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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 😌
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 !👌👍
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 ! 👌👍
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.
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.'"
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
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. 🙂
"we have a lots of sports so the fans scattered i would say than Europe" -- WTF Europe not only has Football please...check Basketball, Handball , Hockey Waterpolo fans as well on youtube , you probably suprised we got many many sports as well , the difference we got CLUBS and not FRANCHISES and with that 1 club has multiple sport teams : Football,Basketball, Handball, Waterpolo, volleyball, hockey etc etc so we support THE CLUB and all of their sports team meanwhile USA you support the 1 franchise team in 1 sport and we not choose our club its come down from father to son under the years its in the family
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..
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
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 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!
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.
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
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
If you are interested the second video is from my hometown in germany. translated They are singing: "No matter what ever happens the "Red Wall" stays behind you will never leave your side cause only for you we are hear - Ohhh FC Cologne my whole live for the Club" and you are right....this is more fun than the actual game!
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.
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.
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)
You're too sweet, genuine reaction and admiration where you recognise that we are not the same. The game is different altogether, the fans and teams are rivals, pubs dont host fans from both sides on match days. You wouldnt Spurs & Arsenal fans in the same pub, there would be a tear up and people get hurt. Football is classically named a gentleman's game played by thugs and rugby is a thug's game played by gentlemen. Football is our national sport, we take part a lot and we watch a lot. GB was a yob's island and hopefully most of the hooliganism has been supressed and the big instigators and troublemakers brought to heel somehwat. We had the Hillsborough disaster which changed the way venues host fans. Americans don't do soccer the same way we do football (ball to foot, US football is really hand-egg) 😂
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.
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.
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.
"Hooliganism' has somewhat 'detatched itself' from the Clubs in Europe. They're still there, but the demolishing, and bíg fights are more rare now, then they were 30-40 years ago. Sadly, they dó still occur. Many of the Hooligans 'behave' somewhat, and only 'aggressively' chant and sweep up the crowds in and around the stadiums now, which falls under the term/banner "Ultra's": Fans that kéép singing shouting, dancing, clapping, before, throughout and after the match, and create an enthousiastic entourage for their team, and a pretty intimidating atmosphere for an opponent. Non-stpo chants, banners, stadium-torches, lárge tifo-actions: Pure and wonderful support, which often is not only very original, and fantastic to see, very often there's a huge dose of sarcasm and humor in it, making it even more enjoyable. US' 'soccer' has fáns. EU-Football has REAL supporters! All due respectt, but the USA is DECADES behind on this, compared to Europe.
I believe Seattle is known for it's coffee so perhaps the Seatle chant guy was getting a bit high on the old caffeine. If you could harness the energy coming out of the Euro game chants you could power a small city or two. I wonder how often they have to inspect the stadiums for wear and tear? 😳😳
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
Football/soccer in the USA appears to be more of a family-oriented sport. And, while there will be families at football in Europe, it will always be huge groups of young men creating the wild atmosphere. It's crazy when the stands start to bounce, especially of you are below one that looks like it might collapse at any second! I went to the 1990 World Cup in Italy as a Scotland fan and, yeah, the football was great. But the atmosphere, the parties, the dancing... that was what really made it. Helped having Sweden, Brazil and Costa Rica as our group opponents; all fans that enjoy a good laugh.
That chant at 7:00 min is literally Pippi longstocking/långstrump LOL. Villo vill du veta varför villan heter så, här kommer pippi långstrump! again at 9:47
Yes we are the 12th man.. the best possible way to support our team, regardless of the results.. they need our chants and everything we can give to push them through and forward.. ewige Liebe Fortuna geschwor'n...Seite an Seite für immer nach vorn ❤🤍
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
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? ;)
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.
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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.
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.
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.
In the Uk the crowd is known as the 12th man, because their chanting lifts the team and act as an incentive.
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 U.S. have FANS at a soccer game ?!?! Who was expecting that! ^-^ Respect!
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 😌
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 ^^
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.
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.
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.
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.
In 6:20 - I started to smile, it was the title tune from Pippi Longstocking!
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.
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
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.
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!
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
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
Love it! Especially that Eintracht Frankfurt featured twice!
As a german I dare say american fans are more cute than ….ambitious ! No offense !
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.
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
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 !👌👍
Love from Romania.. the last clip in this series. Cheers mate.
The fact there isn't the Liverpool fans chant is a crime lol. they chant "you'll never walk alone" and it's moving.
Liverpool and Borussia cup game was massive. Same anthem.
Don't worry about the European football stadiums, the designers know the fans and build everything so that the buildings can withstand it. XD
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 ! 👌👍
The "fight and win" guy from Seattle was beyond hilarious.
for you is sport, for us is life.
7:39 "Kerch bridge on fire! Your defense is terrified"
Yes, those are the lyrics. Slava Ukraine!
There are some that also include chilling chants from morocco as well. Those are amazing.
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.
Will Grigg's on Fire is a classic. :) Gala Rizzatto herself even had to smile about their adaption of her song. :)
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.'"
That crowd with the flags jumping up and down wasn't during the game- that was during the warm-up
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
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. 🙂
"we have a lots of sports so the fans scattered i would say than Europe" -- WTF Europe not only has Football please...check Basketball, Handball , Hockey Waterpolo fans as well on youtube , you probably suprised we got many many sports as well , the difference we got CLUBS and not FRANCHISES and with that 1 club has multiple sport teams : Football,Basketball, Handball, Waterpolo, volleyball, hockey etc etc so we support THE CLUB and all of their sports team meanwhile USA you support the 1 franchise team in 1 sport and we not choose our club its come down from father to son under the years its in the family
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..
