@@matejbatinic3104 It's a joke, there's a running joke on the internet about slavs, about how people do things in the US, but in Russia it's the opposite.
@@sebastiansimota1562 I've seen some Argentinians and Brazilians go to extreme on a regular basis, my team literally put 30k+ people on Japan in 2012 club world cup, travels here are not as kind as Europe
@@ryubix5724 i dont doubt that but now we are 70 years later they are lots of new and not so new club everywhere some pro some semi pro amateur everywhere
@@zodinpuiapunte8430 english premier league is ruined by oil money. The championship downwards and some of the smaller prem clubs like leeds have passionate fans. The only big club in england with a decent atmosphere is liverpool. I think we forget that the old firm derby can have an incredible atmosphere too
There's different kinds of chants. Usually there's one that's some kind of love song to the club. AS Roma has two very beautiful love songs written by famous songwriter Antonello Venditti dedicated to the team he loves. Every fan can sing them. Then there are shorter ones that are also meant to show support to your team and basically most of the times it's just the name of the team and something like "let's go". And then there are chants specifically to mock the other team. Of those there exist two categories: the first is just general and can be used on any opponent team, the second is specifically made for a certain opponent team (usually it's for teams that have a big rivalry, like when they are from the same city). Those can be very vulgar,at least as far as I know in Greece and Italy.
That struck me when he watched the Red Star fans and there was a loud bang at 11:08, he immediately says "Was that a gunshot?!" It's just unimagineable for a European that there should be a gunshot in a public place.
@@dunsonhouse That's also why the whole home advantage thing is actually true. Visiting teams aren't facing the home team. They're facing the home team and their supporters. I'm pretty sure any american professional basketball player who's been active in Europe will tell you the same thing.
@@boxonothing4087 in the 95’ Rugby World Cup final. A plane flew low over the stadium with the words “Go Bokke” emblazoned under the wings. The South Africans also with the crowd at their backs stared down the All Black Haka. The stadium they played it at is quite on top of the players so when you are on the pitch it feels like the crowd is on your back. And too this day I believe the Springboks are still undefeated at that stadium.
A lot of Ultras members spend the whole game singing and chanting, with limited attention to what happens on the pitch, then to go home and watch the rerun of the game! Not just the highlights, but the full game!
The pyro is for creating an heavy Athmosphere along with the chants, choreo, flags and smoke its just intimidating for the opponent and therefor helping your own team
Americans wonder: why chants? why flares? why the open aggression? the answer: European football is the (more) peaceful continuation of war. In Switzerland the sports-department is even called: Department for Sports and Military. That sums it up, for you guys 😂 it also explains the 1944 Flag you see in the Vid at 6:26.
at 6:50 it´s not about scaring the other team but to demonstrate to "UEFA" who holds the tournament and european cup. They are clearly corrupt and doesn´t treat the smaller clubs equal to the bigger and more famous ones..
@@dunsonhouse It's from Warsaw, i was at this game. It's all about how precise are UEFA in penalising small clubs like Legia when every time that thing happens on "Zyleta" club gets tons of euro penalty for pirotechnics
Every team as a song book, and its always changing. There are old favorites and new ones that capture a particular season or player. When a new song really takes off it has a lot of energy.
When you see thousands of your brothers jumping and singing the same chorus on the stand, when you feel the passion, madness, pride to your city/club/country that’s the best feeling in the world... Our style - ultras life 🔥
You wouldn't have to be scared to attend - everyone supporting the same team are allies, consider them a friend you haven't met yet. No one would harm you, you are safe.
That’s exactly how it was, I remember the Play-Off final in 2017 when town got promoted to the prem, we ended up celebrating with about 100/200 people after the game and it was the best week of my life
@@dunsonhouse In addition to that the fans of the aways team are completly seperated by fences and are seated in a special area of the stadium. Depending on what team the home club is facing the fans are even seperated all the way from the main railroad station to the stadium. They recieve special trains and are escorted by police forces.
Being in those crowds is exhilarating. Even if you don't know the songs or chants, they just lift you off and you ride along like a born fan right of the bat. The fans are also extremely welcoming-- as long as you cheer for *their* club, that is.
In Belgrad, at Red Star Belgrad's home ground, even the architecture of the stadium can scare the other team. The players tunnel looks like an old station tunnel with grafity. You can hear the noise of jumping and chanting fans and walk out right infront of the main stand of the home suporters. There is a POV of walking this on youtube.
being in those crowds week after week you really get into the culture of the club, you become a family with all the fans, you make friends with regulars. Football is more than just a game to many of these people here, it's a way of life. Standing in one of those stadiums really reminds you about how much power humanity has with a little unity.
@@dunsonhouse I live I Spain and it’s incredible, sometimes when Barcelona is going to play against Madrid is crazy but funny I love football but respect to basketball 🤝
There are not only Ultras in Europe, but also in Latin America (mainly in Brazil and Argentina, Argentine fans are crazy, you have to see them) and in North Africa (those are crazy too) . Greetings from Brazil !
@@lotakom6992 At no time did I say that the South American ultras are crazier than the Balkans, including many of the ultras in this video are from the Balkans, I just said that there are Ultras outside Europe!
eastern europe supporters are the craziest (greece, turkey, ex-jugoslavia countries)! every time our teams are going to play on their pitch we're like "oh shit this is gonna be a war!" 😂
Many different chants and many different types of choreo in different parts of Europe. In UK you can't light signal lights or fires but in Bulgaria you can tear down the stadium if you want. You have up to 2000 police at some games. The CSKA Sofia chant for example goes like this: "Since childhood you lit fire in my heart! I will always be true to CSKA!"
I went to the derby in Sofia twice (standing for CSKA) as I lived there for 2 years, I was able to hold a flare in the "presidential" stand, the other time I was amongst the ultras and at the start of the second half it was impossible to see the game for 5 minutes, loved it. The corteos pre game were amazing too.
