Best Football fans on EURO 2008

[HeroOfTheStreet]

60 000 Croatia Fans in Wien :cool:

http://i47.servimg.com/u/f47/11/77/59/02/00670010.jpg (http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=58&u=11775902)

[|--LdC--|]

The Portuguese...but i am bias... :)

Well i don´t know if there is any nation in this Euro filling the stadiums were they do simple warm ups, today again all the 12 000 of the Neuchatel stadium filled with supporters who paid 10 euro only to see the players running and doing a bunch of exercises and outside the stadium thousands partying.

[GrosMoulin]

Police Arrest 100 German Soccer Hooligans in Austria


Police on Sunday arrested 100 German hooligans in Klagenfurt, Austria for provoking Polish fans with Nazi-like slogans during Germany's European Championship match against Poland.


The two sets of fans had arrived in Klagenfurt to watch the Euro 2008 Group B game between Germany and Poland in the city's fan zone.
A police spokesperson told German news agency DPA that a group of 60 Germans started chanting right-wing slogans at a group of Polish fans, saying things such as "all Poles should wear a yellow star" -- an allusion to the yellow stars Jews were forced to wear in Nazi Germany.
The Germans were then surrounded and arrested.
Shortly after the match started, another group of 40 German hooligans attempted to provoke the Polish fans again. They too were arrested.
Police said the hooligans would be charge with causing a nuisance and deported.
The Austrian Press Agency reported that several German and Polish fans had also engaged in physical clashes in the fan zone after Germany took a 1-0 lead. Germany won the game 2-0.
On Saturday, police arrested 17 people, but nine of these had been released on Sunday.


DW World


What a shame

[grodada]

The Portuguese...but i am bias... :)

Well i don´t know if there is any nation in this Euro filling the stadiums were they do simple warm ups, today again all the 12 000 of the Neuchatel stadium filled with supporters who paid 10 euro only to see the players running and doing a bunch of exercises and outside the stadium thousands partying.

sounds like they're doing a "brazil 2006" to me :o

[TariboWest33]

Croatian fans are really fast :cool:
Austria vs Croatia match

http://www.net.hr/2008/06/08/0181007.28.jpg

[HeroOfTheStreet]

Austrians gets beaten :cool:

http://www.krone.tv/krone/S160/object_id__103474/kmwebtv/index.html

[Rainer24]

Turkish fans are rabid (In a generally good way). I would have voted for them in the pole if I thought a bit more before clicking.

They'll show much better if their team plays well in the next match. They didn't have much to cheer about in the opener.

[TariboWest33]

http://www.becomeacroatiafan.com/

Welcome! England are OUT! Croatia are IN! The European Championships have kicked off - DO YOU HAVE A TEAM TO SUPPORT? Croatia are now one of the favourites, having beaten England twice in qualifying and there are LOTS of GREAT REASONS to support them this summer. So whether a Croatia fan OR a disgruntled England supporter looking to follow Slaven Bilic's men at Euro 2008, you’ll find everything you need to follow the 'Vatreni' here

[Cris 09]

The German fans on Bigsoccer all flying united under the same crest of the "Burnt Chicken".

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/9130/eagleoq7.jpg

[AFCA]

Wait til tomorrow, when us Dutchies will be sexing ourselves up with the crest of the Comatose Cock (as in rooster, as in the French one)

[Tetsuo]

after the matches against France or Italy, romanians clearly became contenders to the best supporters title. i didn't heard the 20000 french or 20000 italians. our fans clearly dominated and they were very loud. maybe we are not the best but at least in group c there is no contest. to do what our fans did even in clear numerical inferiority is just awesome :D Hai Romania!

[Boloni86]

Yeah I think Romania's been among the best ... not in numbers necessarily but very easily outsinging the French and Italians.

[Borussia]

Agree.

[whatareyoulookingat]

Yep the Romanians have suprised me. I like the displays the Russians have done.

[HakanGS]

You must be watching only Portugal's games :-)...many respects to Portugese fans, though...
No one can beat the reception that the thousands of portuguese immigrants gave to their nt in Switzerland, NO ONE!

[Chess_Panther]

You must be watching only Portugal's games :-)...many respects to Portugese fans, though...

Well, I certainly still believer we're kind of underrated, not the best ones out there...but certainly underrated.

