game, you represent your club, your city, and your family. It is hard for outsiders to understand such a thing. The club holds a very high status. I know families who no longer speak to each other because they support rival clubs.
Maybe another fact that is special. From where I live in Germany, 25 Minutes to Mönchengladbach (Black/White - Minute 12:12), about 2h to Geselnkirchen (Schalke 04 from the start of the video), even about 2 h to Dortmund (yellow/black), Paris 3h by train, London about 6h by train (from here Manchester and Liverpool are easy to reach) , if you took the plane you can reach Barcelona and Madrid in less than 5 h (includes the transfer to the Airport). By American standards (I would imagine), the absolute top football clubs (worldwide) are packed together in a very small space.
"What you might not know is that most of the clips were from away matches involving German fans in England."
Absteiger
Nur der Svd💙🤍
There was just one Clip from a home game. And all the fan marches are most likely away games of the champions league in other europen countrys. This marches happening not every game just befor special once.
wir sind eben aus tradition anders :D
Hier regiert der SVD🔵⚪️⚜️!
In europe most of the clubs won‘t give their number „12“ to a player, since there are 11 soccer players on the pitch and one player is off the pitch… the crowd is the 12th men indeed
"Most" is a exaggeration. More like "some"
@@bogdanhify I dont see clubs like Oil City, RB Leipzig…. as „clubs“.
played in a village football team. thats the exact reason i got the 13 instead of the 12 :D
@@support4583 normal people dont see u as a normal human too...
@@support4583 what else if not clubs. if you are still one who thinks football is about tradition, you need to get you head out of your pink unicorns ass. it's all about business in all top tier leagues. and not just business, it's full of corruption in all clubs and their sponsors. the "tradition" is just a fluffy dream some disillusional people still dream. get over it and face the world how it is.
These ultras are only on one of the four stands of a European stadium, the other three are for families and "normal" people :)
Thats not true in all countries.
Establishment sheep with no personality spotted
That is not it at all. Two OPPOSITE corners of the stadium are for the ultras. One corner for each team
Come see what it's like in Australia. 100,000 fans at an Australian rules grand final with no flares, no gang fights, a big happy family including young kids, one, maybe two morons at best. Biggest weekly attendances of any sport in the world per capita, and fourth highest overall regardless of the population. if you don't know about it, search for, "What is AFL, Aussie rules explained." 🇦🇺🦘
@@AllLivezmatter ok usualy one block on the oposite site for the away fans,but its not the whole stand :)
3:30 was probably the section dedicated for the fans of the away team so the home fans where still arriving
Yep , these were german fans( Dortmund) in England
British tourist fans taking pictures of real fans.
These are Dortmund fans at the Emirates(Arsenal)
@@armitage9204 Talked to some older english footballfans on my job and they called them plastic fans. I think it goes back to the high prices for tickets which destroyed their fan culture in the first two divisions, so its like creditcard fans.
These were all scenes (except the 8:07 one) from German away games in Europe.
To prevent a fight between the Ultras in a high risk game like Dortmund vs. Schalke the home and away team are separated by police from each other before, during and after the game.
These walks to the stadium, are usually the away fans. The fans arrive with special trains and get escorted by the police to the stadium to avoid contact with the local fans.
At the end was Arsenal v 1.FC Koln. I was there. As an Arsenal fan. I was impressed.
Of course you were, because every German fanbase or proper Ultras scene outside of England is taking over your theatre in London.
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@@stipe9773 the few English Football fans are watching German Football anyway
@@VantommHD Or 3rd 4th division english football.
What is important to me is that the ultras do not only use the events to support, but also to express their opinions about things that happen in other areas of life. When many thousands, many tens of thousands of people shout something, you can't help but pay attention.
3:30 in Europe fans are often devided, into sections and they enter/leave the stadium at different times, so they won't kill each other, when coming across.
There are even some stadiums, where fans of each team have their own sections at nearby trainstations divided by fences and of course so they won't sit in the same train/tram/bus.
and thats the reason why I will never attend a Football Match with my little son. I go to Ice Hockey Games with him, they are just fun
@@tennents7843 There is no problem with that. I was never a big football fan but I was 4 when I was the first time at a football match with my dad (Schalke vs Dortmund, whicht is considered very dangerous) and it's as "dangerous" as going to an opera for normal people. "Casual fans" are also devided from "hardcore fans" and ultras. There is actually even no way for a normal person to get tickets for sections where fireworks and all that stuff happens.
