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tifo

[tee-foh]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Chiefly Soccer.

a coordinated display, including large banners, flags, and sometimes signs or cards, executed cooperatively or performed in unison by the most fervent supporters and ultra fans in the stadium.
an element or elements of a coordinated display by fans in a stadium, especially a large banner raised by ropes and pulleys or spread over the people seated in the supporter section.
Fans spent weeks hand-painting the canvas of the giant tifo, a 100-foot-long, 60-foot-tall mural they unfurled behind the goal just moments before the start of the game.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of tifo¹

First recorded in 2000–05; from Italian; literally “typhus (fever),” hence, “fevered, impassioned support”

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Following their Champions League final win over Inter Milan the Paris St-Germain fans unveil a tifo paying tribute to manager Luis Enrique's daughter Xana, who passed away at the age of nine.

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As they have done throughout this Champions League campaign, PSG's "Ultras" unfurled a giant tifo with a message for the players they hoped would finally put them at the pinnacle of European football.

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"Beaten By The Waves, Paris Never Sunk" read the tifo stretching along one end of Virage Auteuil before they beat Manchester City, while "55 years of memory behind you to write history" was the message before Arsenal were beaten in the semi-final second leg in Paris.

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A tifo in the stands and a short message during the trophy ceremony the only farewell gestures towards the evening's captain, who scored the last of his 256 goals for the club early in the match.

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Wiggins, then 32, glided to London 2012 glory under a constantly moving tifo of union flags and Olympic rings.

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