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.
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.
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"
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 😌
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.
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.
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.
Correct, that describes it very well, large parts of Europe were divided into many princely states, these could be the remnants of the conflicts of that time, which are now mostly carried out in sports, sometimes there are also fights. xd
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. 😮
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.
Football, especially in Europe, has become the way in which people (especially men) vent their aggression and feelings of rivalry with others. For centuries those aggressions have turned into national rivalries and wars. Football seems like a "safe" way of venting those base feelings. It gets even crazier in world cups and euro cups where patriotism adds to this, but again, football is their way of dealing with local and national rivalries without anyone getting hurt (mostly).
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)
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 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)
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 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" 😂
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
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.
Ive been to sport events in both Europe and America (I'm European) and i can tell you that division 3 German football matches has a better atmosphere and culture than what i experienced when i watched a Dallas Cowboys game live.
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.
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.
It's just such a different culture if we're talking about supporting your team. Especially when talking about when "your" team play in their own stadium, it's getting quite insane over here in europe
In Europe the mains sports like football (soccer) and rugby are tribal. It's town vs town, then elevates to county vs county, then elevates to country vs country,
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
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. ⚽️❤
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.
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
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
The European cup game of germany yesterday is a nice showcase of this as well. Stadium completely packed with germans (cause the cup is in germany this year) and over 50 THOUSAND people gathered in berlin for public viewing of the game. There would have been more, but authoroties had to put a stop to it, because it'd have been too much.
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.
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 ! 👌👍
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 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
I feel like Americans are slowly learning more and more its a new sport for them. But they are passionate got nothing but love for Americans from all the ones I've met I met a few at the games in Manchester and the main thing I noticed is how excited they get when a yellow was handed out. Its like a kid being given sweets it's funny how new they all are 🤣 But don't get me wrong they are passionate some guys legit watch games at 5 am or 7 am every week. Crazy I could never wake up at 7am for a match 🤣 It will eventually grow in America to how it is in Europe just gonna take years
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...!!!
What I notice about the American crowds is that the fan culture seems to be imported and grafted onto the experience - it doesn't come naturally to US "soccer" fans- they appear to be trying hard but their hearts aren't quite in it. The European clips seem. to be a mix of domestic clubs and international games which are two very different experiences.
well, if you want to see how a german crowd reacts to american football ? just watch some vids about the nfl game last year in munich. i dont believe you cant that compare to US too. same goes for basketball.
Oh man you should totally check out Haka and Sipi Tua war dances!! They are basically something New Zealanders and Tongans do before a football match! It is extremely important to Oceania culture so as an Australian it’d be so fun to see an American react to them! They’re crazy awesome man!!
They do it for Rugby games as well and French love watching it. They’re also great players so if we have a good enough team, we’re sure to watch a great game. They’re definitely awesome people.
11:07 "FRAMÅT MALMÖ" "HEJA DI BLÅE" "FORWARD MALMÖ" "COME ON THE BLUES" Call and respond chant from the Most Champions of Sweden Malmö FF. That was away in the Uefa Euro League against Chelsea when 3500 Malmö fans were outsinging 36500 Chelsea fans away at Stamford Bridge. Our own home support is electrifying with megasize flags, big tifo displays and flares. We sing for 2 hours straight minus 15 minutes at half time break.
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.
Aww the Iceland thing was in it. It was in 2016 in the Uefa Euro cup. Iceland finally being able to play in the tournament and they were kinda good. Whenever they played the Icelandic fans would to that (clapping and shouting). So great...
Hehehe.. The US has a lot of sports.. 😂 There's literally not a single sport in the US that isn't more or less enthusiastically represented in every European country - we're prepping, be prepared to have to actually fight the world in order to become World Champions. 😂❤ P.S.: I didn't know Neville (3:15) was American... 😳
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.
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
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. 🙂
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..
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.
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.
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.
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!
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 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.