I'm from Germany and a huge football fan (or like americans say a soccer fan). And for me it is like a must, that the fans sing and so on in order to push and motivate the team on the pitch. The bengalflares are to visualize emotions and to make a choreo more visual and to make the picture of it more impressive, its some kind of a contest between the ultragroups. The number of Policemen depends on the game itself, how much conflict-potential there is between the fans. When there is a derby, a match between clubs where the fans are very agressive against the others, there is much more police, the police in Germany call it "Hochrisikospiel", in english like "Highriskmatch" (just word4word translation sorry :D) For myself, i'm almost 27 and i can't just watch the game when my team is on the pitch. I have to sing, jump and applaus. I love it this way and can't imagine it right now without it and theres nothing else in the world i'm more exited for to finally return to a full stadium and support the team like before covid.
@@dunsonhouse yeah. they send riot police like in battalion sizes to keep the teams apart. the visiting team's fans have to stay at the statium until the home team's are gone and they use different entrances and stuff
The engineering of German stadiums are insane! The amount of stress they can take is incredible! Now add cheap tickets, cheap beer and that by law the fans have to be the majority shareholder in the clubs
These aren’t National chants. These are chants sung by the supporters of individual teams in every different countries domestic leagues. Most nations in Europe have top divisions with 20 teams and second, third, etc division teams all with their own unique chants. What they all say, I’m not sure. National teams have their own chants that they sing at National team games for their respective countries. Here in America, sports are for spectators, in Europe teams are independent religions haha their clubs have been around in some cases since the 1800’s so they’ve had more time to develop through different economic situations while in America all of our sports are relatively new and have all been put on through capitalism which has its own priorities which has shaped the game day experience for comfort rather than ferocity.
We europeans love pyrotechnics in stadiums. That's our mentality (ok something around 50% of europeans lets be honest-not every single person like it) but It's always adds colours to the stands. Also there is a big difference beetween stadium and arena. Stadiums woke in us emotions which i can't descripe. It's just literally another world
1) each game has the number of police officers according to their importance and who the two teams are on the field 2) each team has its own songs and they range from helping the team to mock rivals and the football federation itself 3) flares are theoretically prohibited But the clubs and the police turn blind eye 4) fire flares and etc. happen just before the start of the game and sometimes the referee has to wait for a few minutes until the match can start 5) each game presents its history, scenes like you saw in the video are not unique, they are commonplace, but they are also special, a national championship season has an average of 38 games, you won't see the crowd doing that in 10 of those games! usually this kind of party precedes a very important game.
The flares all around was PAOK Tessaloniki in Greece. Right before the game started. You can see the players on the field standing in lines after entering. The referee nay interrupt the game if they can't see enough on the field but otherwise they can play. Firemen may put out flares thrown too close to the field.
The flares en fireworks are mostly used at the start of the game when their squad enters the field as an extra morale boost. Almost every middlesized city (or bigger) has their own teams, traditions and chants. As some other people in the comments pointed it out, most of the fans are there to really support the team instead of just watching a game.
First of all, no. There’s never enough security to keep fans off the pitch if fans decide to storm the pitch. All changing, flares and fireworks is there as a display of support for your own players, but also a deterrent against being shit, because here we are 10-60000 men strong chanting and literally making the stadium shake. And yes...we make the stadiums shake, modern safety construction made of reinforced concrete. Our clubs aren’t chosen as fans, it’s what team we have locally or what our fathers beats into us. And you support a club for life, there’s no changing about, and everyone will remember who you support for the rest of your life. Also, yes we used to have a lot of violence concentrated around supporter clubs. But the government’s decided that was too scary and started banning ultras, so now we support our club and involve ourselves in politics.
Red Star Belgrade, actually know a guy living here in New York who's from Serbia and is of their ultras group, spoke about battles they would have, and even almost losing his life fighting against Partizan ultras (they play in the same city as Red Star). Met him at NYCFC games, and as you can imagine, watching football in the U.S. is nothing compared to a lot of the world, so he enjoys being able to just drink with his friends, watch the team, chant all game and not really have to worry really about getting into battles with other fans.
Many ppl died in those fights, but Partizan fans a bit more.Here it went on personal level, it's not just football 😂.Problem is bcs nobody ever went to jail for those murders.Last example Sasa Pantic (Killed in Republic of Srpska) killed by Red Star fans, by metal sticks and those guys have some important parents, nobody ever was imprisoned.Demir Jukic(my friend) killed in 2017 being only 18y old.Nobody ever even went in police or investigation anything.And when Aca Radovic(Red Star fan) was killed on Partizan stadium with signal rocket
Just few fans went to jail bcs of starting clashes on stadium or something like that on few months.Problem is bcs President is openly Red Star fan and they work on many building projects etc.And last year in fights in few months more then 30 Partizan fans arrested, Red Star 0.But i will stop here.Take care friend 😁
Perfect example how NOT to watch a game. Sport is not about having fun with your friends, drinking beer, getting fat. Real sport fan comes to the arena to give his 100% for the teams 0.001% better performance. In NBA you have many extremely stupid things, like Dance cam, kiss cam, really shame. When we lose an important game I can't normally sleep couple of nights.
World of football fans is like europe in medievil times!!! Clubs are like kingdoms or city/ castle... the game is like an opportunity to go to war with another kingdom or city...for 1 day u are a knight...or spartan..or whatever from ancient times
Awesome explanation,I always taught so,My exboyfriend was for this one day like a warrior or knight,In Serbia most of them absolutely adore their sports,(like me loving my shoes 👠)and the most part of them make no problem or are aggressive,it looks pretty scary for you folks?!
if you're wondering why the video was blurred at 5:51, it was because the lazio fans (known for their far right political views), The Irriducibili, was doing Nazi's salutes.
@@dunsonhouse should maybe be mentioned that certain clubs and its fans appease to certain political ideologies. The fans in the clip who showed the Nazi salutes from Lazio Rome for example are pretty widely known to be fascists and the club is at least very, very right wing. Then you have other clubs who's fans are all very left-wing, almost anarchist like for example St. Pauli from Hamburg. Especially in bigger cities with several rivalling clubs they differentiate each other through political ideologies. One famous example is also the so-called "Old Firm" rivarly between Celtic Glasgow vs Glasgow Rangers which is essentially part of Scottish history and culture. Even though they are from the same City, Celtic is supported by left-leaning Catholics who believe Scotland should be independend from the UK. Whereas Rangers are conservative Protestants, who are loyal to the English Crown.
