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E 'beginning of the fifties that fans of all teams have begun to organize themselves in clubs, more and more to follow in their business, to promote all sorts of initiatives, from the celebratory to those choreography, though still rudimentary, and pioneering.
Even at the Olympics in ancient Greece there was the practice even in the absence of typhoid and written testimony with the passage of time has changed the way we support the "colors" of the beloved team, leaving unchanged the concept of "animation" with the voice, flags, banners.
With the explosion of football in Italy in the period after World War, organized fan clubs spread and multiply quickly.
In the 60s it formed the first true associative structures of fans, known as "centers of coordination." Also born of the most vocal supporters coagulate club and organized activities, such as "loyalists", borrowed words from many fans. He was the magician
Helenio Herrera, coach of the great team neroazzurra, to give impetus to the creation of a coordination that could serve as reference for the numerous fans of Inter. The history of organized supporters in Italy begins this way: "President Moratti, I do not understand why we do not have fans when we play away," said Argentine coach. From this
idea to form the first group of supporters, "Musketeers neroazzurri" willing to follow most of the expenses, paying the price of costly sacrifices. Thirty years have passed since then and typhoid has become one of the most organized of social phenomena.
70 YEARS: THE BIRTH OF ULTRA ' In the late sixties and early seventies were born in Italy the first groups of ultras groups of supporters between the ages of 15 and 20 years that stand out clearly from "classical" model, adult football spectator. Collected in the popular sectors of the stadiums, where companies stimulate the influx of youth through special campaigns subscriptions at reduced prices, the ultras immediately show a number of features that makes it a peculiar phenomenon in Italian football: the sense of identification with one's "territory", ie that sector of the curve bounded by one or more banners with the name and symbol group, a paramilitary look taken from that in vogue in extremist political organizations: parkas, boots, camouflage military jackets and covered with "patches" of their team, with the addition of the scarf with the colors of the team.
But the ultras are distinguished primarily by the adoption of all elements of the innovative way of supporting the team and, more generally, to attend the game. From "torcidas" Brazil is again the use of trumpets and drums, from the English supporters' scarf (scarves, and expanses are raised by the fans, giving the visual effect of waves) and the accompanying chorus of game action. until it assumed an obsession of encouraging their favorite players and confused and intimidated opponents.
Typhus is therefore considered part of the strategy and tactics adopted to win a match: it becomes the "twelfth player".
also spreads the use of pyrotechnics (fireworks by hand signals for marine, smoke canisters, rockets and flares to light color), intended to give an extra touch of liveliness to the terraces.
Subentra cosi per la prima volta il concetto di "coreografia della curva", una pratica del tutto originale che si evolverà di pari passo con il grado di organizzazione dei gruppi ultrà.
La coreografia diviene il marchio dello stile italiano. Spettacoli e scenografie su vasta scala, di grande impatto, fantasmagoriche, enormi, multicromatiche. E' la fantasia, tutta italiana, al potere.
Dal sipario della Gradinata Nord di Genova che ha scomodato persino il quotidiano francese "Le Monde" alla curva Fiesole di Firenze che disegna i contorni dei monumenti fiorentini rifacendosi alla pianta topografica originaria.
Il gruppo ultrà più antico è la Fossa dei Leoni del Milan, fondato nel 1968, che adotta il name of the old training ground for the Rossoneri and fits in the field of popular Ramp 17 (straight center).
Even back in 1951 in Turin was built the club of "loyalists wheat" which is still present in the formation of groups of the curve Marathon.
born in 1969 also Cucchiaroni Ultras Tito Sampdoria (first to use the name "Ultras") and immediately after, the Boys Inter. By the seventies witnessed a process of aggregation of the many youth that live in now microgroups curves of the big clubs: born of Verona and Gialloblu Brigades, named after the place where they gather, the Purple Club
Vieusseux Fiorentina (1971 ), the Ultra del Napoli (1972); le Brigate Rossonere del Milan, la Fossa dei Grifoni del Genoa e gli Ultrà Granata del Torino (1973); i Forever Ultrà del Bologna (1974); i Fighters della Juventus (1975); le Brigate Neroazzurre dell'Atalanta (1976); gli Eagles' Supporters della Lazio e il Commando Ultrà Curva Sud della Roma (1977).
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