People who just want to casually watch a match will absolutely not come into contact with any of this ultra stuff.
9:27 this was the first International Game in Years for the 1.FC Köln against London, and to support the Team, round about 35000 Fans drive to England even they have no Tickets for the Game. 😅
against which london? tottenham, west ham, arsenal, chelsea, crystal palace, fulham?
@@PanAm747Clipper Arsenal
@@x_Heisenberg_x ok
Ultras are the player #12 they are a KEY element IN THE GAME. They are the atmosphere, the support, they give that extra push to the players so they keep on fighting. Ultras travel with their team to support them in wherever city or county they go play. Win or lose they are there chanting cheering for their team. RESPECT!!! Btw one corner (curva) of the stadium is for the ultras of the home team and the opposite curva is for the away team. You will never ever sit them near each other, that will not be good 😅
In Europe the other sections apart from the Ultras sections are for those who just want to sit down and watch the game unfold. Sometimes I even forget about the game when I'm just watching and listening to the ultras
Cologne vs. Arsenal away from home. I was There and I will Never forget those Come on Effzeh ❤
Das letzte Wort hab ich erst gar nicht verstanden und dann so....aaah!😂 Greetings from the Ruhrgebiet
@@Winona493 😅
As an Englishman,I can only applaud the ultras in pretty much every European country.
Been to many of the games over there following Manchester United and the atmosphere was always top notch.
Dortmund were special when we went there and the Yellow Wall is impressive as was Schalke but the best I ever saw was at Fenerbache in Istanbul,Turkey.
At one point,3 quarters of the stadium looked it was on fire,and the chanting was deafening.
If the fans go overboard the team is punished. Either fans (income) are banned and they have a so called “ghost game” or they have to pay a fine. Also the fireworks are prohibited (bengal lights).
Here in germany and other european or south american countrys Football is just More Than a Sport for some people.
Its for life
It‘s also true that there are standout football clubs like Schalke 04 in Gesenkirchen who serve as a way to allow for men to gather together and be proud about something, follow their tribal instincts to group together and let loose.
Gelsenkirchen is the second most poorest county in all of Germany because they used to have great steel manufacturing and coal mining in the region called the Ruhrpott, but after structural changes and a lot of unemployment and foreign immigrants, Schalke as an institution is one of the pillars of societal cohesion thereabouts.
Reading a lot lately of male disheartenement and dissatisfaction, I have come to understand the value of institutions and traditions like old football clubs a lot more.
As a student at Uni I used to be annoyed as all heck when taking the train home and finding out that it was some important game in the Pott,
having to maneuver around drunk men at 10 am,
singing their songs in the train cars,
being greeted by police in the thousands at the station where I needed to change trains,
to be constantly watchful not to be caught in the middle of scuffles between opposing fan groups as to not get pushed off the platform with all my luggage.
However, I have mellowed quite a bit watching videos such as this, looking less at the obstruction to public life such as traffic jams, closed off roads, drunk men at lunch time being obnoxious in the inner city before the games.
1:42 This is actually a normal sight at large games. Away team fans are brought in by train, collected at the railway station by the Rozzers and then marched to the stadium to prevent pre-game riots. Deutsche Bahn (railway company) often runs dedicated extra trains for the incoming fans, so they don't travel on regular trains.
I wish…there are a lot of ‚regular fans‘ causing enough riot without having to belong to the Ultras….
@@lynnm6413 Ultras are generally not violent. The term comes from 'ultra loyal fans'. Some well known footballers like Manuel Neuer have been Ultras. The people you were thinking about are Hooligans. That's a completely different group.
@@dschoene57 I have to disagree with you there.
As a German citizen, hailing from the Ruhrgebiet originally, I had to travel by train returning home from Uni a lot of weekends with fans of various football clubs, traveling to and sometimes, if rarely, from a game.