As a European I have experienced these “fires” when i’ve been to games. They’re actually flares/smoke flares. In some stadiums they are illegal and they light them before the game and sometimes throw them onto the field.
With the Ajax Amsterdam chants, the first us basically just “For Ajax Amsterdam” and the second was “90 minutes long, for our club from Amsterdam, madness in the stands, nobody can stop us”
Ajax are considered average supporters. Juve tifosi always dominate their stadium. In holland only feyenoord has ultras wich are respected trough whole europe
In Europe almost every club has “ultras”. It’s a special part of the clubs fans which are like hardcore fans. Most of the times it’s them burning down the pyros and the most stadiums have one block just for the ultras. These fans are not loved by anyone because not everyone like these extrem things like pyros (which is illegal btw) and they have problems with the police sometimes because they fight with the police or opponent fans. But imo these are the best fans because they make noise in the stadium and the they really love the club and give it soul not like for example people who come to the stadium just because it’s a big game eventhough they aren’t real fans of any of the clubs
In Germany Ultras are also a new kind of culture for young people like Punks in the 80s for example. Their mission is to support their club with all passion they get. With owm mechandise without being commercial. They dont wear official licensed products of their Club. Every earned money is for the support and for choreos. And, what of „normal“ fans doenst know: they do also a lot of social work in their hometowns. Youthprogramms, charity for Child hospitals etc… Its a special way of life that older generations dont understand.
It’s amazing to me that some football chants have transcended language and gone global, eg that _Ole Ole Ole Ole_ one. We sing that too! One sport, One Passion, One Love. From 🇬🇧 to the 🌎
03:00 they are all standing with their backs to the field just to show te ennemy they are confident in their team winning easy, so they don’t watch and sing for like 5 minutes, it’s maaddd hahaha
Usualy its just an choreo. Never heard anywone who treat it like being cofident of win. Esepcialy as fan u are not scoring so it doest affect on result that u are watching or dont :p
And you’re Rio Ferdinand or what? I can’t understand 3 words of your response mate, yes they turn around because they know their team is winning easily, sometimes it’s also a choreo but that’s not the point 😶 and idk what kind of fabric you wanna talk about… do you mean like the big ‘tifo’s’ who cover a big part of the audience before the game starts?
The fires you see are Bengal fires and it's before, during or after the game. Mostly before to bring the atmosphere to the players to show the support. Football (not soccer ;) ) is a big party in Europe where we are all a unity for the same team. Long history, football has been for the working class to enjoy after a long hard week of work.
3:00 Thats my club right there. This chant is called: “Negentig minuten lang / 90 minutes long.” ( The time of a avarage football game ) A few minutes before the end of the game, the F-side turn their backs to the field and sing this song.
Don't know if they say it everywhere, but here in Scotland we have a cliché that the fans are "the twelfth man". A good support can spur a team on to success. It can energise them.
Yeah, everyone bigs up us england lads but in reality we’re just the rude but funny uncle at the family gathering, over in the more Eastern European country’s is where you find the ones that’ll give their heart and soul for their club, for some football is their life and when you have no other way to vent, a football match at a big game or even a league game is where you can safely do (within reason kinda) whatever you want. Also, the ‘fires’ are just flares, sometimes a crackhead might take it too far but unless you’re waving it right in someone’s face then they’re pretty harmless Great vid btw man, can’t wait to binge watch more lol
Man when your team scores a goal and you are in the middle of that you can hear the ground shaking. The first time I experienced it I was 5 and I will never forget that feeling.
Just imagine the culture ur Dad teached you,the love to ur City ,ur gang shit without Shootings and ur best friends and familie all of that come togehter with football . Then u might imagine what football means for real and that you can never compare it with other Sports in the US
The thing about the "fires" is just for catching your eye, they use flares of course in the crowd, we cannot light actual fires so we light flares. The flares are usually connected to the craziest supporters of a club, which are usually called "ultras" but are also called "pyros", and we call flares pyro with the saying "no pyro, no party". That's why the flares.
PAOK is in Greece! Mostly it's before the game when the teams come on the pitch to begin the game! It's an amazing feeling! I love it so much. But when the game is busy they will sing and chant and jump but not as crazy before the match.. but the crowd can really be a factor in the game! The 12man ❤️because there are 11players per team on the pitch and we are the 12th man of the team we support.. singing them forwards to win the game 😁
@@dunsonhouse brother we are living for this all our lifes we work jobs for funny money and wr are spending it on for the better of the group when the weekend comes u know what is your must to do thing, there is no exceptions even if u have baby that day u are fucking goin to stadium not to hospital! (balkan)
In the US a dad takes his son to the games for a father son bonding time in Europe a father takes his son to the game and the son comes back home a MAN
8:09 This was before the game, i was lucky to be inside there. The atmosphere was amazing, it was very very loud. It looked liked hell like the song we use before everygame (Hell's Bells) it's like telling them that this is their funeral. Also the game started 1 hour later due to the fires😂😂
2:59 it's called let's do the Poznan. After Lech Poznan (Polish team) won something big ten years ago and it went viral. I think the purpose is that we don't need to watch the game, we've already won
Some quick info. These clubs have a large group of what are called Ultras. Think of them as superfans. They work all week on presentations and chants. They arrive hours before the match and have a designated area. They get the team and the rest of the crowd going. A lot of the chants are used all the time so the rest of the crowd gets into it too.
13:35 the game that s about to start hosted at Bucharest has at least 3000 police and special forces at the arena for about 27k people present, but keep in mind this game has a very low probability of altercations or violence. France vs Switzerland
Soccer, as in Brazil too, is a form of expression, protests and ideologies, political or not, of a group fighting for ideas. A phrase said in Brazil is " It's not just football"
Paok is from Greece. The pictures are before the game but fires can get let up during and after the game aswell... I Don t think that in the US something like hooligans or ultras or supporters exist: For this guys, the team is their life, and they ve got also power in the sayings on the fade of their team to degree
this shit deadass makes me emotional. i dont even like sports. but shit like this makes me want to be apart of this. True passion for their team and country. its extremely beautiful. i dont know where the hell america went wrong but this is how you do sports.
