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BOBOTOH IN THE NORTH STAND NOISIEST SE ASIA | HERE IT IS NORTHENWALL FLOWER CITY CASUAL PLACE
Persib Bandung successfully secured victory in Week 8 of BRI League 1 2022/2023. Playing in front of his supporters, Persib defeated RANS Nusantara FC with a score of 2-1 at Gelora Bandung Lautan Api Stadium, Bandung, Sunday (4/9/2022) afternoon WIB.
and this is my story when I watched the match live in the east stands with friends from flower city casual.
Let's Get To Know Flower City Casual, Bobotoh Persib Bandung In Different Styles
Bobotoh or Persib Bandung supporters are not all identical with the blue shirt. There is a Flower City Casual (FCC) group that has a liquid membership, also does not require its members to wear shirts or frills related to Persib.
The story of the founding of this group was conveyed by one of its leaders, Rizki Ardi Maulana, 36 years old. He got inspired after watching a movie called Green Street Hooligans (2005) made by director Lexi Alexander.
"One of the references is the Green Street Hooligans film, then we find out other sources until we finally make it Casual," Rizki told Tempo, in Bandung, Friday, March 2, 2018.
In 2005, Rizki and 11 colleagues decided to establish FCC in Bandung. However, later the name FCC is better known as Casual only.
Unlike the Viking supporters group Persib Club (VPC) or Bobotoh Maung Barsatu (Bomber) which requires its official members with a membership card. The FCC is reluctant to take the formal path of the organization where it affixes some kind of identification card to its members. "We deliberately do not make id cards, if you want to join, just join," he said.
FCC characteristics are quite thick with the styles of football supporters in mainland England. Not wearing shirts or frills associated with Persib became the main marker for this group of supporters.
Rizki said the adaptation of style affairs to support football teams was a form of subculture of football supporters in England in the period from the 1970s to the early 1980s. Casual is thick with the style of dress wearing jackets and shoes from famous brands such as Adidas, Lacosta, Kappa, Burberry, and others.
According to Rizky, the initial phase of the FCC formed did present something different when supporting the Maung Bandung squad to the stadium. However, over time and Bobotoh who participated with the increasingly mushrooming Casual, walhasil fashion affairs sometimes not become the main benchmark of this Casual group.
Rizky's colleague who is also the founder of FCC, Arlan Siddha, admitted that mixing cultures is something that is inevitable, not least in Casual football in the country-especially in Bandung.
Casual became known precisely in 2010 ago. At that time, Arlan and other Casual colleagues have begun to dare to appear and seek existence among Bobotoh when supporting the Persib match directly at the stadium. "Finally another Bobotoh so look and want to come," he said.
In addition to dressing in a casual style, another identity that FCC has is to make songs of encouragement (chants) in English style. These Chants also distinguish the group that used to fill the north stand of the stadium with other groups of supporters.
"We love you 3x and where you play we follow we follow we follow coz we support for persib for persib for persib and that's the way we like it .. wooo ooo ooo ooo wooo ooo ooo."
Fragments of Casual song lyrics above often add to the atmosphere in the stadium increasingly uproar. In addition to being a differentiator, lyrics using English wrapped in tones of the adoption of European folk culture are considered more able to provide encouragement for players on the green field. "The atmosphere feels more fierce too," he said.
Since its establishment until now the FCC has given birth to 3 generations. If the initial generation only contains dozens of people, the current generation of Casual already has a period of up to thousands of members. "Because it is not recorded, the most Casual number is now 3/4 of the north stand," he said.
In addition to meeting at the stadium, Casual also often holds meetings every month. Discussions ranging from talking about football, music to buying and selling forums were presented at the meeting table.
Especially when going away, they usually hold meetings to discuss technical problems. How to anticipate ticket or safety problems when traveling to the opponent's headquarters.
Casual so far has given its own color to the supporters of Persib supporters, along with Viking and Bomber. They support their favorite team in different styles.
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