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Football: tifos, a must-have in the stands of football stadiums
Football: tifos, a must-have in the stands of football stadiums
(France 2)
Present on the 8 Heures set, Thursday April 4, journalist Samuel Ollivier is interested in tifos, these visual animations which are offered by supporters during football matches.
In the stands of football stadiums, you can find fans. This is’“a visual animation which is offered when the players enter the pitch”indicates journalist Samuel Ollivier, present on the set of 8 Heures, Thursday April 4. “In general, it is only managed by the supporters”he adds, specifying that tifos appeared in Italy between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s.
“Specialist” tifos clubs in France
“A beautiful tifo, first of all, is when it is shared by the entire stadium. This is the case for example in Barcelona”, in Spain, indicates the journalist, taking the example of a 2007 match with 98,000 spectators against Real Madrid. In France, “there are clubs which are specialists” tifos, underlines Samuel Ollivier. He cites the clubs in the cities of Lens (Pas-de-Calais), Saint-Étienne (Loire), Lyon (Rhône), Paris and Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône).