That is fire. Trust me 😂 My hand got burned once by a stray flare and probably should have gone to the ER, but could get myself to leave the game. I’ve lost scarves in the fire, clothes got burn holes all over. Memories. LOVE IT!
In the US you watch the show. In Europe you ARE the show
That sounded so Russian 🤣🤣🤣
In usa you just eat
@@truehunger108 man we dont have those prejudices for russian brothers, thats an american thing
@@matejbatinic3104 It's a joke, there's a running joke on the internet about slavs, about how people do things in the US, but in Russia it's the opposite.
@@truehunger108 and how they do those things? Can you explain please? I dont get racist jokes.
For Europeans, supporting their club is a matter of pride. And we take great pride in doing it.
For football fans around the world*
@@PmOmena yeah but europe and est europe take it on a whole new level lol
@@sebastiansimota1562 I've seen some Argentinians and Brazilians go to extreme on a regular basis, my team literally put 30k+ people on Japan in 2012 club world cup, travels here are not as kind as Europe
@@PmOmena come to legia or cracovia, then you will get your pack, no matter how many people you have 😉 American football is a joke against Europe😂
@@SanjaDE99 I'm from Brazil
Not just every country, every club has it's own chants and every city and town has several clubs
No, every club has his own anthem and several chants
Except France. Because of Vichy regime, there are only 1 pro team per city/region in most areas.
@@ryubix5724 not true though
@@azothe1996 actually, it is true. Many clubs were forced to fusion during the 40s to avoid to disappear because of some weird laws they put in place.
@@ryubix5724 i dont doubt that but now we are 70 years later they are lots of new and not so new club everywhere some pro some semi pro amateur everywhere
In the US, football games are a business.
In the UK, football games are a way of life.
In Europe, football games are a religious war.
UK is Europe but I get what you're saying and your right too....
@@zodinpuiapunte8430 english premier league is ruined by oil money. The championship downwards and some of the smaller prem clubs like leeds have passionate fans. The only big club in england with a decent atmosphere is liverpool. I think we forget that the old firm derby can have an incredible atmosphere too
Especially Balkans
@@samuelpinder1215 hahahahaa
I am a Brit and I thought our chants were crazy. Then I heard what you lot were doing. Let me innnnn!
There's different kinds of chants. Usually there's one that's some kind of love song to the club.
AS Roma has two very beautiful love songs written by famous songwriter Antonello Venditti dedicated to the team he loves. Every fan can sing them.
Then there are shorter ones that are also meant to show support to your team and basically most of the times it's just the name of the team and something like "let's go".
And then there are chants specifically to mock the other team. Of those there exist two categories: the first is just general and can be used on any opponent team, the second is specifically made for a certain opponent team (usually it's for teams that have a big rivalry, like when they are from the same city). Those can be very vulgar,at least as far as I know in Greece and Italy.
For a country full of guns, Americans always see so surprised/confused by flares & smoke bombs 😂😂
Lmao
*Gets scared of smoke* *sees schoolshooting happening, continues to eat his extremely fat deepfried lunch*
As a romanian this had me on the floor laughing
@@andromeda3056 lol
That struck me when he watched the Red Star fans and there was a loud bang at 11:08, he immediately says "Was that a gunshot?!" It's just unimagineable for a European that there should be a gunshot in a public place.
There's no such thing as football fans in Europe. They're supporters. They don't go to their stadiums to watch a game, they go to support their team.
Respect ✊🏽
@@dunsonhouse That's also why the whole home advantage thing is actually true. Visiting teams aren't facing the home team. They're facing the home team and their supporters. I'm pretty sure any american professional basketball player who's been active in Europe will tell you the same thing.
They put the Fanatical in Fan
@@boxonothing4087 in the 95’ Rugby World Cup final. A plane flew low over the stadium with the words “Go Bokke” emblazoned under the wings. The South Africans also with the crowd at their backs stared down the All Black Haka. The stadium they played it at is quite on top of the players so when you are on the pitch it feels like the crowd is on your back. And too this day I believe the Springboks are still undefeated at that stadium.
Seeing the game while supporting your club
in the US people see sports as "just a game"
in europe its life or death sometimes.
Since Europe is in peace, you guys have to spend that energy in something
@@algumacoisa1232 wtf is that suppose to mean? Is the US at war?💀😭
@@mroldschoolmaker yes, with me, and I'm winning
@@algumacoisa1232 👨🏼💻
In South America it's life or death ALL THE times.
You right, bro. If you fuck with just one of them , shit hits the fan. It goes beyond religion
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Funfact Dynamo Dresden is playing in the 3rd division in these recordings
Funfact: Scheiß Dynamo!
@@lxca6675 Funfact: Scheiß Pauli
A lot of Ultras members spend the whole game singing and chanting, with limited attention to what happens on the pitch, then to go home and watch the rerun of the game! Not just the highlights, but the full game!
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he didn't understand a thing :)))
@@Octav793 I definitely understand what my man was talking about
I feel like you r talking about me 😅 ici c'est Paris 🔴🔵
Honestly u can’t even say that youre a real fan when u support PSG
When everyone is jumping as you saw, if you stand still you would actually feel the stadium shaking, it’s like an earthquake
That’s crazy appreciate the comment
@@dunsonhouse the heaviest seismic reaction to the crowd jumping in a game was registered in La Bombonera, an Argentinian Stadium.
6,4 in Richter scale
*Earth quake
@@dunsonhouse 9:40 this is Austria not Australia
The pyro is for creating an heavy Athmosphere along with the chants, choreo, flags and smoke its just intimidating for the opponent and therefor helping your own team
Ok I understand that
@@dunsonhouse should watch some Feyenoord Rotterdam video's, for example when they visited Rome a few years ago
@@perryheijser4019 and trashed some of our sacred historic monuments.. we got back at them for that. #CurvaSudMilan.
