I know some are technically ultras, but they all behaved very well in these clips. The most brutal ultra clips are like way way more extreme then this. @@DocHempy
No no you right. I’m American and sports here are basically entertainment, that’s why we go over the top with all the shows, cheerleaders, halftime shows, fireworks
Football is deeply rooted within the social fabric of many countries, which is why you often find clubs associated with class struggles, many of the so called working class clubs are still very much proud of that history like Schalke in Germany, who still connect strongly to mining workers culture. Or you have clubs like Liverpool, where the fans celebrated the passing of the famous conservative Thatcher singing "the witch is dead" and stuff. You have Clubs like Celtic, once formed to support the starving poor in Glasgow and many other stories that have little to nothing to do with the sport itself, it just happened to be football that was popular with the people at those times. could have easily been any other team sport but the fact, that all you need is a ball to play it, surely made it easy.
For those wondering here the translations of the German chants: - BVB 09 (4:54): Borussia Dortmund, black and yellow is my club. Whether it’s the fight against relegation or for trophies, Borussia Dortmund, singing for you so you may win, because there is nothing more beautiful in the world for me and my friends. - 1. FC Köln (5:28) Regardless of what may happen the red wall stands behind you, does not move from your side, because it’s only here for you. Oh FC Kölle. A whole life for the club. - Eintracht Frankfurt (6:17, 9:41) Hey Eintracht Frankfurt Shalalalala lalalala (This is sung to the melody of the TV series „Pippi Longstocking“ based on the works of Astrid Lindgren, at the end of the second time „Louder“ is shouted) And as a bonus the one Dutch chant: Ajax Amsterdam (9:57): 90 minutes long, for our club from Amsterdam, madhouse on the tribunes, nobody can stop us.
Very nice of you to bring some of our culture into the world 😊😂 Just one small thing: Before the second "Borussia Dortmund", they also say "Don't want to be a single day without you anymore"
The floor has to built to be able to move, otherwise it would break. Like skyscrapers are built to be able to move in the wind... Ajax is not Greece, that's Netherlands, Ajax Amsterdam.
Football has a deeper history in Europe and the rest of the world. It's special when there's 4,000 singing a song. I've started songs that 30,000 people have ended up singing. It sends a shiver down your spine and you sit there thinking that I started it.
in case you were wondering about the countries: 4:52 dortmund (germany), 5:28 cologne (germany), 6:17 frankfurt (germany), 7:26 northern ireland (ireland), 8:03 milan (italy), 8:06 marseille (france), 8:57 iceland (iceland), 9:18 thessaloniki (greece), 9:40 frankfurt (germany), 9:57 amsterdam (netherlands), 11:06 malmö (sweden), 11:57 paris (france), 12:28 romania (romania)
Catharsis is the word that comes to mind. When you have had a shit week in a not very stimulating job it can feel amazing to be part of a big group bellowing your lungs out until you are hoarse. If you win so much the better as you can completely justify the celebratory pints and consequent hang-over that you were going to get anyway. Good stuff
It’s definitely why those games are so popular. It may be one of the best way to relieve stress and other emotions, party late when your team win and think of nothing else than enjoying the moment. Personally, every time I went to Football or Rugby games, I had no voice left, sometimes even before the games ended, and I couldn’t speak at least the next 2 days. I lived a year in Chicago. Ambience during American Football games or Baseball games was great but definitely not what I would call crazy and quite different than my experience back in Europe.
the text on the banner the romanian fans are holding up at the end of the vid can be translated to: “we were all roman regiments: moldova, wallachia, transylvania”. imagine being a football player and stepping onto the pitch reading that…. it’d probably make you feel like the game was a significant moment in national history, and not just a football game…
@gamer1q658 nope, actually Roman. In the 2 century for over 150 years. Romania gets its name from that. Romanian is a Roman language. Ancestry traces back to the actual Roman legions.
You have to applaud the engineering and the build quality of those stadiums. I don’t know if I would like to be there though seeing the concrete flex as much as it did. 😮
Reminds me of the Terry Pratchett novel “Unseen Academicals” where he describes ‘the crowd’ in football as an almost sentient being; a beast made up of thousands passionate souls. I’m not into sports at all, but even I have a deep respect for that kind of collective passion and the sheer force behind that 😌
well, the National Icelandic football team (that was the giant, the dragon, the bull and the eagle on blue) summoned quite literally half the country to watch them. And of course we are enthusiastic when any Icelander manages (or any team) to gain international recognition. For a country like America it must be much harder to get recognized - hence summon the enthusiasm of the crowd.
