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FC Copenhagen ban fans with 'foreign names' from Champions League games
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We'll be back. Brøndby are just in a lull.
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
In Scotland the first thing you do upon meeting someone is ask "Rangers or Celtic?"
And nane ae yer "Partick Thistle" pish. Am oan tae yoose.
Broder Salsa
Banned
They just have to confirm it verbally over the phone. Big fucking deal. They are having their tickets temporarily suspended (which means it's still reserved) and told they can buy a ticket for the away section instead if they support the other team. If not they can also just tell to the ticket company when they are called up that they are in fact Copenhagen supporters.
Barbacoatl
Banned
Now I'm aware of the existence of this football club. Thanks op.
While the club hasn't handled the problem in the most elegant way the fact remains that home and away supporters mustn't be placed together. While the club could deny away supporters access on match day that would surely cause chaos.
Most of the people whining on Facebook and in Danish media are Galatasaray supporters. And quite frankly, by playing the race card they are showing their bad intentions. This is a security issue and the concern goes both ways. Not all FCK supporters are angels.
Most of the people whining on Facebook and in Danish media are Galatasaray supporters. And quite frankly, by playing the race card they are showing their bad intentions. This is a security issue and the concern goes both ways. Not all FCK supporters are angels.
Alligatorjandro
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damn hooligans
Sickboy007
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Even if there was no ill intention, they deserve to be ridiculed and possibly sued or fined to hell and back. You can't discriminate or even "check" on the basis of family names, that's just fucking retarded.
gutter_trash
Banned
I say we should ban FC Copenhagen from the Champions League. How about that?
if they are too afriad of Real and Juvi fans, then they just give up
if they are too afriad of Real and Juvi fans, then they just give up
Read this post people.
Broder Salsa
Banned
Yeah good luck with that. It's Uefa that told us to tighten up the security with this in the first place.
Read my post explaining it. It's a very misinformed article and with some things, down right wrong.
bean breath
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Why do you have to give your name to buy tickets to a sporting event?
I guess I can understand if you're buying them online but what if you go to the box office and pay in cash?
You need to give your name, which team your a fan of (wtf?), and based on these factors are assigned only to a designated area of the stadium?
Wow.
I guess I can understand if you're buying them online but what if you go to the box office and pay in cash?
You need to give your name, which team your a fan of (wtf?), and based on these factors are assigned only to a designated area of the stadium?
Wow.
Canis lupus
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WTF? How will UEFA not ban this team from CL for racism?
Broder Salsa
Banned
Read the thread and you will see why. It's Uefa who told us to stricten it in the first place. UEFA doesn't ban because of trash journalism, GAF however does eat it up raw.
Broder Salsa
Banned
Uhm because of security? This thread is getting dumber and dumber by the minute. Have you ever seen hooligans or know anything about football history? This is Galatasarays hools http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dPJGlJbdao if you really need some video.
If we (as in Copenhagen supporters) wants to even go to a Copenhagen match away from our home stadium, we have to have a special "supporter card" that we need to scan in before the match and that needs to match our tickets, so people who are banned from going to games because of violence and such stays away...
Pretty sure the only way to buy the CL tickets is through the internet or through the phone anyway.
That you as a supporter of the away team can only be in one section is not just common, pretty sure the clubs are demanded to do that by law, as fights will otherwise happen like shown above all the time. It's common fucking sense not having the two opposition supporter groups mixed and done at every decently sized football match.
Jesus Christ @ having to seperate the fucking fans for fear of violence. Been to a lot of sports games in my life, never seen anything like that. Been just fine cheering for the Chiefs Royals and WhiteSox (back when I was in Chicago) without having to worry about opposing fans bashing me over the head, lol.
Not a good look for that sport at all.
Not a good look for that sport at all.
Broder Salsa
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People are very passionate about their sports in some countries, both for the better and many times the worse, not just football. For example, basketball in Greece : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcvAOpnnMK0
Good luck mixing the fans in such a place. It's support to the team and war against the other teams. Wouldn't want fans mixed anyway, would completely destroy the atmosphere at games.
gutter_trash
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Redskins fans vs Eagles fans
Broder Salsa
Banned
Because there's lots of Juve, Real and Gala fans in Denmark? Funnily enough quite a few of the people who are acting as victims of racism turns out to actually be supporting the other clubs, which is exactly the kind of people the club was hoping to catch.
Just a quick look on Copenhagens FB page and the people complaining shows stuff like that above. Next time at least remove it from your FB, fool.
questionmark
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I really don't get it. I can't imagine a Toronto resident, who's a fan of Montreal going to a Toronto game and getting into a fight in the stands. That's such a weird idea.
Even so, why would someone's name indicate what club they support? That's crazy. I wouldn't see a black dude, and be like, "well, I guess you like our basketball team more than our hockey team."
So they proceed to lump all those funny foreign names in the same bag including a guy with an Iranian name because that's basically the same as Turkey right.