Yes! This is why winning in the opponents stadium is usually considered to be more difficult than in your home stadium
Yes and acted like bitches ruining our monuments
That's passion. That's our lifes. That's football. ❤️
I respect it my guy thanks fir the comment
Americans wonder: why chants? why flares? why the open aggression? the answer: European football is the (more) peaceful continuation of war. In Switzerland the sports-department is even called: Department for Sports and Military. That sums it up, for you guys 😂 it also explains the 1944 Flag you see in the Vid at 6:26.
It’s so funny when the Americans think we are ‘setting the stadiums on fire’ 🤣
Lol I know they are flares my guy now that somebody told me ✊🏽
lesssstahhhh
If you've ever seen red star Belgrade v partisan they do genuinely set the stadium on fire sometimes! Other than those nutters, yeah it's just flares
flares yeah
And we can't even get a free water bottle in provided by the ground 😭
at 6:50 it´s not about scaring the other team but to demonstrate to "UEFA" who holds the tournament and european cup. They are clearly corrupt and doesn´t treat the smaller clubs equal to the bigger and more famous ones..
I am finding out more information about that and learning how things is I appreciate your comment ✊🏽
@@dunsonhouse It's from Warsaw, i was at this game. It's all about how precise are UEFA in penalising small clubs like Legia when every time that thing happens on "Zyleta" club gets tons of euro penalty for pirotechnics
@@krzysztofandrukowicz2758 ok now I am starting to understand thanks for the i fo my guy ✊🏽
This is what makes me proud to be a football fan...the pure passion,the unity. ⚽❤️
Every team as a song book, and its always changing. There are old favorites and new ones that capture a particular season or player. When a new song really takes off it has a lot of energy.
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When you see thousands of your brothers jumping and singing the same chorus on the stand, when you feel the passion, madness, pride to your city/club/country that’s the best feeling in the world...
Our style - ultras life 🔥
You wouldn't have to be scared to attend - everyone supporting the same team are allies, consider them a friend you haven't met yet. No one would harm you, you are safe.
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That’s exactly how it was, I remember the Play-Off final in 2017 when town got promoted to the prem, we ended up celebrating with about 100/200 people after the game and it was the best week of my life
@@pebbleyt1357 ✊🏽
@@dunsonhouse In addition to that the fans of the aways team are completly seperated by fences and are seated in a special area of the stadium. Depending on what team the home club is facing the fans are even seperated all the way from the main railroad station to the stadium. They recieve special trains and are escorted by police forces.
Except for joining SS Lazio ultras, don't think they'd be happy to see a black guy joining them
'And the 35.000 € fine goes to...'
This way to good...actually head to laugh in this
🇩🇪🤝🏼🇵🇱
Being in those crowds is exhilarating. Even if you don't know the songs or chants, they just lift you off and you ride along like a born fan right of the bat.
The fans are also extremely welcoming-- as long as you cheer for *their* club, that is.
In Belgrad, at Red Star Belgrad's home ground, even the architecture of the stadium can scare the other team. The players tunnel looks like an old station tunnel with grafity. You can hear the noise of jumping and chanting fans and walk out right infront of the main stand of the home suporters. There is a POV of walking this on youtube.
being in those crowds week after week you really get into the culture of the club, you become a family with all the fans, you make friends with regulars. Football is more than just a game to many of these people here, it's a way of life. Standing in one of those stadiums really reminds you about how much power humanity has with a little unity.
Sport in Europe is pride, its joy, its sadness, its LIFE !!!!
I respect that my guy
@@dunsonhouse I live I Spain and it’s incredible, sometimes when Barcelona is going to play against Madrid is crazy but funny I love football but respect to basketball 🤝
There are not only Ultras in Europe, but also in Latin America (mainly in Brazil and Argentina, Argentine fans are crazy, you have to see them) and in North Africa (those are crazy too) .
Greetings from Brazil !
Check out Top15 Balkan Ultras Bro . You cannot compare them with some fans in Brazil.
@@lotakom6992 At no time did I say that the South American ultras are crazier than the Balkans, including many of the ultras in this video are from the Balkans, I just said that there are Ultras outside Europe!
Boca junior ultras are wack yeah..but the balkan clubs are just on a level on their own
Latin America is not just Brazil and Argentina. You'll see Crazy Ultras in Uruguay, Colombia, Chile, Perú, Costa Rica, Honduras and El Salvador
Latin America for sure, Japan has good stuff too (with the flags and all) and north africa mainly Tunisia (CA and EST teams)
SK Rapid Wein is an Austrian club. Austria is a country.
Austria Europe def not Australia
@@Rathardican it's still a country
Bruh video is called europe ultra is that australia RIP imagine a continent inside of an continent
@@samuelbockle9440 Austria, not Australia.
@@jupitersnoot4915 bruh i know my comment is a quote from the video
5:35 song name is Avanti Ragazzi di Buda it is an old Italian song write for Hungarian Uprising against the Communism at 1956.
eastern europe supporters are the craziest (greece, turkey, ex-jugoslavia countries)!
every time our teams are going to play on their pitch we're like "oh shit this is gonna be a war!" 😂
Many different chants and many different types of choreo in different parts of Europe. In UK you can't light signal lights or fires but in Bulgaria you can tear down the stadium if you want. You have up to 2000 police at some games. The CSKA Sofia chant for example goes like this: "Since childhood you lit fire in my heart! I will always be true to CSKA!"
Salut from CSKA MOSCOW!!!✊
I went to the derby in Sofia twice (standing for CSKA) as I lived there for 2 years, I was able to hold a flare in the "presidential" stand, the other time I was amongst the ultras and at the start of the second half it was impossible to see the game for 5 minutes, loved it. The corteos pre game were amazing too.
А да не говорим колко полиция има на дербито между локо и ботев то няма полицай в Пловдив който да не е там
You can have flares in the UK at some of the smaller stadiums. Rotherham fans have flares so do bristol city and Peterborough
Dude at Lazio they threw a moped 🏍 on the field . That sh*t was intense.
I'm from Germany and a huge football fan (or like americans say a soccer fan). And for me it is like a must, that the fans sing and so on in order to push and motivate the team on the pitch. The bengalflares are to visualize emotions and to make a choreo more visual and to make the picture of it more impressive, its some kind of a contest between the ultragroups.