Yes, the 'Thunder Clap' as it's now known. An Icelandic team played Motherwell FC (my club as it happens) where they saw the supporters doing this. They then copied, and then they started doing it when the Icelandic national team played. I honestly don't know if 'we' invented it or not, but the Icelandic definitely got it from us.
In the US, sports are family events. You bring your family, get some hot dogs, and enjoy the show. A Disneyland basically. In Europe, you put on your armor, say goodbye to your loved ones, and tell your fellow warriors that if you should fall to tell your sons that you died with honor.
A lot of clubs have their own song. It's worth listening to some like Liverpool and AS Roma, because when the whole stadium sings a beautiful song it's really moving.
@@zuhause61 ist ne nette Hymne, aber halt "we are sailing" umgedichtet. Die beiden Hymnen des AS Rom wurden komplett nur für das Team komponiert und das merkt man den Songs auch an.
In Dortmund we have a song singing about faking our grandmother's death to get a free day from our job so we can attend international matches (which are mostly on tuesdays and wednesdays)
5:30 that’s the fans of Cologne. I live about two miles from the stadium as the crow flies, and I can hear the chanting from my apartment when my window is open on match days. And there are a number of busy streets and a substantial forest between my place and the stadium.
The match in Marseille and the last one in Romania are matches with the national team and the crowds are singing the national anthems (unlike in the US, the national anthems are played only when the international teams play or frequently at the Cup Final, but not for league matches or the regular Cup matches; not even at international club matches such as the Champions League). Not quite the same as the football chants themselves.
IN the US, sports is entertainment like all the major leagues. In Europe, football is a way of life, a religion, a sense of belonging, an identity. The players are the fans' soldiers, they fight on the pitch while the fans provide the atmosphere to scare the away team.
Those call and response type chant like the Seattle sounders do are very common in Germany, but they only work if you got thousands chanting it instead of the 10s or 100s participating here. In Germany fan songs are also often times like love letters to your club, like at 5:27
If you want to delve a little deeper into the atmosphere of a football game, I recommend the video by Connor Sullivan "Mein ERSTER DEUTSCHER FUSSBALL SPIEL! * Verrückt *" This is a video of an American at his first football game and the atmosphere beforehand. Very well done in my opinion.
Considering Europe, you should also watch fans from the eastern part of Germany, especially Dynamo Dresden and Union Berlin (but don't get fooled by RB Leipzig fans as they view their matches more like commercial events, while for the majority of other fan cultures, football is more like a religion). Also Turkish fans in general are spectacular, they are so loud that they regularly outclass fans from other European countries at away matches (with the away side often having just about 10% of the tickets) during European club competitions as well as international matches.
When you're standing in the middle of a crowd like that you jump automatically .... because of how hyped you get yourself from it and also because the floor just bounces back up making you jump even if you aren't trying to do so
I've been to numerous NHL games and International Ice Hockey games, pretty much the same as you've shown in soccer with so much energy in the International games.
ppl forget, america its just show and entertainment, where as europe, sports replaced tradition and tribal wars. europe basically is compeatig tribes just without slaughter nowadays
I played kettle drums for years with the ultras in the 90s, I was so young all the bigger older guys were so amazing I went with the group everywhere up and down the country, by train, ferry, vans and cars, they were like an extension of my family. My father was thrilled, he brought me to the first game when I was 5 and when I was born he made an announced at the stadium loudspeaker, "another supporter was born today" 😂
7:25 I still love northern Irelands "Will Grigg's on fire" song, he had a good season (In englands 3rd or 2nd league) prior to the euros 2016 and some fan posted this song online. They sang it every match in the euros and Will Grigg didn't play a single minute hahaha
Bro yeah you're getting it, is is actually more fun than the game itself. This is why for many people in some specific teams the performance of the fans is more important than the performance of their team and the result of the game itself.
European footie fans win easily over American fans;although with the Europeans,it can get too extreme(ie hooligans ='Ultras' -PSG and Milan,etc);but when its good,its good,ie the Dortmund fans [5:10] who marched through Newcastle city centre, a few months ago,for the UCL cup-tie against my team NUFC !👌👍
in europe football is life culture. the hole day is an event for the game. traveling to the stadium all together singing and chanting, enjoying the game and the way home the same. ⚽️❤
4:54 That celebration is not daily business but they celebrated winning the German Championships. 6:27 That melody is from the TV show based on the Pippi Longstocking novel by Astrid Lindgren. So they are big children. 🙂
Definitely : Glasgow(Celtic v. Rangers),Manc.(MUFC v. MCFC),Merseyside(L'pool v. Everton),Tyne-Wear(NUFC v. S'land),etc.,not incl. the continental European ones ! 👌👍
The ultras officiate fights in some random locations before the game so if for example Dortmund plays Schalke they meet in some field a few minutes away from the Stadion and just have a 20v20 brawl and then everybody leaves and gets to the game
You should take a look at some derby videos - Birmingham city vs Aston Villa (English second city derby) and rangers vs Celtic (Scottish old firm derby) are personal favourites the crowds are wild
I lived in Seattle from 1972 to 1985 and followed the Sounders from Memorial Stadium to the Kingdome when tickets where less than $5. I now live in Norway and don't follow them so closely anymore.