[Crop Circles Maria]

after the matches against France or Italy, romanians clearly became contenders to the best supporters title. i didn't heard the 20000 french or 20000 italians. our fans clearly dominated and they were very loud. maybe we are not the best but at least in group c there is no contest. to do what our fans did even in clear numerical inferiority is just awesome :D Hai Romania!

I went to Rom-Ita and I couldnt agree with you more

[Awareness]

Home supporters going Dutch

http://www.euro2008.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Photo/competitions/EURO/72/07/90/720790_w2.jpg

For the first time at a UEFA European Championship the knockout stage will begin without a host nation involved. With the exception of Belgium in 2000 every country staging the event has reached at least the last four, keeping home hopes alive deep into the tournament.

Sale signs
As the quarter-finals approach at UEFA EURO 2008™, however, Austria and Switzerland are already out of the competition, leaving football fans here divided as to who they want to win. In Basel, Switzerland merchandise is already being discounted in the shops as Portugal and Germany come to town, while in Vienna though the Ernst-Happel-Stadion will remain awash with red and white for Saturday's second quarter-final, it will be Croatia and Turkey fans wearing the shirts.

Oranje support
The Swiss may be famed for their neutrality but a fair proportion have now switched allegiance to the Netherlands – 22 per cent according to a poll in three Swiss newspapers, which has Portugal in second on 15 per cent. In the French-speaking part of the country where the majority of the 174,000-strong Portuguese community lives, Luiz Felipe Scolari's side are supported by 24 per cent of the 500 people polled, with the Netherlands in second on 16 per cent. While roughly a third of the Swiss-Italians polled want Italy to win, just under one in ten Swiss-French are supporting France, with eight per cent of Swiss-Germans backing Joachim Löw's side.

Dutch on top
Austria, meanwhile, is united in its wish to see rivals Germany knocked out at the first opportunity. Twenty-four per cent of people polled by Ö3 radio station are pinning their hopes on Portugal, though the Netherlands come out on top with 36 per cent. Fans in both countries have clearly warmed to the free-flowing attacking football played by Marco van Basten's side, whose supporters have turned Berne and now Zurich orange on matchdays.

'Super football'
Of course, every fan has their own reason for picking a side. Aline from Froch, near Basel, will be supporting Portugal against Germany because she believes they "have the most handsome men in their team", while Karl from St Gallen favours the Netherlands because "they have the best fans by far". Marie-José, another Switzerland supporter, will also now be cheering on Portugal "because they play super football".

http://www.euro2008.uefa.com/news/kind=1/newsid=721686.html

[Awareness]

Spot of luck for Dutch supporters

http://www.euro2008.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Photo/competitions/EURO/72/14/67/721467_w2.jpg

Three wins, nine goals, tens of thousands of partying fans. The Netherlands bade farewell to Berne's Stade de Suisse last night and took the centre spot with them.

Victories
As top seeds in Group C, Marco van Basten's men were able to play all three group games in the Swiss federal capital and they made it a home from home. Their orange-clad supporters, in particular, proved a hit both inside the stadium – as the team defeated Italy 3-0, France 4-1 and Romania 2-0 – and outside, where as many as 150,000 fans, more than the regular population of Berne, flocked to follow the action on big screens.

Souvenir
The Netherlands now travel to Basel for Saturday's quarter-final against Sweden or Russia – though not before taking a small corner of Berne with them. The Oranje supporters' club secured a souvenir of the Stade de Suisse, with chairman Lloyd Vandenberg explaining: "The people of Berne wanted to thank us, so the centre spot has been removed from the stadium and put in a glass case. A very nice memento. It is from there that the Oranje scored all their goals."

Training
The players, meanwhile, are looking forward to the weekend even though they will only know their opponents after Sweden play Russia in Innsbruck tonight. At their Lausanne Stade Olympique de la Pontaise base, the starting XI against Romania last night did running and stretching exercises, while the others, including most of the usual lineup, played a small practice match. Defender Khalid Boulahrouz, one of just two players to have started all three Netherlands games in Berne alongside midfielder Orlando Engelaar, left earlier than the rest by car. According to the Royal Netherlands Football Association, this was because of "family circumstances".

http://www.euro2008.uefa.com/news/kind=1/newsid=721686.html

[Prawn Sandwich]

Where did you find that info?