tifo

[Victor Steinbok]

http://goo.gl/s599j

> Similar showy moments are bursting out in a growing number of Major
> League Soccer stadiums in North America. Such spectacles, called
> /tifo/, are a bit of soccer culture imported from Europe and Latin
> America, in which hundreds of fans put on choreographed displays in
> the stands. In typical tifo, fans might unfurl massive banners, wave
> flags, throw confetti and sing lusty soccer songs.

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