The energy and enthusiasm hordes of men used to spend in wars, they now use in football. It's fantastic. The energy release hasn't disappeared, it's just been rerouted into organised, nergetic passion for a non-bloody war-like competitive sport
Stadiums are built to withstand the bouncing of the crowd and that's concrete bounching and moving. Same as skyscrapers are moving slightly with the wind.
I never been to watch football match live. But since i am in Europe and my husband is football's fans. It was crazy..make you feel embarrassed by the atmosphere. So fun..
On European football being serious, Bill Shankly (Liverpool Manager for 15 years) was quoted as saying "Somebody said that football's a matter of life and death to you. I said 'Listen, it's more important than that.'"
Hello Joel. If you come to UK in summer, you might be out of the football season, but as I keep on about Rugby League, that changed to summer, so you could go to that, but not quite like this atmosphere.
For context regarding the Malmö, from Sweden, clip. That was against Chelsea in Champions League, in London. So pretty far from home. You should check out a video with Tifos from this seasons home-games.
Yeah the tifo against AIK with Kal P Dal gives me chills and so much nostalgia. He left us way too early. "Jag vill leva fri. Jag vill göra vad jag vill Utan att nån säger stopp och till. Jag vill göra vad jag vill. Göra vad jag vill!"
Dude... that was the chanting - now start googling "choreos" - this is where the real fandom artwork starts. Most of the time, these choreos are only performed once. Imagine the amount of creative juices involved here...!!!
I grew up in the Fc Porto Ultras aka Hooligan Firm (Colectivo 96 if anyone wants to research) and its was preety funny seeing the Americanised version of the Ultra lider (the one who holds the mic)
I went to an England game, we needed to get a result to quaify for the World cup finals, and score at the end to do so. I am not joking the stand I was in shook when we scored, have never experienced anything like it, and been going for over 45 years!
The floor has to be built flexbible. Just like bridges need space to expand with temperatures, those floors have been built taking the fans jumping in unison into account. It would collapse if it wasn't flexible.
You have to make the atmosphere between USA and Europe in basket-ball, you will see why Jokic was laughing when reporters asked him if he don’t have pressure with the playoff atmosphere
The statics of the stands are specially designed for this. Anyone who wants to host international football tournaments must build their stadiums according to these standards, otherwise the country will not be awarded the contract to host them.
I was watching a couple of these type of videos last night, and it dawned on me what the difference is between the fans in North America vs Europe. In North America when you buy a ticket to a game, you are going as a spectator. You are going to watch the game, and cheer for your team. In Europe, when you buy a ticket to a game, you are going as a participant in the game. You aren't there to merely watch, you are there to will your team to win. The chants, the noise, the drums are like war cries. They are meant to give energy to your team, and intimidate the opposition. It's just a totally different mentality. The closest I can think of to this in North America would be the fans of the Seattle Seahawks, and the Chicago Blackhawks when they played in the old Chicago Stadium arena.
I went to a baseball game when I visited Seattle, and I honestly found it weird, there where big screens telling people what to cheer and when to cheer, it was boring, and it seemed very superficial
JP, something you wouldn't have picked up on. The Greek team at the 9:20 point in the video are away fans that travelled all the way from Greece to the UK for a Europa League (second tier of European football) game against Manchester City in 2011. They lost the game 3-0. Manchester City have since gone on to become massive footballing powerhouses - probably the best football team in the world at the moment (they are English, European and World Champions at this moment).
I don't care much about football, but my son does...I went along once, but the atmosphere is just cool! I have to go to Frankfurt someday, I love its energy...and passion.
6:35 I mean it does happen in the usa in a way because the wisconsin badgers football does there jump around and the stadium does shake I don't think like that tho it's crazy
On the December the first u should fly over and watch the Derby from St. Pauli against hamburg. It's so damn intense and the energy there when St. Pauli trashes hamburg again will be epic. There is nothing better then a good Derby!
