Let's remember the most bright and devoted football fans.

Among the multimillion army of football fans there are people who are recognized at first sight in every corner of the globe. Moreover, if their favorite team plays, they are always present at the stadium - for dozens of years.

Manolo El Bombo Manuel Caceres Artesero, better known in the world as Manolo El Bombo or Manolo Drummer - perhaps the most recognizable admirer of the Spanish national team. His huge drum, in which he pounded without stopping, black beret and a red T-shirt "Furies Rochi" with the 12th number can be seen almost at any match of the Spanish national team. If he is not there, then Manolo has serious health problems (although somehow he was brought to the stadium in an ambulance car directly from the hospital, and he got into the arena not with his own movement, but on a gurney).

Since 1979, Manolo has visited not only all the matches of the national team in Spain, but has also followed her around the world. At the moment, on his account, there are already ten mundials, which he visited personally (since 1982). It's clear that such a load can not withstand any drum, so Manolo changes it every two years - after the finals of the world championships and Europe. Do not withstand such a rhythm of life is not only the drums - once, tired of Manolo's voyages, his wife and children left him, and now, as the Drummer himself admitted, he has only one love left - football.

Used tools (at least some of them) Manolo keeps in his own bar in Valencia. There were attempts to get hold of the acting drum: at the beginning of the 21st century, the instrument was stolen in Bosnia, but a nearby police squad stopped the robbers and returned the drum to the owner. And a year ago he was stolen from the car of Manolo in Murcia. To the search operation, besides the police, the sailors of the Royal Navy of Spain joined, and in the end the drum was returned to the owner.

Unlike the national team, Manolo is not a single-player on the club level. At first he was in pain for Huesca, then for Zaragoza, and now for 35 years his heart has been given to Valencia.

Gaucho da Copa Clovis Fernandez was one of the most famous fans of the Brazilian national team. He started his "career" as a fan in 1970, having visited since then seven world championships, six Copa Americas tournaments, four Confederations Cups and one Olympics. Gaucho visited 60 countries of the world and attended more than one and a half hundred matches of "ball wizards".

Madly popular in his homeland, the whole world Fernandez became famous during the semifinals of the 2014 World Cup, in which Germany defeated the hosts of the tournament with a score of 7: 1. Photo of the mustachioed uncle, hugging a copy of the World Cup, watering her with tears, probably saw everyone who followed the football battles in Brazil. After the match, Clovis gave this very copy to one of the fans of the German national team with the words: "You deserve".

In September 2015, Gaucho da Copa died of cancer ... Orange General A year later passed away another bright representative of the fan movement - the famous Orange General. Winfried Vities went to the airport, intending to support the Dutch athletes at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro ... The general did not miss the matches of his native Ajax and the Netherlands since 1974, but his "title" was received only in 2003, when after leaving for Minsk he brought the local Formal officer's cap and led her into the "orange mood". Since that moment in the stadium, he invariably appeared in orange "uniform" and cap, snow-white shirt and bow tie in the colors of the Dutch flag. They say that in 2007, that same cap was stolen, but already at the next match, the General was again in full form.

Experiencing difficulties with business, Vitjes was unable to purchase tickets to Brazil for the final World Cup tournament in 2014, but an urgently organized PR campaign quickly allowed to collect the necessary amount for the symbol of the Dutch fans.

After the duel for the third place in which Brazil was defeated, Dutch national captain Robin van Persie presented Winfried with his bandage and a bronze medal, thanking him for supporting the national team.

Paramon Sergei Zaborovsky, he is also Paramon - one of the most (if not the most) famous fans of Ukraine. For the first time he visited the Dynamo match on October 4, 1967, when the Kievites in 1/16 of the Champions Cup took Celtic, and already from the beginning of the 70s he tried not to miss any football, hockey or basketball match in Kiev, be it matches of club teams or national teams.

The fans of the hockey Falcon dedicated a speech to Paramon: "If Paramon is with us - there will be a Falcon champion". And the Dynamo did it with its talisman. In a specially sewn Dynamo uniform with the inscription SUPERFAN, Paramon had the opportunity to be in the Dynamo matches directly at the edge of the field or on the bench. Usually he took a seat outside the opponent's goal and, by his own admission, prayed that the goalkeeper missed a blow from someone from Kiev. Since March 1998, Dynamo has regularly taken Paramon for visiting matches of European competition.

At the same time, the respect shown to the humble janitor of the Kiev airport Zhuliany and the fan with half a century of experience, many amazed. Valery Lobanovsky always addressed to him by name and patronymic - Sergey Anatolyevich, and Andriy Shevchenko was the first to give a hand at the meeting.

However, in April 2011 the idyll ended. After the Europa League match against Braga (1: 1), Paramon ran to one of the referees and gave him a kick at the soft spot. Since then, he still visits the matches of his favorite team, but is on the podium, and in the playing area for him the move is closed.

"Will come ambitious doubles" Of course, this is not a complete list of the most dedicated and extravagant fans.

Almost every club, and even more so the national team, has its own legendary "superfans".

It's enough to see how furiously and ingeniously the teams support their fans to make sure that for some of them football is everything.

And, perhaps, very soon there will be new names that will become new "style icons" of fan movement.

Yes, in fact, they have already appeared, but have not yet become known on a global scale. So a little wait.

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