Arjen
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Never heard of football hooligans? Shit can get ugly, and if away fans get in the wrong section it can get even worse.
I don't get hooligans. I know they exist, but it's baffling to me. Also, names wouldn't be half the indicator residence would if you want to go down that road.
Phoenician_Viking
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Brøndby>>>>>>>>>>>>FCK.
Broder Salsa
Banned
Except he could just call in and confirm he was a Copenhagen supporter. What he could also have done was buy his tickets before the draw... and not directly after, which is the only people who has been questioned based on name, not banned like the title of the thread says, it's basically a "Hey, you sure you don't want to go to the away section?".
Lord Ghirahim
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Disgusting.
While it's pretty normal to restrict away fans to the away section, the methods used by FCK are a bit weird to be quite honest. In Germany, if away fans are expected to buy tickets in other sections, you usually can only buy tickets if you have bought tickets before and/or you're living near the home team's city. Additionally, fans in away jerseys aren't let in in home sections. I've never heard of name-checking before.
But anyway, it's of course not racism what's happening here. That's only the case if you really want to misinterpret the situation.
RobotMafia
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SPORTS!!!!! Here in the US fights happen all the time in the stands at NFL games. People that worship sports tend to be assholes.
Broder Salsa
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Neither do I. Well I do get what some people get out of it, it's just something that they should keep far away from football. But I certainly get separating supporters of teams, not just for security measures. It's the you vs them mentality in football, especially when it comes to life long rival teams, you sing slanderous songs about their team and their supporters and you try and throw them off their game, football is all about feeling and I would never go to a football match where we had to sit still in our seats and eat corndogs.
Oh I don't disagree it's weird to no name checking and certainly not fool proof, but it's not the only thing done either. Of course the club won't allow people showing up in other jerseys in. There's lots of people living in Copenhagen supporting the other clubs though, that is the problem.
Problem was with the Stuttgart supporters last year that they weren't wearing any Stuttgart clothing or anything like that, which then makes it incredible hard to deny them access at the gates.
The chant certainly is if the translation is correct. Brilliant stage for a basketball match though and many of the actual players enjoys that kind of atmosphere. This is Dame N'Doye a year ago in Copenhagen, he got our ultras logo tattood on him.
and this is the ultras in question http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF1AbOW4PiI (also notice the small section all the supporters are on!
)Nothing on the level of the full blown riots like in Futbol.
I think maybe having the home/away sections in Futbol exacerbates the problems. In some sports, rivalries like NY Yankees vs. Boston Red Sox, the rivalries are so fierce that a visiting fan would (most of the time) not wear their team colours. And because all the opposing fans are scattered and fairly anonymous, they can't really get a riot going.
In North America, it's not uncommon to see fights between two supporters. Alcohol and tailgating culture probably have more to do with stand violence than what team you support.
gutter_trash
Banned
jokes on him when he gets traded
Broder Salsa
Banned
He did leave the club like half a year after, he went around and said goodbye to the supporters with tears in his eyes.
He's a legend at the club though and will always be loved, think all supporters understood that he wanted to make big time cash in Russia instead of playing for 1/5 of the wages in Copenhagen when he got a whole family to support in Senegal.
polyh3dron
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lol @ all the reactionary moral grandstanding posts from people that didnt read WoodenLung's post.
Football hooligans are a real problem, and so is a threat from the UEFA to ban your team if you don't do something about it.
Football hooligans are a real problem, and so is a threat from the UEFA to ban your team if you don't do something about it.
Parallax Scroll
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In American sports we don't seat the fans of different teams in different sections, because we're not savages.
vas_a_morir
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In college they do... although fans aren't restricted to those areas.
Just the student sections are restricted that way though. Any ticket sold through the ticket office is available to anyone who wants it.
Though for the big name high profile programs, a lot of the prime seats are claimed by season ticket holders who have to give quite sizable donations to even be able to get tickets, which makes it less feasible for a bunch of opposing fans to get tickets.
Senor Kami
Banned
I gotta agree. Condemning every foreigner on the planet because a different foreigner did something bad 13 years ago totally isn't discrimination.
Atraveller
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That's racist!
Seriously though, this is the stupidest thing I've heard all year, even more stupid than MS fucking up Xbone.
TheOohChild
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well looking at their draw, I would think if your name is Alonzo DiVincenzo or Sergio Abreu, you're going to have a hard time getting tickets
Atraveller
Banned
Yeah, so banning people because their names sound foreign is a proper solution, right?
industrian
will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
That's just the thing. Do football hooligans from other nationalities not exist? You could easily have an Anglo, Danish or other "safe" name and be a Real, Juve or and Galatasaray fan.
Not to mention: what if a miracle happens and FC Copenhagen make it through to the next stage of the European Cup or fumble into the Europa League? Will they continue this "screening" for each round of the competition they make it to?
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