Thank you for reminding me to not go home that weekend 😂 the trains are going to be insane. Last weekend was bad enough with all the Werder Bremen fans. And this derby is going to be especially insane because they are 1. and 2. place respectively.
American Football fans took a LOT of inspiration from European Ultra culture. The person at the bottom of the Fans who leads other in the chants and songs is called a "Capo". They are basically the Hype-People for the clubs. Clubs like the Portland Timbers for example actually do a lot of Choreos and and chants you'd normally see just in Europe. Part of why I actually like them a lot. But its still small-time compared to the levels of Organization especially Ultras in countries like Germany, France, Poland or Italy, etc. have. That's just something entirely different. The level of Identification here with the clubs is something special. Even more so because Fans here are actually members of clubs and therefore a voting right on what happens in them.
These are the 'fun' fans. Wait till you find out about the 'ultras'.
Lest we forget the hooligans.
The guys, wich Control the chants ARE the ultras
The guys, wich Control the chants ARE the ultras
The guys, wich Control the chants ARE the ultras
I know some are technically ultras, but they all behaved very well in these clips. The most brutal ultra clips are like way way more extreme then this. @@DocHempy
My feeling is, in the US, sports are entertainment. In Europe it is passion. But I'm from Europe so maybe I'm wrong.
No no you right. I’m American and sports here are basically entertainment, that’s why we go over the top with all the shows, cheerleaders, halftime shows, fireworks
the question is , what would you pref?:) if u could chose
@@josebustamante9182
You ain't wrong. Living both in US and Poland, definitely passion is in Europe while entertainment is strong side of US fans.
In Europe is tribalism, not just passion.
You're right
Football is deeply rooted within the social fabric of many countries, which is why you often find clubs associated with class struggles, many of the so called working class clubs are still very much proud of that history like Schalke in Germany, who still connect strongly to mining workers culture. Or you have clubs like Liverpool, where the fans celebrated the passing of the famous conservative Thatcher singing "the witch is dead" and stuff. You have Clubs like Celtic, once formed to support the starving poor in Glasgow and many other stories that have little to nothing to do with the sport itself, it just happened to be football that was popular with the people at those times. could have easily been any other team sport but the fact, that all you need is a ball to play it, surely made it easy.
true. absolute
football offers the crowd a political stage as well
thank you I didn't know that (as a German :))
Yeah bread and circuses
16.11.1893 - Sparta Praha!
it's not only football tho, Ice Hockey is intense in Germany aswell
For those wondering here the translations of the German chants:
- BVB 09 (4:54): Borussia Dortmund, black and yellow is my club. Whether it’s the fight against relegation or for trophies, Borussia Dortmund, singing for you so you may win, because there is nothing more beautiful in the world for me and my friends.
- 1. FC Köln (5:28) Regardless of what may happen the red wall stands behind you, does not move from your side, because it’s only here for you. Oh FC Kölle. A whole life for the club.
- Eintracht Frankfurt (6:17, 9:41) Hey Eintracht Frankfurt Shalalalala lalalala (This is sung to the melody of the TV series „Pippi Longstocking“ based on the works of Astrid Lindgren, at the end of the second time „Louder“ is shouted)
And as a bonus the one Dutch chant:
Ajax Amsterdam (9:57): 90 minutes long, for our club from Amsterdam, madhouse on the tribunes, nobody can stop us.
The one from Northern Ireland is "Ryan Giggs on fire, your defence is terrified".
@@pocobullRyan Giggs is from Wales😂 They sing Will Grigg's on fire
@@Fynnw99 I'm Canadian, what the hell do I know? ;)
Very nice of you to bring some of our culture into the world 😊😂 Just one small thing: Before the second "Borussia Dortmund", they also say "Don't want to be a single day without you anymore"
Too bad its from Ajax. Feyenoord has the better fans, the better stadium and the better songs. (And yes, Ajax jas more succes. )
Maybe it’s me but the UK can descend into a chant on any topic and they can be funny depending on the occasion.
Uk Fans amd chants are highly embarrassing
I bet you're fun at parties...@@mrbliss9288
@@mrbliss9288nah unless it’s targeted at you
Fr the one that goes he fingered your mum😂😂😂 and your f*ckin sh*t 😂😂😂
@@itzmulti_5059yep it's true ask United fans what City fans said in the Manchester Derby
The floor has to built to be able to move, otherwise it would break. Like skyscrapers are built to be able to move in the wind... Ajax is not Greece, that's Netherlands, Ajax Amsterdam.
That’s what he said…
He referred to the previous one which indeed is Athens if I read correctly ;)
@@pascalnitsche8746 no. It’s actually Aris Thessaloniki. The team I support :)
Frankfurt by character so Germany
As an Eintracht Frankfurt fan I am sooo proud to see the ultras twice in this video. When we won the europacup the fans gone crazy.
