“Believe, Leeds!- Outrageous Leeds United helps maintain religion with Plan A to keep Manchester City, Verdict of Graham Smyth
Leeds United 1 Manchester City 1: Graham Smyth’s players from the Elland Road epic
Leeds United has one of the most passionate and unwavering fan bases in world football.
No matter how far you are or where you are, you’re never far from the crest of a club, a sautomobilef, a car sticker or even a friendly greeting, such is the outing.
It is a football club that has tested the center of its help in the ups and downs on and off the pitch of recent history.
The from afar, as well as the city of Leeds, have remained faithful and unwavering in their loyalty to the team that runs their industry in Beeston.
In yorkshire Evening Post’s We All Love Leeds series, we take a look at those teams of fans from all over the world.
We take a look at his love of Leeds United and what makes the club so special from all corners of the world.
This week we are for Giovanni, who is a member of the Brazilian fan base and Leeds United BR.
First of all, can you introduce us? Tell us a little about who you are and where you come from. . .
I am Giovanni, I am 27 years old, I was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the glorious city.
I am a journalist and painted to coordinate the video production of one of the most important newspapers in Brazil, O Globo. My first club is Flamengo, the current champion of Brazil and Liberators, but I feel that this fan is shared with Leeds United today.
Why are you a Leeds United fan?
I can’t give an explanation of why I’ve become a leeds fan. These things just don’t have a rational explanation. They’re just.
I didn’t have a video console when I was a kid in the late 1990s, so every time I played PES with friends, I used a Leeds United without a license.
I don’t forget that the coat of arms caught my eye, but I was just a kid at the time and I had no wisdom of clubs, leagues and things like that, I only cared about the fact that Flamengo and Brazil won the games they played on television.
But my love of football in general has only grown, and years later I sought to know how the world’s leagues worked, the history of clubs, the old players. I discovered a DVD of the Leeds about the most productive purposes of the Premier League. It was a hasselbaink purpose that ignited a spark in my mind, bringing all this club I only knew through games.
I continued to study LUFC, I realized that I was no longer the most productive club in England and that I had just re-finished third. It’s not as simple as today to get the latest news about the club, and I didn’t. I don’t speak fluent English either, so I kept checking scores every week. It was about two years when I discovered a Brazilian community.
It was just a page about the history of the club and some games, with one or two Englishmen living in Brazil, but during the time I joined, other new guys did too and we started to make the band more active.
So me and four other guys would also be making news in Portuguese at Leeds, then we created Leeds United BR around 2008-09.
We started an online page and the existing social networks didn’t appear until 2010, however until then we were chatting every single day, I say all this just to paint the image because that’s when I knew I was already a fan.
I spoke to friends at school, encouraged a third-tier club in English football, knew the full starting lineup of Rui Marques, Andy Robinson, Casper Ankergren and some promising players like Robert Snodgrass, Jonny Howson, Luciano Becchio, and they would avoid laughing at me.
I suppose I was attracted not only to the memories of the training years, but also to the brilliant history of luFC. Autumn is also a lovely story. I felt sympathy for outsiders.
The crowd shocked me and I’m more than proud to have followed Leeds from dark times to the Premier League.
What about supporting Leeds United?
Leeds is an exceptional club, made up of other people and excellent supporters. It has an excellent history, titles, honorable players. Everything makes Leeds special.
Being a part of it, even away and having seen only once a game on Elland Road, makes me proud every day.
The motto “the side before you, both once and twice” is anything that resonates perfectly with me: the feeling of being part of a team, of helping others, on and off the field, of fighting for anything with your friends. clubs have that power that I can place in Leeds United.
How did this happen?How many do you have?
We were looking to make Leeds known in Brazil, even though he was in the third tier of English football in 2008. After creating a community, we started to expand on social networks like Twitter, Facebook and our own website.
After the results, the applause of the matches, the translation of the data into Portuguese, other people began to stick to us and help Leeds United. We have 500 fans on Facebook.
On Twitter, we have over 3000 followers, but not just from Brazil. In The WhatsApp organization’s chat, nearly a hundred other people communicate about Leeds in Portuguese every day.
Unfortunately, we have not yet had the opportunity to bring the organization to life off the Internet. Brazil is as large as a continent, many enthusiasts are scattered, in Rio, in Sao Paulo, but also in the southern and northeastern states. .
An assembly would consist of only two, 3 people maximum. It hasn’t made sense so far, but maybe I can replace it now that more people are coming in.
Marcelo Bielsa — we about how he is perceived in BrazilArray. .
The world-famous rivalry between Brazil and Argentina does not influence the way Bielsa is perceived in Brazil, who is considered one of the great thinkers of football, and anyone who is seriously interested in football has the utmost respect. for him.
Have you ever visited Elland Road? If so, what’s the look of delight like?
Luckily I have! Only once, unfortunatelyArray . . It’s a long, engaging story. It started in 2012, when a guy I didn’t know at the time sent a direct message to the organization on Twitter.
I asked him if there was anyone from the organization in Rio because he was about to stop by and sought advice, maybe to meet a Leeds fan.
I told him I had to have and take an interest in putting him together, so when he came in in spite of everything, we met and controlled myself to go on a little outing to town, without delay we became smart friends and I also took him to a football game in Flamengo.
This made him propose the opposite scenario, inviting me to come to England, where he would take me to a Leeds game. It took me over a year, but I was able to come not only to see Leeds, but also to spend New Year’s Eve in 2014.
We went to see Leeds on January 1st. It wasn’t the most productive times in Leeds, as you know, and we lost to Blackburn 1-2 on a rainy, bloodless afternoon. Matt Smith scored for us. I need to get back to Elland Road now that Leeds is playing wonderful football.
How do you keep up with what’s going on with Leeds United?Were social media important?
Social media has been basic since we were our organization because they were born and raised on social media.
We first contacted journalists covering Leeds for BBC, Sky, YEP, of course, and independent media such as The Square Ball, as well as some key fans and other teams outside Leeds or England, such as Leeds United Americas.
This has helped us to be identified as a component of the online community. We also rely on the official website, game policy through the BBC and Sky Sports, as well as YEP research and exclusive articles about LUFC.
Today, social media is even more so because you don’t even want to search for information, it goes directly into your feed. This interaction is priceless. It also made the organization what it is today: without social media, we would never be known abroad.
What do you think of Leeds’ return to the Premier League?How do you think this will be the presence of Leeds United in Brazil?
I may not be more excited about that, just like our band’s enthusiasts. We’ve waited so long to be back in the Premier League and waiting even though it’s all over, and it was worth it, it may have been shorter.
The promotion had an immediate effect on Leeds United’s presence in Brazil. Not only have we been at the highlights of television and with a number of articles, many other people have contacted us to get to know Leeds better.
This allowed others to notice Leeds as a giant awakened from a deep sleep.
You have commented that you are looking for an official branch of supportersArray. Do you anticipate an increase in the number of employees?
Leeds is a club with history, titles, featured players, foreign presence and a sharp mind.
Being back in the First Division, with Bielsa as a manager, giving Liverpool unrest and scaring the big clubs, draws attention to Leeds.
This will not only happen in Brazil, the branches will feel the same impulse, being identified as an official branch would be an award and an honor for us, because we have had our ups and downs.
And it’s funny because now we’re on the team, which is not a full team of star players, but it’s a very competent team, very well run.
We cross the hardest of the seas in the middle of a hurricane, now that the waters are calm, the sun shines and navigation is easy, all in this boat!