Those were hardly the hardcore hooligans or ultras, which often get separate trains to limit the chance of any meeting opposing fans.
I also lived in Hannover very close to the stadium, I could hear the chants from my room, so no…
I was referring to the regular drunken male football fan, singing fan songs during the train ride, getting into minor scuffles on train platforms scaring all the rest of the passengers and hitting on women in the inner city while being unable to string three sentences together in the middle of the day.
Harmless doesn‘t equal welcome, ya know?!
I was watching your video for 20 seconds when my eye spotted the can of Wolters-Pils. 🍻 Best regards from Brunswick/Braunschweig
Youre right. “The 12th man” is what good fans in Germany are called.
When you say the crowd is like an extra player on the field. Well, we call them "de twaalfde man" here, which literaly translates to "the 12th man". (the other 11 are on the field for those that don't know the math in football).
In Germany we say this as well!
Zwölfter Mann 👍🏻
Gotta remember that most of these are away fans, hundreds of miles away from home, mostly in other countrys and usually on a random tuesday or wednesday evening
I remember being at a Champion's league game in Milan some 13 years ago, (Inter vs Schalke 04) and the German fans were absolutely insane in the city before and after the game, great memory!
I am Portuguese. This weekend was the end of The championship ended with the victory of my club Sporting. We all went out to celebrate.
Congrats to Sporting. Well done
3:30 This is the section for the away Fans, these Fans travelled from Dortmund, Germany to London to support their Team in the international game ( Champions League, the top league in whole europe.) And they do this to every game, no matter how far, this is what Football means to us.
These fans are a really great support for the Team.
It's not only football. In most of the hockey stadiums in Germany there's also a good fan culture. Especially in older halls like Straubing or Iserlohn.
IN The US these would be classed as Riots.
We British, German, Italian, Spanish and EU as a whole are very happy to more Free than Americans when it comes to this sort of fun.
More free than in America…..those are fighting words over there…lol. 🤣🤣🤣
@@lynnm6413 Want to take us on, go right ahead 🙂
@@raystewart3648 I‘m German, dude…?! 🙄
@@lynnm6413 how happy for you.
I love it. 5 days in the office and at the matchday a lot of energy needs to break out.
Ultras are crazy all over Europe. As long as they behave, it's just sports craze. ^^
Well, the pyrotechnics are already dangerous and out of line but they just won't see reason.
@@DerEchteBoldthere are less people who get hurt from Pyro then from 1312😉
If you afraid of pyro watch match on tv
@@mntssth5004
That's not the point, I'd never pay money for that anyways, it's illegal in the first place, the clubs and associations just don't have the balls to really enforce their rules.
I don't know if it's the uploader or YT but somehow fascist censorship deleted my reply to the other one so I can't eloborate on that.
@@DerEchteBold because there is no "reason".
Pyro was never illegal for 20-30 years, until the Politicians decided to make it illegal, claiming that pyro is dangerous, wich is not true, if its not thrown into groups of people. Its a Part of the Fan culture, and it should have never been banned. But makes no difference anyway
That's why football (the real kind) is the most popular sport in the world. There's nothing like going with 4-5000 of your teammates and friends to another city, wave your flags through the streets, sing the songs of your team and basically occupy the center and drink all the beer. Last time I did that was in Germany and my team (a Bulgarian team - Levski Sofia) was playing away in Frankfurt. Really is something else to see and experience.
Next month, June, it will be Being Euro 2024, it's going to be crazy in Europe.
Yeah yeah yeah 😎👍
Usually at Euro‘s and WC the atmosphere is different. St least in Europe. There are no ultras, so it’s not that loud, no fireworks, not so organized chanting. Still great, but definitely different.
I work in the old town of Cologne, the club at the end 1 Fc köln, and its been crazy full
@@memyselfandeye1
Scots & Dutch: Hold my beer.
@@shadowfox009xyes true. The vibe is fantastic!! We’re all so in love with the Scots, aren’t we?! We want them to come back… 🎉❤
Greetings from Dortmund/Germany ,our Club the BvB make it to the Uefa Cl Final last night,the first time since 2013!