Grüße aus Köln :-)
From a Celtic fam, thanks for beating they rats Rangers. Love Frankfurt after that! ... Loved seeing their ultras also, superb 👏 🍀
Ja, das waren echt geile Bilder aus Frankfurt.
🦅❤
Hätte euch gerne international gehabt wär ein spektakel gewesen für uns als kleiner österreichischer verein :D
Football has a deeper history in Europe and the rest of the world. It's special when there's 4,000 singing a song. I've started songs that 30,000 people have ended up singing. It sends a shiver down your spine and you sit there thinking that I started it.
in case you were wondering about the countries: 4:52 dortmund (germany), 5:28 cologne (germany), 6:17 frankfurt (germany), 7:26 northern ireland (ireland), 8:03 milan (italy), 8:06 marseille (france), 8:57 iceland (iceland), 9:18 thessaloniki (greece), 9:40 frankfurt (germany), 9:57 amsterdam (netherlands), 11:06 malmö (sweden), 11:57 paris (france), 12:28 romania (romania)
Catharsis is the word that comes to mind. When you have had a shit week in a not very stimulating job it can feel amazing to be part of a big group bellowing your lungs out until you are hoarse. If you win so much the better as you can completely justify the celebratory pints and consequent hang-over that you were going to get anyway. Good stuff
It’s definitely why those games are so popular. It may be one of the best way to relieve stress and other emotions, party late when your team win and think of nothing else than enjoying the moment. Personally, every time I went to Football or Rugby games, I had no voice left, sometimes even before the games ended, and I couldn’t speak at least the next 2 days. I lived a year in Chicago. Ambience during American Football games or Baseball games was great but definitely not what I would call crazy and quite different than my experience back in Europe.
the text on the banner the romanian fans are holding up at the end of the vid can be translated to: “we were all roman regiments: moldova, wallachia, transylvania”. imagine being a football player and stepping onto the pitch reading that…. it’d probably make you feel like the game was a significant moment in national history, and not just a football game…
I have wondered about that banner.
Thanks for the translation.
@@drigerdranzer7514and they chant Romanian national anthem
@@alincocos7076 Yes as they have the national flag.
we were all *romanian regiments: Moldova, Wallachia, Transylvania
@gamer1q658 nope, actually Roman. In the 2 century for over 150 years. Romania gets its name from that. Romanian is a Roman language. Ancestry traces back to the actual Roman legions.
Hi with the flooring moving it's built in like structures in earthquake areas saves them falling down so often regards Dave
a lot of them are to stop the resonant frequency which seems to happen a lot when people jump or walk together
You have to applaud the engineering and the build quality of those stadiums. I don’t know if I would like to be there though seeing the concrete flex as much as it did. 😮
@@JeremyParker072 If the concrete is flexing, it won't crack :)
Reminds me of the Terry Pratchett novel “Unseen Academicals” where he describes ‘the crowd’ in football as an almost sentient being; a beast made up of thousands passionate souls. I’m not into sports at all, but even I have a deep respect for that kind of collective passion and the sheer force behind that 😌
The U.S. have FANS at a soccer game ?!?! Who was expecting that! ^-^ Respect!
well, the National Icelandic football team (that was the giant, the dragon, the bull and the eagle on blue) summoned quite literally half the country to watch them. And of course we are enthusiastic when any Icelander manages (or any team) to gain international recognition. For a country like America it must be much harder to get recognized - hence summon the enthusiasm of the crowd.
Weren’t they also doing a Viking Chang if I remember correctly
@@lichkinggamer5708 Yes, but I believe they took that from one of the European club teams that had done that for years beforehand
Yes, the 'Thunder Clap' as it's now known. An Icelandic team played Motherwell FC (my club as it happens) where they saw the supporters doing this. They then copied, and then they started doing it when the Icelandic national team played.
I honestly don't know if 'we' invented it or not, but the Icelandic definitely got it from us.
In 6:20 - I started to smile, it was the title tune from Pippi Longstocking!
In the Uk the crowd is known as the 12th man, because their chanting lifts the team and act as an incentive.
Same here in the Netherlands
Germany too
In the US, sports are family events. You bring your family, get some hot dogs, and enjoy the show. A Disneyland basically. In Europe, you put on your armor, say goodbye to your loved ones, and tell your fellow warriors that if you should fall to tell your sons that you died with honor.
A lot of clubs have their own song. It's worth listening to some like Liverpool and AS Roma, because when the whole stadium sings a beautiful song it's really moving.
