Cheering of Soccer

This blog’s theme is “Japanese sports and fan support”. Although I have told you to the cheering of Japanese baseball as a concrete example, I don’t tell you to the cheering of whole Japanese sports yet. We must consider the various cheering style of Japanese sports―no, we should do that. This time I want to tell you about the cheering of soccer. Let’s think about the difference of cheering style of a baseball and soccer.

The cheering certainly exists, if a spectator exists. Then, it is a problem how cheering culture is developed. The cheering of each sport completes original cheering culture by development of each cheering culture. The feature of cheering culture finds out the feature of these sports. Although it seems that I say repeatedly, since the cheering culture is established, watching sport games is familiar for people. The cheering is bipolarized in the style which always sends encouragement, and the style which sends encouragement at the key point. The cheering of soccer is the former style. The cheering of soccer resembles the cheering of baseball in respect of cheering using a thing. The cheering of soccer is using the towel to the cheering of baseball using musical instruments. The reason which came to use a towel for cheering is like the cheering team of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows having come to use an umbrella for cheering. These common features are using familiar things for people for cheering. The regulation was applied to the thing which can be carried in a stadium under the influence of a hooligan in England in mid-1970. Incidentally, a hooligan is a spectator who is excited by the game of soccer, etc. too much and causes confused fight. The spectators who have been regulated about the thing which can be carried in a stadium came to cheering brandishing a muffler. And this spread all over the world gradually. Moreover, since people have put on the muffler only in winter, they came to use the towel which is unrelated to a season for cheering of soccer.

Now, cheering of soccer has had big influence on cheering of baseball. Also in it, the cheering team of the Chiba Lotte Marines is affected most. Since the cheering team of the Chiba Lotte Marines has as close a relation as the cheering team of the Kashiwa Raysol, both sides are going to develop the culture of aid. As you know, both the headquarters of the Chiba Lotte Marines and the Kashiwa Raysol exist in Chiba. It is that a mutual cheering teams become close is naturally.　It is a very good thing to obtain a good idea from the different world and to develop culture.

The following thing is being able to say every sport and is a thing which I would also like to emphasize any number of times. While the culture of cheering develops, the cheering which meets various spectators' needs and a spectator's manners become a problem. I am looking forward to about how cheering culture will often develop from now on.