“Football tourism” – for the true fans

“Football tourism” – for the true fans

What is the fastest way to be environment sports fans?

Of course, to attend away matches of the club. For a true fan it is the main indicator of the passion and devotion to the team. On home game come easily, fights with other fans is fun for everybody, besides not directly associated with the very football.

But leaving the match, particularly the international serious it is. In a stormy sea of fans of another club, its players is very important to hear words of support from those for whom they play. Going for the away match, a football fan for a day or two throws everything for their favorite team, spend money on travel and hotel. Finally, he is not frightened by difficulties, and they are missing from the task to get tickets for the game to run-ins with rival fans.

The types of football tourism

Each person traveling on the match of your favorite team, their interests and capabilities, and because the trip can be divided into three broad categories.

1. Tour-entertainment
   In any new city there is always something to see, and since you’re here, sin not to use it. Rent a room in a nice hotel for a few days, visit local attractions, museums, wander the streets and sample the specialities of local cuisine.
   In this case, visiting the actual match is just one of the points of the program, albeit the most important one. A good option for wealthy fans who are not used to save.
2. Club exit
   Sometimes the club will organize a trip of their fans. Orders the Charter flight (this is especially important when direct flights to the desired city), hotel accommodation, buses to the stadium and back, tickets. Win, and the team and the fans. Because they do not need to organize themselves, to seek in a strange city and foreign country. However, the time on trips there, the return flight on the same day, but it’s just a game.
   The club thus moving closer with their fans, plus I am sure that they will get to the stadium and not get stuck in a story. Overall, a good, and at the same time, quite a budget option.
3. Leaving without training
   Sometimes the decision to go to match the accepted spontaneously. There’s an open window in the work schedule, given a premium that made the trip possible, etc. Or people just do not have the Finance to the proposals of the tour operators, but desperately wants to go to the game. And therefore hopes to get to places, choosing the cheapest options, which may include even hitchhiking.

And sent without a clear route and a ticket to the stadium, and problems are solved as they arise. This trip turns into a quest with unpredictable ending. Difficulties arise in everything from obtaining a visa and crossing the border and even before getting to the stadium. Overnight stays where necessary, friction with the police, clashes with foreign fans.

But if you will overcome everything and will be on the guest platform in a crowd of other fans of the club, you will become not just his own, and a local legend. History of check out other fans will recount as a shining example of what a real football fan.

Pandemic restrictions

In General, the guest team is a way to support their entertainment, tourism, call, but, unfortunately, the pandemic has deprived us of that. In many countries the games are held without spectators or with a lot of restrictions on them. And the fans in stadiums are not allowed to do. Less transfers within or between countries, there is less risk of the spread of coronavirus.

Rules changed daily, and thinking about the trip, it is necessary to watch the situation on the ground. Every country decides for itself what measures to introduce in Russia are all also at the mercy of the regions. Depending on the epidemiological situation, local authorities can put on the stadium, a limited number of people, and close to a full quarantine.