Dann hör mal die Hymne von Hertha BSC, gänsehaut pur, gibt nix besseres
@@zuhause61 ist ne nette Hymne, aber halt "we are sailing" umgedichtet.
Die beiden Hymnen des AS Rom wurden komplett nur für das Team komponiert und das merkt man den Songs auch an.
@@helgaioannidis9365 Aber warum Liverpool ^^
In Dortmund we have a song singing about faking our grandmother's death to get a free day from our job so we can attend international matches (which are mostly on tuesdays and wednesdays)
5:30 that’s the fans of Cologne. I live about two miles from the stadium as the crow flies, and I can hear the chanting from my apartment when my window is open on match days. And there are a number of busy streets and a substantial forest between my place and the stadium.
Alaaf uss em Veedel!
10:18 - "so this is a dutch gathering, with the guy on the lightpost" You're right - these are the fans of Ajax Amsterdam, a well known dutch club.
Nobody in Europe, would even take the title of this video seriously 😂
rather than every country thinks they have the best fans, its more like every town/club is convinced they have the best fans
Easy. Funnies footbal chants are from england, best fanbases and atmosphere: Germany, Nnd for basketball it is either Serbia or Greece.
Best atmosphere in the world?
I'll give my opinion: WESTFALENSTADION 🖤💛
You should watch a video of the choreographies the Ultras do, especially in Italy and Germany they are huge
The match in Marseille and the last one in Romania are matches with the national team and the crowds are singing the national anthems (unlike in the US, the national anthems are played only when the international teams play or frequently at the Cup Final, but not for league matches or the regular Cup matches; not even at international club matches such as the Champions League). Not quite the same as the football chants themselves.
Except in Turkey. They play the national anthem before every league match.
IN the US, sports is entertainment like all the major leagues. In Europe, football is a way of life, a religion, a sense of belonging, an identity. The players are the fans' soldiers, they fight on the pitch while the fans provide the atmosphere to scare the away team.
You’re describing college football yall Europeans are just ignorant on American sports
Those call and response type chant like the Seattle sounders do are very common in Germany, but they only work if you got thousands chanting it instead of the 10s or 100s participating here.
In Germany fan songs are also often times like love letters to your club, like at 5:27
Love it! Especially that Eintracht Frankfurt featured twice!
If you want to delve a little deeper into the atmosphere of a football game, I recommend the video by Connor Sullivan "Mein ERSTER DEUTSCHER FUSSBALL SPIEL! * Verrückt *"
This is a video of an American at his first football game and the atmosphere beforehand. Very well done in my opinion.
Love from Romania.. the last clip in this series. Cheers mate.
Considering Europe, you should also watch fans from the eastern part of Germany, especially Dynamo Dresden and Union Berlin (but don't get fooled by RB Leipzig fans as they view their matches more like commercial events, while for the majority of other fan cultures, football is more like a religion). Also Turkish fans in general are spectacular, they are so loud that they regularly outclass fans from other European countries at away matches (with the away side often having just about 10% of the tickets) during European club competitions as well as international matches.
When you're standing in the middle of a crowd like that you jump automatically .... because of how hyped you get yourself from it and also because the floor just bounces back up making you jump even if you aren't trying to do so
I've been to numerous NHL games and International Ice Hockey games, pretty much the same as you've shown in soccer with so much energy in the International games.
ppl forget, america its just show and entertainment, where as europe, sports replaced tradition and tribal wars. europe basically is compeatig tribes just without slaughter nowadays
I played kettle drums for years with the ultras in the 90s, I was so young all the bigger older guys were so amazing I went with the group everywhere up and down the country, by train, ferry, vans and cars, they were like an extension of my family. My father was thrilled, he brought me to the first game when I was 5 and when I was born he made an announced at the stadium loudspeaker, "another supporter was born today" 😂
7:25 I still love northern Irelands "Will Grigg's on fire" song, he had a good season (In englands 3rd or 2nd league) prior to the euros 2016 and some fan posted this song online.
They sang it every match in the euros and Will Grigg didn't play a single minute hahaha
As a german I dare say american fans are more cute than ….ambitious ! No offense !
Will Grigg's on Fire is a classic. :) Gala Rizzatto herself even had to smile about their adaption of her song. :)
There are some that also include chilling chants from morocco as well. Those are amazing.
for you is sport, for us is life.
Bro yeah you're getting it, is is actually more fun than the game itself. This is why for many people in some specific teams the performance of the fans is more important than the performance of their team and the result of the game itself.
