The stadium: a society apart

The Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) AFP / Archives

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

2 min

For all sports fans, especially football fans, the stadium is a world apart where emotions, fan chants, flags, but also insults, racist or homophobic comments mingle. 

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The stadium does indeed seem to be governed by its own laws and folklore.

For more than a year, supporters have had to desert the stands, a consequence of the covid-19 pandemic and it is in almost empty enclosures that they find themselves on the occasion of the Euro football.

How to support your team in front of your screen or in stadiums with sparse public?

What has the pandemic changed in this stadium culture? 

With:

Olivier Pron

, journalist in the sports department of

RFI

Nicolas Hourcade

, sociologist at the

École Centrale de Lyon

, specialist in football supporters.

And a live update from

Antoine Grognet

, journalist in the sports service of RFI live from Munich on the first match of the Euro of the France team against Germany

Musical programming:

Crazy about football

- Africa Smile 

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Youssoupha

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