The number of Policemen depends on the game itself, how much conflict-potential there is between the fans. When there is a derby, a match between clubs where the fans are very agressive against the others, there is much more police, the police in Germany call it "Hochrisikospiel", in english like "Highriskmatch" (just word4word translation sorry :D)
For myself, i'm almost 27 and i can't just watch the game when my team is on the pitch. I have to sing, jump and applaus. I love it this way and can't imagine it right now without it and theres nothing else in the world i'm more exited for to finally return to a full stadium and support the team like before covid.
Appreciate that info my guy ✊🏽
@@dunsonhouse yeah. they send riot police like in battalion sizes to keep the teams apart. the visiting team's fans have to stay at the statium until the home team's are gone and they use different entrances and stuff
du sprichst mir aus der Seele🤝
Welche Mannschaft?
@@Lazzo34 Eintracht Braunschweig
when they light up the fire signal you can smell the burning gunpowder from a mile away so imagine how it smells inside the stadium
Lol that’s crazy appreciate the comment my guy
best smell in the world imo, especially when you wake up the next morning and your clothes still smell
The engineering of German stadiums are insane! The amount of stress they can take is incredible! Now add cheap tickets, cheap beer and that by law the fans have to be the majority shareholder in the clubs
These aren’t National chants. These are chants sung by the supporters of individual teams in every different countries domestic leagues. Most nations in Europe have top divisions with 20 teams and second, third, etc division teams all with their own unique chants. What they all say, I’m not sure.
National teams have their own chants that they sing at National team games for their respective countries.
Here in America, sports are for spectators, in Europe teams are independent religions haha their clubs have been around in some cases since the 1800’s so they’ve had more time to develop through different economic situations while in America all of our sports are relatively new and have all been put on through capitalism which has its own priorities which has shaped the game day experience for comfort rather than ferocity.
We europeans love pyrotechnics in stadiums. That's our mentality (ok something around 50% of europeans lets be honest-not every single person like it) but It's always adds colours to the stands. Also there is a big difference beetween stadium and arena. Stadiums woke in us emotions which i can't descripe. It's just literally another world
1) each game has the number of police officers according to their importance and who the two teams are on the field
2) each team has its own songs and they range from helping the team to mock rivals and the football federation itself
3) flares are theoretically prohibited But the clubs and the police turn blind eye
4) fire flares and etc. happen just before the start of the game and sometimes the referee has to wait for a few minutes until the match can start
5) each game presents its history, scenes like you saw in the video are not unique, they are commonplace, but they are also special, a national championship season has an average of 38 games, you won't see the crowd doing that in 10 of those games! usually this kind of party precedes a very important game.
People use flares before the game under the game and after the game
@@mathijs0383 ok but for him to understand it is easy this way… you cant expl every thing!
@@RAF4EL97 oké I just explained it in 1 sentence
@@mathijs0383 you and I know that it's not every game that flags will be used during games... when it happens during it's usually the crowd protesting
@@RAF4EL97 lol flags are most of the times used fore there team ore ultra group and yea sometimes fore protest
The flares all around was PAOK Tessaloniki in Greece.
Right before the game started. You can see the players on the field standing in lines after entering.
The referee nay interrupt the game if they can't see enough on the field but otherwise they can play. Firemen may put out flares thrown too close to the field.
When it’s El Clásico day it’s incredible, believe me I live in Spain. I love football, all Europe love football ⚽️
The flares en fireworks are mostly used at the start of the game when their squad enters the field as an extra morale boost. Almost every middlesized city (or bigger) has their own teams, traditions and chants. As some other people in the comments pointed it out, most of the fans are there to really support the team instead of just watching a game.
First of all, no. There’s never enough security to keep fans off the pitch if fans decide to storm the pitch. All changing, flares and fireworks is there as a display of support for your own players, but also a deterrent against being shit, because here we are 10-60000 men strong chanting and literally making the stadium shake. And yes...we make the stadiums shake, modern safety construction made of reinforced concrete.
Our clubs aren’t chosen as fans, it’s what team we have locally or what our fathers beats into us. And you support a club for life, there’s no changing about, and everyone will remember who you support for the rest of your life.
Also, yes we used to have a lot of violence concentrated around supporter clubs. But the government’s decided that was too scary and started banning ultras, so now we support our club and involve ourselves in politics.
The dad part isn't accurate, cuz my dad is a Madridsta, and I'm a blue.
@@truehunger108 u have failed him
Red Star Belgrade, actually know a guy living here in New York who's from Serbia and is of their ultras group, spoke about battles they would have, and even almost losing his life fighting against Partizan ultras (they play in the same city as Red Star). Met him at NYCFC games, and as you can imagine, watching football in the U.S. is nothing compared to a lot of the world, so he enjoys being able to just drink with his friends, watch the team, chant all game and not really have to worry really about getting into battles with other fans.
😂😂 facts✊🏽
Many ppl died in those fights, but Partizan fans a bit more.Here it went on personal level, it's not just football 😂.Problem is bcs nobody ever went to jail for those murders.Last example Sasa Pantic (Killed in Republic of Srpska) killed by Red Star fans, by metal sticks and those guys have some important parents, nobody ever was imprisoned.Demir Jukic(my friend) killed in 2017 being only 18y old.Nobody ever even went in police or investigation anything.And when Aca Radovic(Red Star fan) was killed on Partizan stadium with signal rocket
Just few fans went to jail bcs of starting clashes on stadium or something like that on few months.Problem is bcs President is openly Red Star fan and they work on many building projects etc.And last year in fights in few months more then 30 Partizan fans arrested, Red Star 0.But i will stop here.Take care friend 😁
@@RobertELee1418 that’s crazy appreciate the info my guy
Perfect example how NOT to watch a game. Sport is not about having fun with your friends, drinking beer, getting fat. Real sport fan comes to the arena to give his 100% for the teams 0.001% better performance. In NBA you have many extremely stupid things, like Dance cam, kiss cam, really shame. When we lose an important game I can't normally sleep couple of nights.