European footie fans win easily over American fans;although with the Europeans,it can get too extreme(ie hooligans ='Ultras' -PSG and Milan,etc);but when its good,its good,ie the Dortmund fans [5:10] who marched through Newcastle city centre, a few months ago,for the UCL cup-tie against my team NUFC !👌👍
The "fight and win" guy from Seattle was beyond hilarious.
in europe football is life culture. the hole day is an event for the game. traveling to the stadium all together singing and chanting, enjoying the game and the way home the same. ⚽️❤
Loved it that you said Football and not Soccer, thanks for that
7:58 I think thats the melody of the song "Love is my Rebellion" by Frida Gold. A German Artist.
This mass entusiasm sometimes enlights the warrior in men.
9:15 This is called the “Boom Boom Clapp”. Seattle Sounders do this at every single home match and the entire stadium participates. It’s amazing
4:54 That celebration is not daily business but they celebrated winning the German Championships.
6:27 That melody is from the TV show based on the Pippi Longstocking novel by Astrid Lindgren. So they are big children. 🙂
You should listen to "Les Corons" from the RC Lens in France - Listens to their half time chant against Arsenal this year, chilling how epic it is
You need to check out Dynamo Dresden. They play in the third division, but the atmosphere is incredible.
I'm a Fortuna Düsseldorf supporter and I say hats off to the Dresden supporters for their amazing choreos
7:39 "Kerch bridge on fire! Your defense is terrified"
Yes, those are the lyrics. Slava Ukraine!
It's not just for football. You will see the same at a basketball, handball water polo etc matches as well.
you have to watch the beginning of the matches of Sport Lisboa e Benfica, a team from Portugal that uses an eagle while singing the team's music
thats by far not even the hardest videos from europe... when its derbytime it turns into a rampage overhere.
Definitely : Glasgow(Celtic v. Rangers),Manc.(MUFC v. MCFC),Merseyside(L'pool v. Everton),Tyne-Wear(NUFC v. S'land),etc.,not incl. the continental European ones ! 👌👍
That crowd with the flags jumping up and down wasn't during the game- that was during the warm-up
The ultras officiate fights in some random locations before the game so if for example Dortmund plays Schalke they meet in some field a few minutes away from the Stadion and just have a 20v20 brawl and then everybody leaves and gets to the game
This diferente porque hay descenso. Juegas para no ser el peor. Gracias por mostrar
You should watch the video: "ultras our way of life", that is how serious it is, and also why there are a lot of fights with police and other clubs
The Danish chant at around 9:02 0nwards was great! Well known from when they won the European championship. An old Viking chant!
It’s wen I be fans meat that’s when they start fighting and depending on the rivalry they are fights to the deth
You should take a look at some derby videos - Birmingham city vs Aston Villa (English second city derby) and rangers vs Celtic (Scottish old firm derby) are personal favourites the crowds are wild
'I believe that we will win' is just adorable to be honest. I just want to pinch their cheeks 🤗
Send you love from Romania❤❤❤❤
I lived in Seattle from 1972 to 1985 and followed the Sounders from Memorial Stadium to the Kingdome when tickets where less than $5. I now live in Norway and don't follow them so closely anymore.
The energy and enthusiasm hordes of men used to spend in wars, they now use in football. It's fantastic. The energy release hasn't disappeared, it's just been rerouted into organised, nergetic passion for a non-bloody war-like competitive sport
Stadiums are built to withstand the bouncing of the crowd and that's concrete bounching and moving. Same as skyscrapers are moving slightly with the wind.
I never been to watch football match live. But since i am in Europe and my husband is football's fans. It was crazy..make you feel embarrassed by the atmosphere. So fun..
On European football being serious, Bill Shankly (Liverpool Manager for 15 years) was quoted as saying "Somebody said that football's a matter of life and death to you. I said 'Listen, it's more important than that.'"
In the Netherlands we jumped so much the stadium broke that happened like 7 times since 2012
I moved to Cologne in 2020, Rhein Energie Stadium atmosphere is mental
Hello Joel. If you come to UK in summer, you might be out of the football season, but as I keep on about Rugby League, that changed to summer, so you could go to that, but not quite like this atmosphere.
For context regarding the Malmö, from Sweden, clip. That was against Chelsea in Champions League, in London. So pretty far from home. You should check out a video with Tifos from this seasons home-games.
Yeah the tifo against AIK with Kal P Dal gives me chills and so much nostalgia.
He left us way too early.
"Jag vill leva fri.
Jag vill göra vad jag vill
Utan att nån säger stopp och till.
Jag vill göra vad jag vill.
Göra vad jag vill!"
