tifo

[ tee-foh ]

noun

, Chiefly Soccer.

1. 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.
2. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tifo¹

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

Example Sentences

Read this post about the 2014 home-opener tifo, and get inspired.

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