Final ist hosted by the famous Wembley Stadium in the UK on First of June
Geiles Spiel! Glückwunsch und viel Glück fürs Finale. Grüße nach Dortmand vom zukünftigen Aufsteiger aus Kiel (fingers crossed) :D
@@JohnTitor00 Danke dir :) Kiel und St. Pauli bitte aufsteigen,blos nicht der HSV!:)
As a Manchester United fan,I really hope BvB go on and win it,but you can keep Sancho,the premier league in England is too hard and fast for him.
@@TheCornishCockney he is welcome here but unfortunately we can't afford his salary...
@@TheCornishCockney yes because of all these amazing english teams...these teams that dominate europe tournaments...oh wait you guys are eliminate my bad ^^ and you only invest billions of euro in your teams or pound for uk people with money from oil-countrys like saudi or qatar yeah you guys are absolute amazing thumps up...
Just for completion, this is the positive side of the ultras when they are going crazy in a positive way, but there is a backside of the medal when they get crazy in a negative way. My impression is the last few years we have seen far more of the positive side.
Yeah. There are often violent once, that even go for the stuff members that are only there to make sure everyone is doing ok and to completle unrelated people.
Fun Fact, at every Game from 1. FC Köln (Cologne) in this Video I´m seen! Imagine you travel to London with your Club, you conquer the city with 25000 Fans. It was awesome!
How exactly did you ‘‘conquer’’ the city? Did you chase the London firms through the streets? Or even faced one of them?
@@laziojohnny79 Pretty easy to hunt down empty suits.
Common, you know what he meant.
@@hw2508 I do, but traveling to London, drinking a pint and attending a match isn't something I would call conquering the city.
@@laziojohnny79 Let them have their experience. At least they don't leave early when their team does not win.
@@laziojohnny79 What are you on about. The only times you got thousands of footballfans in the streets is when german fans come over. Stop being a btch cause your fanculture in the first two divisions died decades ago.
Don't forget, they also go with 25k or even much more people to the opposing teams stadium and do it there to support their team. Even to other countries.
Despite this the fans in Germany have got a lot of influence (indirectly). It was in discussion that external inverstors should pay a lot of money for getting a lot of influence (f.e. on dates of some games which they exclusivly wanted to broadcast (on extra days sometimes not at the weekend andby this a lot of fans wouldn't be able to watch them any more because they had to work). Furthermore a warning example is England where investors own the Premier League = higher TV-prices, very high ticket-prices. In combination To show their protest for several weeks they threw tennisballs on the pitch which interrupted the games again and again. In the end the Bundesliga gave up their investor fans. 🙂
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Almost all Europe Countrys have had fought against each other, even City against City, or got conquered by the strongest, and fight back, and so on.
Europe is born on Fights and Wars, and some Wisdom.
And Football ist the beautiful Way, to fight those ancient Fights without Weapons. Sports with Rules is a Good Way to do it. ♥
FRANKFURT!!!🦅
i worked in the HSV Hamburg Stadium for about 4 years and in Berlin olympia stadium couple times. It was awesome! So nice atmosphere.
8:45
The greatest thing about all those flares is that you hear the phrase
"Please refain from using pyrotechnics in the stands as its extremely dangerous"
through the stadiums speakers EVERY SINGLE TIME.
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:D
My personal favourite in terms of "Club loyalty" is Alemannia Aachen. 4th league (recently promoted to third) from a relatively "small" city (Aachen), yet they have thousand upon thousands of live viewers in the Stadium.
intimidation ! imagine 5.000 dudes from another city brawling through your street shouting and yelling with the drums ? lol
That ist Schalke!⚒️💙🤍🤙😈 Greats from Germany!
nice reaction! Hansa Rostock!!!! OLE! greets from germany, baltic coast
Great appetizer for todays Champions league semi final.
It's usually quite chill and family friendly too, there are certain areas for the ultras but there are also areas for families with kids. At most places at least.
You definitely have to watch a video of the ultras and choreographies of Borussia Dortmund (BvB). The "Yellow Wall" in the Westfalenstation is world-famous.
1. Fc Köln 🔴⚪
Mer stonn zu dir
rrooooot und wiss
Freue mich schon auf die Duelle gegen euch in der dritten.