Don't worry about the European football stadiums, the designers know the fans and build everything so that the buildings can withstand it. XD
Man you definitely need to watch USA vs Europe fans in basketball, I promise it will blow your mind
Seattle's got the vibe. Dude on the mic is gold.
Dude... that was the chanting - now start googling "choreos" - this is where the real fandom artwork starts. Most of the time, these choreos are only performed once. Imagine the amount of creative juices involved here...!!!
I grew up in the Fc Porto Ultras aka Hooligan Firm (Colectivo 96 if anyone wants to research) and its was preety funny seeing the Americanised version of the Ultra lider (the one who holds the mic)
i feel it fair to point out that the southern american countries are just as fanatical in the support of football if not more so 😏
Bread and circuses. Imagine these men stood up and fought for things that actually matter.
It's even greater in Britain. They've got fantastic chants!
Sunshine on Leith/ Edinburgh
or You'll never walk alone/ Liverpool. Many more!❤
Max-Morlock-Stadium in Nuremberg, Germany always got some good shaking going on. 😄🥁🙌
Football is Religion here in Europe ,that is so Amazing
Cheers from ROMANIA!!! Search for Giga Hagi...one of the best footbal players in the world back in the '90.
I went to an England game, we needed to get a result to quaify for the World cup finals, and score at the end to do so. I am not joking the stand I was in shook when we scored, have never experienced anything like it, and been going for over 45 years!
The floor has to be built flexbible. Just like bridges need space to expand with temperatures, those floors have been built taking the fans jumping in unison into account. It would collapse if it wasn't flexible.
You have to make the atmosphere between USA and Europe in basket-ball, you will see why Jokic was laughing when reporters asked him if he don’t have pressure with the playoff atmosphere
The statics of the stands are specially designed for this. Anyone who wants to host international football tournaments must build their stadiums according to these standards, otherwise the country will not be awarded the contract to host them.
Hope You will have the chance to experience the atmosphere of a good football game once live. It is really great
I was watching a couple of these type of videos last night, and it dawned on me what the difference is between the fans in North America vs Europe. In North America when you buy a ticket to a game, you are going as a spectator. You are going to watch the game, and cheer for your team. In Europe, when you buy a ticket to a game, you are going as a participant in the game. You aren't there to merely watch, you are there to will your team to win. The chants, the noise, the drums are like war cries. They are meant to give energy to your team, and intimidate the opposition. It's just a totally different mentality. The closest I can think of to this in North America would be the fans of the Seattle Seahawks, and the Chicago Blackhawks when they played in the old Chicago Stadium arena.
You have too Look a Stadium vlog, Hamburg vs st.pauli
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I went to a baseball game when I visited Seattle, and I honestly found it weird, there where big screens telling people what to cheer and when to cheer, it was boring, and it seemed very superficial
JP, something you wouldn't have picked up on. The Greek team at the 9:20 point in the video are away fans that travelled all the way from Greece to the UK for a Europa League (second tier of European football) game against Manchester City in 2011. They lost the game 3-0. Manchester City have since gone on to become massive footballing powerhouses - probably the best football team in the world at the moment (they are English, European and World Champions at this moment).
You can also check out some videos with choreography... Sometimes they seem like Armageddon, especially in Eastern Europe, where I'm from.
I don't care much about football, but my son does...I went along once, but the atmosphere is just cool! I have to go to Frankfurt someday, I love its energy...and passion.
6:35 I mean it does happen in the usa in a way because the wisconsin badgers football does there jump around and the stadium does shake I don't think like that tho it's crazy
On the December the first u should fly over and watch the Derby from St. Pauli against hamburg. It's so damn intense and the energy there when St. Pauli trashes hamburg again will be epic. There is nothing better then a good Derby!
Thank you for reminding me to not go home that weekend 😂 the trains are going to be insane. Last weekend was bad enough with all the Werder Bremen fans.
And this derby is going to be especially insane because they are 1. and 2. place respectively.
Pauli are sanitised and commercial now,joke of a club.
You have to watch Olympique de Marseille and the RC Lens
American Football fans took a LOT of inspiration from European Ultra culture. The person at the bottom of the Fans who leads other in the chants and songs is called a "Capo". They are basically the Hype-People for the clubs. Clubs like the Portland Timbers for example actually do a lot of Choreos and and chants you'd normally see just in Europe. Part of why I actually like them a lot.
But its still small-time compared to the levels of Organization especially Ultras in countries like Germany, France, Poland or Italy, etc. have. That's just something entirely different. The level of Identification here with the clubs is something special. Even more so because Fans here are actually members of clubs and therefore a voting right on what happens in them.