FootballSupporters.info offers support and fan services for travelling football fans.
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Over recent years, there has been a significant development in the provision of support and advice services for football fans from a number of European countries as they travel abroad following their team. Building on an initiative first undertaken by the Football Supporters’ Association among England fans at Italia ’90, there has been a parallel development in several countries of “Fans’ Embassy” services to travelling fans. In the course of these events, there have been a number of qualitative developments in the nature of service provided.
At Euro ’96 in England, for the first time a supporters’ organisation from the host nation provided a fans’ embassy service for visiting fans, involving multi-lingual guide material, goodwill events and close liaison with the agencies accompanying visiting fans. The World Cup in France in 1998 saw both the FSA and the German Fan Projekte organising mobile fans’ embassies accompanying the fans of their national sides through the tournament. Euro 2000 married together and built on both of these practices, by the establishment of fans’ embassy services in each of the host cities working in close co-ordination with mobile fans’ embassy or fan-coaching teams among the supporters of each competing country, pulled together primarily by the Dutch Eurosupport organisation.
In the course of these activities, and in particular at Euro 2000, groups from many countries were involved at least sporadically, which illustrates the potential for the development of this work. Nonetheless, there is a clear core group of organisations that have carried out this type of work on a consistent basis and with a large degree of international co-operation – the German Fan Projekte through KOS, Eurosupport with the Dutch fan projects, Progetto Ultra from Italy, and England’s FSA.
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