What makes a derby a derby, is a great love for your club and hatred for the greatest rival, are the two most important reasons why the derby is special. In order for a football derby to be big, it is necessary to have an equal reputation for two clubs, a similar number of fans, an uncertain race in all competitions and naturally different colors of the club.
Football is itself a pure emotion, but there is a period when what we feel about the twenty-two men chasing the ball, can not be measured or compared with anything.
The mentioned period can often vary with intensity and length, from several days to several weeks but it is still easy to determine that the epicenter of "madness" stays somewhere between 90 and 120 minutes, excluding a potential penal series.Then everything that really matters and essentially becomes absolutely irrelevant, and your thoughts and all the types of energy you give are focused on just one thing. That your beloved team records victory over the biggest, eternal rival.
What is morally, becomes immoral - then the way and means are not chosen in order to reach the goal. Then it is only important that your team, after the last referee whistle, raise your arms above your head, while you are thrown in the trance and rejoice with the people you have seen for the first time in your life. The game that has the power to divide cities into half, the eternal rivalries that turn the brothers and great friends into the hot rivals, but at the same time they provide us with unique experience and luck, as well as valuable, unforgettable memories.
We only have few of these kind of games in the world, so I bring you next two for this fourth edition of Greatest Football Derbies in the World series :
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Lazio - Roma
When we were looking at the success of the two teams, they have a small number of titles combined, and never greater rivalry, it is a greater pleasure to win the rival than winning a trophy. One country, one city, one stadium is a Roman derby.
Violence in the streets ahead of the derby is inevitable. The fact that the first murder in the fan club in Italy happened exactly in Rome, and that is exactly in this derby, indicates that it is the biggest derby in Italy. There are frequent riots in the streets of Rome, arrests, attacks on players, fights everything in such a beautiful Italian city. Provocation at the stands is normal, Lazio fans are more extreme in that they serve racist insults at the expense of the players and the fans of the opposite club, the club's leadership always fences from such outbursts.
Roma were formed by the working class who were government opposition , while Lazio was formed by the middle class who were governmant supporters and one of the lovers of Lazio was Mussolini, and the salutation of Di Canio to the supporters of Lazio is also known.
In the mutual duels of the Roma, with 69 games won, Lazio won the rivals 52 times, and it was draw at 63 matches.
Francesco Totti is the player with the most played games and the most goals scored in the derby, played 44 matches and scored 11 goals.
Celtic - Glasgow Rangers
Scotland derby known as the "Old Firm" with the epicenter in Glasgow. The Rangers, a 146 year old club, founded in 1872, were founded by McNeil, Campbell and McBee, who played for this club and they are all of Scottish origin. Celtic was founded 15 years later, in 1887, it was founded by Brader Wolfgrid, a clergyman from Ireland.
This is a derby of two religions, on one side of the Protestant (Rangers), and on the other Catholics (Celtic), this is a derby of social differences between a city (conservatism against socialism), this is a derby of political differences (loyalists against Republicans), and perhaps the largest , national diversity where fans Rangers Scots, and fans of Celtic Irish-Scots.
It's the two biggest clubs in Scotland, the more successful Rangers, who won 54 of the Scottish Championship, while Celtic won 48 trophies. In the mutual duel, Rangers won 159 times, while Celtic was better at 151 games.
In Catholic schools, you will not find any Rangers fan.
This is the fourth article of Greatest Football Derbies in the World series. I'll bring you more of extreme worlds rivalries in upcoming articles. Hope that, this was interesting for you. Thanks for reading.
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