@@JimmyS.25 Aww süß
In Germany, by law, 51% of shares belong to fans
Club members, to be more specific.
Thats true love for the Team! Spend all ur little money to be part of ur Team every weekend.
you can change your name, you can change your sex, you can change your religion... but you can never change your club...^^
Schalke has one of the best Ultras in the World
9:07 This is called a fan march. where fans are marching before the game to get in "the mood". mostly seen before Special games or the beginning of the new season.
yeah many germans still seem very coordinated with the shout into arm movement stuff xd
guest fans have to enter the stadium earlier as the home crowd in most cases(or something in that direction). thats why it still was so empty at 3:40
NBA fans switch their teams every season
Part of the crew, part of the ship.
The Euro finals are coming up mid June to mid July, the tournament will be held in Germany, this type of club support will be there, but this time, rival supporters of each nations clubs will put aside their differences and get together to support their Country, again is a magical moment, both on the Euro finals, as well as on the World cup finals.
Best beer in the world in your Background. Wolters Pilsener its from my hometown :) nice
The club is part of the family. So it is a matter of the heart. It doesn't matter whether the club is doing well or badly. Club loyalty goes from the cradle to the grave. Every club has its own anthem. In the USA, people go to sports to see a show and to be seen.
The Copa90 channel has some great documentary TV style videos on their channel talking about the ultras more in depth, the history and lifestyle of the people and why they do what they do.
In Germany and most countries where football is so big, ultras live more than 90 minutes of watching football. They go to every game, make choreographies or new tifo material during the week. Especially the very hot choreographies, which sometimes cost 20-30,000 € depending on the situation and are only financed by the fans and then built themselves, are neglected in the video. Plus the pyrotechnics, which are forbidden but are a large part of fan culture. There are also occasional physical confrontations with opposing ultras and the police or prearranged fights.
Btw Schalke fans (first few clips) are insane: they now play 2nd division and their average attendance this season was 61,5k (10th worldwide)
Great video!
Shame the Vid that you watched skippet the Framkfurt Ultras entirely and the Gelbe Wand in Dortmund. Must be an Beginner who produced it 🤣
Would say the producer saw that these two clips were already shown im every single ultra video and wanted smth different
Even then, they are missing. Barcelona vs. Frankfurt is a must in this topic.
I'm from Germany but I'm an NFL fan and we're looking forward to more NFL games
Entertainment vs. Passion. That's it.
„Wir sind keine Fusballfans, sondern deutsche Hooligans“
I highly recommend that Top Gear Tunnel video of the Audi quattro S1! It's a bit off topic but it's great!
The Ultras subculture is not really about "sports". It is more about identity, and it is highly territorial and sometimes generational. For the ultras, the game on the pitch is rather something like a proxy war than a "sport event". You can say it is "savage", but on the other hand it is also more "authentic" than the sterilized American sports events.
THIS! @IWrocker
yeah! you nailed it!!!!
Beside of one scene, this was all German Away Support in European Cup Tournaments.
those are ultras u can watcha game chill in the opposite side of the stadium and watching this
spectacle from there while eating a hotdog with a coke. its all ur choise
Some fans are escorted by the police from the requisite train and bus stations
Yes ihr bin Part of this Next time Servus for 2.Bundesliga Ultras
there are some good videos of NBA players talking about their time in Euroleague
German Fans are the best in Europe, but the video doesn't show how crazy it realy is
The first clip was from Spain - but the fans were German. That was back when Schalke (the greatest club of all) was still playing internationally and not 2. Bundesliga. When German clubs travel abroad, the fans come with them and they take over towns. Two years ago - season 2022/23 - when Eintracht Frankfurt won the Europa League, some towns even forbid the sale of tickets to Frankfurt fans to keep the "German invasion force" out - and to give their own home teams an adventage of course. Didn't work since Frankfurt won the cup anyway.
Fußball is really crazy in Germany AND in Britain as well!!! Well, they "invented" it, right?😂
those fires are obviously forbidden in the stadium, but it's hard to enforce that since there's just way too many fans in those stands and not enough security to safely remove them D: so in more extreme cases the clubs that those fans cheer for have to pay a fine
the world knows,here at the millerntor we have the best fans. we love our club,our neighborhood and what FC ST.Pauli stands for. equality,peace,friendship between people and a love for the game. FORZA ST.PAULI!
