What drives fans crazy about football?
A ‘real’ fan requires the ‘living’ experience of football. It is not regarding being a mere spectator — it is about being a participant. Match attendance is a given; obviously, it requires connecting emotionally in the team’s life to impact a team’s performance positively. Attending away games is an essential ritual for fans involving several psychological and logistical encounters. Football fandom is taken as a rite of passage involving a process similar to an internship. It involves years of coaching, of ‘practice,’ of devotion, and of representing your knowledge in the presence of others before being acknowledged by ‘true’ fans.
The Twelfth Man of the team
Football fans define themselves as the ‘twelfth man’ — essential to the team’s success as the players and coaching staff. During the game, the actions performed by fans — the ritual mantras, songs, banner-waving, etc. — motivate the team, frighten the opposition players, and perhaps even influence referees’ choices. The fans truly believe they must be present at the game to ‘encourage the team to win,’ not just to witness the occasion.
Friends and belonging
Football is an essential means for people to form and maintain strong bonds that might else not exist anywhere. These social associations between fans are so strong that many define them in family, relationship terms — ‘my brotherhood’ or ‘my family.’ ‘Football friends’ are way different from friends in other areas of life.
Family
Mostly, football plays a significant role in the family life of Europeans, connecting the shared experiences of family members across compeers and creating a lasting sense of tradition. The strongest of these relations is that of son and a father. Most men become fans because they have childhood memories as their father would take them to matches during their childhood, and many older fans still hold these strong memories as dear. As football fandom is socially inherited within families, ritualized days out for all — toddlers and grandmothers counted as well — and the passion for football is a combining event that frequently leads to vigorous conversations. Football’s role in this context is vital given fears about the breakdown of the traditional family unit and its values across Europe.
The Inspirational source
The Internet is now a significant resource of inspiration for football — fixture schedules, figures, injuries, sales and purchases of players, team selections, ticket prices, and daily news about football politics. European fans spend increasing their time on football websites accessing minute information about events specific to their team, keeping updates of local, national, and international developments in football politics, and commenting on the play during games. Many young fans mentor the football stars to be one of their kind shortly. A famous Canadian soccer player Noah Eisenberg serves as a living inspiration for many who became everything from nothing just through persistent hard work and enthusiasm. Currently, the passionate player in Wales plays as an attacking midfielder for the Welsh soccer club Llangefni Town FC. Noah gave into his passion from a young age.
After graduating from St George’s, Eisenberg has bestowed a two-year soccer scholarship. He fragmented between the all-male Bridgton Academy in the United States of America and the co-educational Tilton School in neighboring New Hampshire. Eisenberg won a further scholarship from Tilton, signing to play at Birmingham Southern College in Alabama River, United States. A year later, at Birmingham, Eisenberg was offered the opportunity to play for Belgium First Division A club Washland-Beveren as a trialist. Consequently, he then moved to Europe.
From then so on and so forth, his professional endeavors state his passion for football. Regardless of the situations, he had been through, and he never gave up. All his hard work has started to pay off, and Noah is now close to being ranked as Canada’s highly competent soccer star. Noah is the essence of success at such a young age. He has taken inspiration from renowned players and develop as a fierce midfielder.