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How can you explain something like this? I think and I wonder… It is hard to find your words. How can you make someone who hasn’t a clue to understand something that for you is so important. Because this article is dedicated to those who don’t have a clue. To those quiet spectators, to those journalists, to those parents, to those girlfriends, to the majority. To those people who don’t understand us.
I will try to make a short history of this tifo item. AS it would be expected, the first scarves appeared in England. Made of thick wool, under the form of simple big stripes, with the colors of the team.Then, with the birth of organized supporters in Italy, scarves and the way they were used (stretched above the head) were also present in Italy.

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I often thought about this article. Many times it began different. Today it begins like this:”The prisoners of one belief”(Prigionieri di una fede - SS Lazio). We all realize what the Lazio supporters wanted to say: total devotion for the colors of the club you love.

But now I think about us all. The supporters! Of course, I can never strip my ultra clothes. I will always see the world, not only the sport, by the eyes of the one who sees a football match from the worst place of the stadium. By the eyes of the one who doesn’t need any comfort in following his team for thousands of miles. So, I am an ultras. I don’t have anything to apologize to the other supporters but today I will be their voice also.

This is the tough true, we are prisoners. The football is transforming, little by little in something else. And we can’t do anything about it. Invisible bars of a jail from the future are holding us in the place we like to be. Or we should I talk in the past tense? We liked to be?

When football was invented, and many years afterwards, other sports were in fashion. Tennis, rugby, cricket, box and later on, cyclism, were on the first pages of the newspapers. The players and especially the spectators at football were often looked as the bad side of society.. The workers, the urchins, the fools, people from bad neighborhoods etc.

As a sport, I have to admit football isn’t a big deal. Too many people are following a ball, too little ending of this commune effort. It also takes about 2 hours… And then, what’s its magic??? How was it possible to become the “king of sports” ??? The answer is simple but also painful. THE SPECTATORS. The people. Why painful? Read the rest of this entry »

Here is an interview we took from 2 of our German friends who recently visted Romania to make an idea about the situation here(it was at the end of 2003). We took the liberty to ask them also something about the scene in Germany. I hope that you too can get an idea from this interview, and, who knows, maybe you decide to come to visit one day… If you decide to come to Romania let us know. You are our guests!

1-What was your reasons for coming to Romania?
We wanted to get an impression on a new country and the situation there. It
was not just for the football thing, we’d also came for learning something
about the conditions the people are living in. For us as part (since
reunification) of a western-european country it was quite interesting of
getting a little bit in touch with the way of romanian everyday-life. Over
here it was seen (by our friends, families etc.) as a big adventure,
sometimes also risk, to travel to Romania, because nearly no-one usually
goes there for holidays or other reasons (so nobody knows much about Romania
going behind the level that the capital is Bucuresti), so this was kind of
strange to them. Also it was something to prove our ability to do such a
travel all by ourself’s (planning, financiating …), so it also was a test
for ourself to say “oh yes, we can do that, no big deal!”.

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