If you want to get a better understanding of what it means to us you should definitely react to "Ultras our way of Life". Good reaction man
I love how he said that here in the us we have stuff like we will rock you, the song by The Queen, British rock band
Paok and panathinaikos are greek football clubs, the fans in greece giving just their harts to the club they support.
World of football fans is like europe in medievil times!!! Clubs are like kingdoms or city/ castle... the game is like an opportunity to go to war with another kingdom or city...for 1 day u are a knight...or spartan..or whatever from ancient times
Awesome explanation,I always taught so,My exboyfriend was for this one day like a warrior or knight,In Serbia most of them absolutely adore their sports,(like me loving my shoes 👠)and the most part of them make no problem or are aggressive,it looks pretty scary for you folks?!
Bro football is life and death for everyone outside of the States mate my wife is a half yank and she is so now into football she hates that nfl thing
😂😂😂✊🏽 appreciate the comment my guy
16:22 Rapid Wien; "australia I think" 🤣🤣🤣
It's a way of life for us in Europe, never mistake that.
8:16 it's a greek derby paok vs olympiakos and all this happened before the match start
Ajax Amsterdam chant translated:
90 minutes long for our club from Amsterdam!
It's a crazy place on the stands!
Nobody can stop us now!
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You forget to say , they always run away away🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️🏃♂️
@@marcellos9208 they always run away 🤣
if you're wondering why the video was blurred at 5:51, it was because the lazio fans (known for their far right political views), The Irriducibili, was doing Nazi's salutes.
Wow that’s insane appreciate the comment my guy✊🏽
@@dunsonhouse should maybe be mentioned that certain clubs and its fans appease to certain political ideologies. The fans in the clip who showed the Nazi salutes from Lazio Rome for example are pretty widely known to be fascists and the club is at least very, very right wing. Then you have other clubs who's fans are all very left-wing, almost anarchist like for example St. Pauli from Hamburg.
Especially in bigger cities with several rivalling clubs they differentiate each other through political ideologies. One famous example is also the so-called "Old Firm" rivarly between Celtic Glasgow vs Glasgow Rangers which is essentially part of Scottish history and culture. Even though they are from the same City, Celtic is supported by left-leaning Catholics who believe Scotland should be independend from the UK. Whereas Rangers are conservative Protestants, who are loyal to the English Crown.
Ye lazio is dodgy also idk if its Bulgarian clubs aswell
As a European I have experienced these “fires” when i’ve been to games. They’re actually flares/smoke flares. In some stadiums they are illegal and they light them before the game and sometimes throw them onto the field.
The fire is like a signal to say “we are here” “we have no fear of anything, will destroy your team”
PAOK FANS FROM GREECE ARE SOMETHING ELSE🖤🤍🇬🇷
Welcome to Europe brother,we are the people 🇮🇪✊ best of luck to your channel bro,hope it takes off
My friend from personal experience the best feeling is to be part of that torch party especially PAOK's one
Legioniści co za Fani
Pamiętamy 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱❤❤❤❤❤
We remember
For that Paok match it was delayed a whole hour, also the fans had put sardines under Olympiakos bench.
With the Ajax Amsterdam chants, the first us basically just “For Ajax Amsterdam” and the second was “90 minutes long, for our club from Amsterdam, madness in the stands, nobody can stop us”
i saw that playing against PAOK imroves your chants..
Ajax are considered average supporters. Juve tifosi always dominate their stadium. In holland only feyenoord has ultras wich are respected trough whole europe
Lekker man
@@anomalie994 you don't mention FC Den Haag then?
@@anomalie994 Ah, still pissed we kicked you out of the Champions League last time we met?
"They do fire after the game,before the game?".Answer is "yes".Before the game,during the game,after the game
In Europe almost every club has “ultras”. It’s a special part of the clubs fans which are like hardcore fans. Most of the times it’s them burning down the pyros and the most stadiums have one block just for the ultras. These fans are not loved by anyone because not everyone like these extrem things like pyros (which is illegal btw) and they have problems with the police sometimes because they fight with the police or opponent fans. But imo these are the best fans because they make noise in the stadium and the they really love the club and give it soul not like for example people who come to the stadium just because it’s a big game eventhough they aren’t real fans of any of the clubs
Appreciate that info ✊🏽 thanks for commenting
In Germany Ultras are also a new kind of culture for young people like Punks in the 80s for example. Their mission is to support their club with all passion they get. With owm mechandise without being commercial. They dont wear official licensed products of their Club. Every earned money is for the support and for choreos. And, what of „normal“ fans doenst know: they do also a lot of social work in their hometowns. Youthprogramms, charity for Child hospitals etc…
Its a special way of life that older generations dont understand.
It’s amazing to me that some football chants have transcended language and gone global, eg that _Ole Ole Ole Ole_ one. We sing that too!
One sport, One Passion, One Love. From 🇬🇧 to the 🌎
When they fire in the game it shows that the derby is on fire by the fans 💙
And they do fire before the game!
8:30 that's before the game, you can see the players shaking hands on the pitch
14:33 those are tha "capo"s that coordinate the whole crowd and starting the chants
03:00 they are all standing with their backs to the field just to show te ennemy they are confident in their team winning easy, so they don’t watch and sing for like 5 minutes, it’s maaddd hahaha
Usualy its just an choreo. Never heard anywone who treat it like being cofident of win. Esepcialy as fan u are not scoring so it doest affect on result that u are watching or dont :p
Also if fans are presenting "poster" (dont know word for these big fabric) is that meaning they are awere beacuse they are" hiding" under fabric? xd
And you’re Rio Ferdinand or what? I can’t understand 3 words of your response mate, yes they turn around because they know their team is winning easily, sometimes it’s also a choreo but that’s not the point 😶 and idk what kind of fabric you wanna talk about… do you mean like the big ‘tifo’s’ who cover a big part of the audience before the game starts?
The fires you see are Bengal fires and it's before, during or after the game. Mostly before to bring the atmosphere to the players to show the support. Football (not soccer ;) ) is a big party in Europe where we are all a unity for the same team. Long history, football has been for the working class to enjoy after a long hard week of work.
