The greenish white squad on the field unfortunately lost, but won Best squad Photo: Tim Gremalm.
Today’s guest blogger is Jens Henda, who loves football. He is 19 and one of the people involved with Flash Mob Göteborg, so doing unexpected things is something he likes even more than football. He gives us a little football fever before the dissolution of the men's Championship with this text.
I have always loved football, and been a frequent spectator at stands, but not everyone likes to watch sports. And of course, if you don’t like it then you don’t like it. But if you’ve never been part of a cheering crowd you’re missing out. The feeling is really lovely.
What do you do if you are not interested in football but still want to experience that feeling? Well then, cheer for a team that doesn’t normally have an audience. Gather enough people, at least somewhere around 30-50 in each crowd. Then pick out a good Little League game to watch, but don’t reveal which game you’re going to in advance so that the teams in question find out. If you have time and energy, design small flags, scarves and banners.
On match day you will meet somewhere in the vicinity of the field and split up so that you’re the same amount of people in each. Then it's just to march away. If you can, try to get there just when the match begins, the young children might be too scared to start the match otherwise. When the match is under way, they’ll just think it's fun with a big crowd cheering and screaming and applauding. After the match, it is fun to storm the field and cheer for the team as if they’ve just won a national championship, if they won or lost doesn’t matter. If you have any scarves or banners, you can leave them as souvenirs to the team, as a tribute to them. Then you leave the field, and probably leave them with a smile.
Last time I did this was last Thursday. F98 Härryda IF played against BK Azalea and I was the cheerleader for Härryda. I went all-in so we had banners, flags and confetti-cannons. Unfortunately HIF lost by 1-0, but we didn’t care. And I don’t think the girls cared if they won or lost, they were happy anyway!
Required time:
1 day or less
Cons:
Children may get nervous from the big crowd.
Pros:
Often children become very excited to have such a great cheerleaders, and you'll get to scream a bit.
