How do fans living in the same city with multiple football clubs like Manchester, London, Milan, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Rome, Glasgow, Lisbon, Turin, Istanbul, Athens, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Mexico City choose and follow a club?
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If it is because of the family following the club earlier can someone elaborate on it and their life experience. What can be other reasons for it? Can someone specify some locations in these type of cities where people come together, for example bars, where people watch a match and come together forming a public realm.
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Answer:
There's usually more to club support than just location. For example, Roma and Lazio have traditionally appealed to different ends of the political spectrum. Both clubs even play in the same stadium but Lazio Ultras have become known for a racist, pro-fascist stance since the '80s. The management even fielded teams without black players until after the '90s http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2001/09/mussolinis_team.html Meanwhile Roma have had a long tradition of centre-left support and had star players such as the Brazilians Aldair and Cafu during the same era. For better or for worse, political affiliation was (and might still be) a factor in deciding club support in many large cities. Even more extreme, in Glasgow, Rangers and Celtic fans have been divided on sectarian lines for decades. Protestants traditionally support Rangers and Catholics support Celtic. Sir Alex Ferguson's biography even goes into detail about how he was never given another shot at the first team when playing for Rangers after his wife's Catholicism became open knowledge to the powers that be and fans. Supporting a football club is often decided by the very same political, religious, class and cultural divides that make urban life full of potential schisms. Your club can simply become an extension of your identity in ways that trump simple geographic affiliation.
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Other answers
Usually the closest club to them or the one their Dad supports.
Steve Black
They usually choose the club their parents support, or sometimes their friends.
Anonymous
People born in Turin And with parents from Turin use to cheer for Torino Fc, people from South of Italy or from abroad fight for Juventus. Best
Gianluca Finazzi
In South America parents will always have a huge influence over their kids when picking one club to support. But if the kid does have a personality and chooses to support another team, the area where he/she lives will definitely be a factor of choice,as the identification with his/her neighborhood grows , the passion for the club will equally grow too. The place where you're born may also be an influential factor take the city of Rio de Janeiro as an example. Nearly 80% of people from the favelas are Flamengo's supporters,whenever Flamengo reach the final match of any competition, the criminality rate in Rio decreases substantially. But if you're a highborn from the Zona Sul , Leblon, Ipanema or copacabana you'll probably support Fluminense.
Pedro Julio
Talking about Serie A rivalries, which I know better: I think nowadays the main factors are 1) Which club one's dad roots for 2)Which club is bigger or have the cooler players during one's childhood years. The family factor may have been influenced during the past decades by social, political or geographical factors. That kind of factors are now way weaker than in the past. That's how it worked for me: my father came to Milan from South Italy in the '70s. He already was an AC Milan fan since he fell in love with Nordahl and then Rivera as a kid. So I grew up a Milan fan and my faith was strenghtened by 90's AC Milan dominance and by the presence of great players like Van Basten, Gullit, Baresi, Maldini, Weah... There is an exception for every rule: I know guys that decided to root for one of the two teams just to piss off their parents or brothers that was fan of the other team... Until the 60s or 70s of last century, AC Milan fans were called Casciavit ("screwdrivers" in milanese dialect) by their rivals, and Inter Milan fan were called Bauscia ("boasters"). That's because Milan fans were often from the working class, and a good amount of them were imigrants from South Italy. Inter Milan, vice versa, were mostly from the entrepreneur class, and a lot of them were from the rich north province of Milan. Hence, decades ago AC Milan fan were more left-wing oriented and Inter Milan were more right-wing oriented. Now everything is blurred, so family and sport factors are way more relevant. However, in the recent years in which Silvio Berlusconi was both AC Milan owner and the most influential politician in Italy, some people might have begun or stopped rooting for AC Milan depending on their love or hatred for Berlusconi. Some historical, geographical and political factors in other Serie A rivalries: - In Rome, AS Roma is mainly considered the working class club, beloved by the most part of roman citizens, while Lazio is more popular in the wealthiest neighbourhoods and in smaller cities that surrounds Rome. Some of these cities, like Latina, were founded by Mussolini himself, explaining in some measure why a right-wing component is still strong among the Lazio fanbase. - Juventus, thanks to its winning history, gathers a lot of fans from all parts of Italy. The Agnelli family, who owns the club, also owns FIAT group: Juve was then very popular among imigrants that came in the city to work in FIAT factories. Families living in Turin for many generations usually prefer FC Torino. - Sampdoria, one of the two Genova's clubs, is very popular in the crowded area of Sampierdarena, since the club was founded there and part of its name comes from a former club from the neighbourhood. I think that's a similarity with cities like London or Buenos Aires, where a lot of clubs represent a precise part of the city. The same could be said for Rayo Vallecano, the third club from Madrid that represents Vallecas city area. - One of the youngest rivalries in Serie A is the one from the city of Verona: Hellas Verona is the historical club and has the biggest fanbase in the city. Most of them are strongly right-wing oriented. Since the beginning of the new century, Chievo Verona rose to Serie A, thanks to smart management by entrepreneur Luca Campedelli . Most of its fan are from Verona's small suburb Chievo. That's why Hellas fans claims they are the only righteous football team in the city.
Alfonso Mastrantonio
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