The fires are most of the time before the game. They usually wait till all the smoke is gone before starting the game. Btw PAOK is in greece
Football is the best sport in the world for a reason 💙💙
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3:00 Thats my club right there. This chant is called: “Negentig minuten lang / 90 minutes long.” ( The time of a avarage football game ) A few minutes before the end of the game, the F-side turn their backs to the field and sing this song.
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Wij zijn Ajax wij zijn de beste❌❌❌
@@thatg7y923 En zo is het ❌❌❌
5:35,,Avanti ragazzi di Buda" 🇭🇺🇮🇹
the chant you asked for translated.
90 minutes long
for our club from amsterdam
craziness on the stands
nobody can stop us
Don't know if they say it everywhere, but here in Scotland we have a cliché that the fans are "the twelfth man". A good support can spur a team on to success. It can energise them.
Yeah, everyone bigs up us england lads but in reality we’re just the rude but funny uncle at the family gathering, over in the more Eastern European country’s is where you find the ones that’ll give their heart and soul for their club, for some football is their life and when you have no other way to vent, a football match at a big game or even a league game is where you can safely do (within reason kinda) whatever you want.
Also, the ‘fires’ are just flares, sometimes a crackhead might take it too far but unless you’re waving it right in someone’s face then they’re pretty harmless
Great vid btw man, can’t wait to binge watch more lol
I respect my guy appreciate you sharing
Nah England are great fans but recently we have been getting to many glory hunters we used to be ,ike that and small clubs still are
For us football is our lives, growing up especially where in from it practically saved our lives, that’s why we’re so passionate about it
I respect that ✊🏽
Great Reaction, My Friend..
Rapid Wien is an Austrian team, which is the Country next to Germany, not an Australian team .
Good Luck.
Man when your team scores a goal and you are in the middle of that you can hear the ground shaking. The first time I experienced it I was 5 and I will never forget that feeling.
Just imagine the culture ur Dad teached you,the love to ur City ,ur gang shit without Shootings and ur best friends and familie all of that come togehter with football .
Then u might imagine what football means for real and that you can never compare it with other Sports in the US
Goosebumps and tears of joy in my eyes the whole video. Fucking hell
The thing about the "fires" is just for catching your eye, they use flares of course in the crowd, we cannot light actual fires so we light flares. The flares are usually connected to the craziest supporters of a club, which are usually called "ultras" but are also called "pyros", and we call flares pyro with the saying "no pyro, no party". That's why the flares.
Appreciate the comment ✊🏽
PAOK is in Greece! Mostly it's before the game when the teams come on the pitch to begin the game! It's an amazing feeling! I love it so much. But when the game is busy they will sing and chant and jump but not as crazy before the match.. but the crowd can really be a factor in the game! The 12man ❤️because there are 11players per team on the pitch and we are the 12th man of the team we support.. singing them forwards to win the game 😁
✊🏽 I love how y’all got so much love for your teams man
@@dunsonhouse brother we are living for this all our lifes we work jobs for funny money and wr are spending it on for the better of the group when the weekend comes u know what is your must to do thing, there is no exceptions even if u have baby that day u are fucking goin to stadium not to hospital! (balkan)
@@foreverfreedom7411 wow.. appreciate you sharing this my guy
Paok is greek team and yes, they play after that Pyro show
In the US a dad takes his son to the games for a father son bonding time in Europe a father takes his son to the game and the son comes back home a MAN
8:09 This was before the game, i was lucky to be inside there. The atmosphere was amazing, it was very very loud. It looked liked hell like the song we use before everygame (Hell's Bells) it's like telling them that this is their funeral. Also the game started 1 hour later due to the fires😂😂
2:59 it's called let's do the Poznan. After Lech Poznan (Polish team) won something big ten years ago and it went viral. I think the purpose is that we don't need to watch the game, we've already won
No its from AJAX AMSTERDAM
@@rickvandekraats7963 no, Ajx took it from Lech Poznan
@@rickvandekraats7963 its from Poznań
The Paok situation it’s unreal
Some quick info. These clubs have a large group of what are called Ultras. Think of them as superfans. They work all week on presentations and chants. They arrive hours before the match and have a designated area. They get the team and the rest of the crowd going. A lot of the chants are used all the time so the rest of the crowd gets into it too.
That’s real passion appreciate the comment my guy
Next time see south american fans. Hi from Brazil 🇧🇷
Ajax amsterdam, every 90th minute the crowd turn their backs towards the field and the full ztadium sings this somg
13:35 the game that s about to start hosted at Bucharest has at least 3000 police and special forces at the arena for about 27k people present, but keep in mind this game has a very low probability of altercations or violence. France vs Switzerland
Ok just wondering thanks for the comment ✊🏽
I'm from Poland and I'm Legia Warsaw fan and I'm not suprised that Legia's flag is on the title screen.
yeah...its a difference there between actually beeing a supporting fan, and just screaming "defense" and cxount the clock down all the game
Soccer, as in Brazil too, is a form of expression, protests and ideologies, political or not, of a group fighting for ideas. A phrase said in Brazil is
" It's not just football"
Bem expresado
The chants and flares are a sign that we're ready for war.
Warsaw 🥺☹️
Paok is from Greece. The pictures are before the game but fires can get let up during and after the game aswell... I Don t think that in the US something like hooligans or ultras or supporters exist: For this guys, the team is their life, and they ve got also power in the sayings on the fade of their team to degree
One of the best things of this beautiful sport… it’s soooo emotional
this shit deadass makes me emotional. i dont even like sports. but shit like this makes me want to be apart of this. True passion for their team and country. its extremely beautiful. i dont know where the hell america went wrong but this is how you do sports.
The "fires" are just glowsticks. What I've understand they are banned in most US states. Which amazes me, since you can get a gun in a corner shop xD
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@@dunsonhouse they’re not glow sticks they’re flares and they’re on fire
@Florian B. I know, should have said "glowsticks". As we call them that xD
That is fire. Trust me 😂 My hand got burned once by a stray flare and probably should have gone to the ER, but could get myself to leave the game. I’ve lost scarves in the fire, clothes got burn holes all over. Memories. LOVE IT!