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 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
Loved it that you said Football and not Soccer, thanks for that
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 believe that we will win' is just adorable to be honest. I just want to pinch their cheeks 🤗
It's even greater in Britain. They've got fantastic chants!
Sunshine on Leith/ Edinburgh
or You'll never walk alone/ Liverpool. Many more!❤
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!
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
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 atmosphere of literally any sport is much different in the US vs Europe. Football, hockey, handball, basketball you name it
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
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 😏
It's not just for football. You will see the same at a basketball, handball water polo etc matches as well.
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
Max-Morlock-Stadium in Nuremberg, Germany always got some good shaking going on. 😄🥁🙌
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Bread and circuses. Imagine these men stood up and fought for things that actually matter.
The Danish chant at around 9:02 0nwards was great! Well known from when they won the European championship. An old Viking chant!
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
If you are interested the second video is from my hometown in germany.
translated They are singing:
"No matter what ever happens the "Red Wall" stays behind you
will never leave your side cause only for you we are hear - Ohhh FC Cologne my whole live for the Club"
and you are right....this is more fun than the actual game!
Man you definitely need to watch USA vs Europe fans in basketball, I promise it will blow your mind
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.
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).
That Seattle one was absolutely pathetic Joel. Very insulted that you could actually ever think this would happen in Europe. ❤ from U.K.
C´mon m8, they´re trying. lol From Sweden
@@actionalex3611 they tried but it was still pathetic. love from the Netherlands
Seattle's got the vibe. Dude on the mic is gold.
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.
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)
You're too sweet, genuine reaction and admiration where you recognise that we are not the same. The game is different altogether, the fans and teams are rivals, pubs dont host fans from both sides on match days. You wouldnt Spurs & Arsenal fans in the same pub, there would be a tear up and people get hurt. Football is classically named a gentleman's game played by thugs and rugby is a thug's game played by gentlemen. Football is our national sport, we take part a lot and we watch a lot. GB was a yob's island and hopefully most of the hooliganism has been supressed and the big instigators and troublemakers brought to heel somehwat. We had the Hillsborough disaster which changed the way venues host fans. Americans don't do soccer the same way we do football (ball to foot, US football is really hand-egg) 😂
Thought i never would see such a compilation without Liverpool "You'll never walk alone". It gives me shivers everytime.
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.
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.
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.
"Hooliganism' has somewhat 'detatched itself' from the Clubs in Europe. They're still there, but the demolishing, and bíg fights are more rare now, then they were 30-40 years ago.
Sadly, they dó still occur.
Many of the Hooligans 'behave' somewhat, and only 'aggressively' chant and sweep up the crowds in and around the stadiums now, which falls under the term/banner "Ultra's": Fans that kéép singing shouting, dancing, clapping, before, throughout and after the match, and create an enthousiastic entourage for their team, and a pretty intimidating atmosphere for an opponent.
Non-stpo chants, banners, stadium-torches, lárge tifo-actions: Pure and wonderful support, which often is not only very original, and fantastic to see, very often there's a huge dose of sarcasm and humor in it, making it even more enjoyable.
US' 'soccer' has fáns.
EU-Football has REAL supporters!
All due respectt, but the USA is DECADES behind on this, compared to Europe.
Watch “Ultras Our way of Life” 👌🏽
I believe Seattle is known for it's coffee so perhaps the Seatle chant guy was getting a bit high on the old caffeine. If you could harness the energy coming out of the Euro game chants you could power a small city or two.
I wonder how often they have to inspect the stadiums for wear and tear? 😳😳
some of the european stadiums get trashed every game
The Frankfurt stadium that was shown in the video was the venue a few weeks ago for the two NFL games, just saying
Hope You will have the chance to experience the atmosphere of a good football game once live. It is really great
6:40 Yes, the stadiums were specially designed to absorb the impacts and not collapse under them. :)
Hey dude, you missed the south of Borussia Dortmund. The most amazing crowd and the loudest in Europe 🤠
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
Football/soccer in the USA appears to be more of a family-oriented sport. And, while there will be families at football in Europe, it will always be huge groups of young men creating the wild atmosphere. It's crazy when the stands start to bounce, especially of you are below one that looks like it might collapse at any second! I went to the 1990 World Cup in Italy as a Scotland fan and, yeah, the football was great. But the atmosphere, the parties, the dancing... that was what really made it. Helped having Sweden, Brazil and Costa Rica as our group opponents; all fans that enjoy a good laugh.
You should also do a comparison between Europe and Latin America Fans. Crazy and chilling atmosphere here in LATAM.
This diferente porque hay descenso. Juegas para no ser el peor. Gracias por mostrar
I moved to Cologne in 2020, Rhein Energie Stadium atmosphere is mental
That chant at 7:00 min is literally Pippi longstocking/långstrump LOL. Villo vill du veta varför villan heter så, här kommer pippi långstrump! again at 9:47
Yes we are the 12th man.. the best possible way to support our team, regardless of the results.. they need our chants and everything we can give to push them through and forward.. ewige Liebe Fortuna geschwor'n...Seite an Seite für immer nach vorn ❤🤍
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
What happened to the Italy part?
Cheers from ROMANIA!!! Search for Giga Hagi...one of the best footbal players in the world back in the '90.