1:49 The police vans have yellow license plates, so they are dutch.
The fans of Schalke 04 from Gelsenkirchen, Germany, followed their team in a continental match to the Netherlands.
This is something you don’t have in the US and will never ever have.
That's the passion of the most beautiful game! ; )
That first clip, from Schalke 04? They're the arch-enemies of my local football club (Borussia Dortmund, clip #3). When they played each other, people working with both fan groups in either city used to collect the Schalke Ultras at the train station and brought them to a place -- a field, or parking lot -- where "our" Ultras were already waiting. Then both groups were given permission to brawl, with medics and police present just in case. The rationale was to put a cap on possible aggression beforehand and keep it out of the stadium. Afterwards, they were marched separately to the stadium, watched the game and afterwards were brought back to that place to get rid of any frustration and anger by being permitted to brawl AGAIN.
No idea if they're still doing this, but a friend who worked for the municipal sports department said it worked, after a fashion. Meaning, no severe injuries, no property damage and everything was kept kinda, sorta, more or less ... uh, civilized? *whistles innocently*
Btw, the area for the local Borussia fans is known nationwide as "the yellow wall" (club colors are black and yellow) and are often considered to be the 12th player on the field because they can spur the team on so much
Oh, and they only sell drinks in plastic cups; players and/or referees have actually been injured when someone hurled a glass bottle onto the pitch. (One referee got hit in the face by a cigarette lighter once, too.) The guys in the yellow vests and helmets aren't police, but volunteer helpers who check for contraband -- like pyrotechnics and "weapons" like sticks or brass knuckles.
Its important to say that these fans showed are away fans in an international game and not in their home ground/city. To have a parade with all awayfans together from the city center to the stadium of the opponent it is what fans do in football instead of tailgate in the US (what i find also really cool)
I strongly suggest you to watch the final of the Champion's League 15 of June ! Expect some insane supporting !
Borussia Dortmund is already qualified !
Hi Ian !! You might want to look into the football culture in South America as well. Especially in Argentina and Brazil, with the matches between Boca Jrs vs River Plate in Buenos Aires and between Flamengo vs Fluminence in Rio de Janeiro at the Maracana stadium. They are equally mad/exelent fans !!
I'm german but this is always crazy for me too!
The crowed of Köln Fans were visiting a Game in London! It was not even in Germany :-))
I love to see you Americans watch to German Ultras. I am one by myself, and I love it.
you should look at Hanover vs Brunswig (96 vs BTSV) they have a deep rivalry so the pyro and stuff are always something else
In germany the fans are caled the 12 man
Today you can watch history. Dortmund is taking over London. They are everywhere. Today is the peak of european football
The eastern germany Clubs with theire Fans are insane too. Like Hansa Rostock , Dynamo Dresden, Union Berlin , Magdeburg , they like theire Fire aswell 😅
In Germany, as in the rest of Europe, you are a fan of the club your father and grandfather supported before you. This is usually the club of your hometown, with which you identify 100%, and at every game, you represent your club, your city, and your family. It is hard for outsiders to understand such a thing. The club holds a very high status. I know families who no longer speak to each other because they support rival clubs.
The first one were Dutch police.
Maybe another fact that is special. From where I live in Germany, 25 Minutes to Mönchengladbach (Black/White - Minute 12:12), about 2h to Geselnkirchen (Schalke 04 from the start of the video), even about 2 h to Dortmund (yellow/black), Paris 3h by train, London about 6h by train (from here Manchester and Liverpool are easy to reach) , if you took the plane you can reach Barcelona and Madrid in less than 5 h (includes the transfer to the Airport). By American standards (I would imagine), the absolute top football clubs (worldwide) are packed together in a very small space.
Yellow???? Bitte berichtige das !
That's why we call the fan the 12th man
Hey I like your content. I think it could be very interesting to make a video about how german ultras stopped a deal with an investor in the dfl.
You have to feel it yourself. A Tipp ... The most havy Partys are at and of the season... April to May... This is the time who everone get crazy.