The Incredible True Story Behind The 'Lonely Fan' Viral Photograph
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2021
- Many people who are active online will be familiar with the 'lonely fan' meme that went viral in 2012, showing a sad looking FC Santa Cruz fan witnessing his team lose 4-1 to Gremio.
Eight years later, another image of this fan went viral side-by-side with the first photograph, showing him sat in the stands alongside a trophy, now serving as the club's president.
I decided I wanted to find out who was this man, this club, and what was the true story within Brazilian football that had created these two images - and that's exactly what I've done.
So in this short documentary, HITC Sevens tells the tale of FC Santa Cruz, Tiago Rech, and one of Brazil's greatest recent underdog stories. - กีฬา
I'm amazed I haven't seen this amazing video telling my own story. Sensational, HITC Sevens, for all the study, for having gone after the knowledge about football here, about my city, my club, I loved it so much! Thank you very much! Sensational!
Your story is extremely inspiring
congratulations
Nerd 🤓
While watching a meme:
Other football fans: It was funny
Alfie: *Detective mode on*
You have to commend this guy's work ethic
@@ofentseramoitheki8323 Absolutely. Dude works harder than Kante.
Fans and clubs like these please me a lot, for him his club isn't just something he enjoys watching it's an integral part of his life. Scenes like these are rare to come by.
It's just football
@@TrevorTyroneSSH You can literally put anything after "it's only..." to try to make it sound unimportant. It's only nuclear weapons, dude. It's only world peace. Etc
@@thsimpsonsguy Pretty sure your analogy sucks. One is life and death, and one is rooting for millionaires who could give two fucks about the fans
@@chance2413 “it’s just your opinion chance” and clearly millions of fans worldwide disagree
@@TrevorTyroneSSH gotta love how you go around every TH-cam video spamming “it’s just football” to be edgy and get views on your failed TH-cam channel . Keep trying bro, if you keep spamming like that you’ll eventually get 1000 views.
Love the fact that you separate both Santa Cruz
Shows that you really care about your content
Big Brazilian fan hahaha
The Judean People's front Vs The People's Front of Judea
Bom ver outro brasileiro por aqui hahahah
What's funny??
Alfie é um jornalista como poucos!
huehuehue
Teacher: I want a 10,000 word essay on my desk by the end of the day.
HITC sevens: Hold my apple!!
They've also just won the Gaucho 3 finals, which (im pretty sure) means they are promoted for next season.
They're going to the Promotion Division, it's a weird thing that exists on the Gaúcho Championship
@@brx8983 The "Promotion Division" (Divisão de Acesso in Portuguese), is just a name for the second tier.
Man this was really really informative, I had no idea there were so many level in Brazilian Football and also the geographic and historic info was perfect to go with it, shows how culture and heritage play a part in shaping a club no matter how big or small, been following this channel for many years now, absolutely love the amount of research you put into this, keep up the goodwork Alfie. 🤘❤️
Thanks Nihar, glad you enjoyed it & appreciate the support!
@@HITCSevens How about a video explaining the football structure in Brazil? I think that'd make another interesting video.
@@aasemahsan i want that too
@@aasemahsan as a Brazillian I'd love to see that from an outsider perspective
@@aasemahsan +1
I´m Brazilian and I live in Rio Grande do Sul, and honestly, this video is super complete. I already knew the story form Santa Cruz, and I can tell you, this video is by far the most complete I have ever seen, even better than videos in Portuguese (our home language). Congrats for the great job you did!
Thanks Douglas, that's very kind of you. Much appreciated!
This is an extremely so interesting story of a club's supporter who became a president of the club which he has been supporting ever since he was a child,good friends!!!:-D
You actually can get promoted from the lower regionals leagues to the Brasileirão.
The CBF organizes the Brasileirão from the first division to the fourth division but the way each team qualifies to the fourth division depends on their performance on their respective state championship (or by getting relegated in the Brasileirão série C)
to add to the beauty of it all: Santa Cruz won the Campeonato Gaúcho 3rd division last month, making it their second title in all of the clubs history.
As a Brazilian, I commend the host's attempt to read names in Portuguese!
Bring more Brazilian content, I love hearing your portuguese
Sabotage!!
@@alexisoriginal8102 só os penta
Day 3: I think you should do a "The rise and fall of Sheffield Wednesday". Obviously they used to be (and still are) a big club with a lot of problems. There's probably a few clubs you could do this with in League One also.
Would love to see this. Portsmouth, Nottingham Forest, and Sunderland would all be good fits for that kind of video too.
@@jono_high thank you. All great ideas from you too.
Spacestation!
@@heathpotts3767 yep. I'm a fan through the RLCS team.
They're not a big club, what makes them a big club? Handful of games in Europe since the 60s? 18k average attendance in the championship pre pandemic? They USED to be a slightly above average club many decades ago, probably most of the fans who followed them in their heyday are long since dead.
Amazing piece of journalism, congratulations Alfie!!! Being Brazilian, I'm always happy to see the football scene of my country being covered by such an amazing person, this channel always delivers, glad to be a huge fan.
This was an amazing video. When I saw the meme, I thought the ending would be that they were not the same dudes. It was wonderful when I realized that they were the same person.
I am so glad that you look beyond the one picture - your videos are amazing docs! I very much enjoyed this and I have never even seen the first photo mentioned. You do a great job Alfie!
This is awesome. This has touched my life more than the meme..
Thank you for this great work.
Brilliant video Alfie, thank you. Keep doing what you are doing, plenty of us appreciate it.
This is a fantastic documentary. Thank you Alfie!
The only thing missing is an Interview with the lad and tada you have a perfect piece of great journalism
This is becoming an interesting series, keep it up
Good job Alfie I enjoyed this show you can tell you do your homework on each and every show you do keep up the good work
They've just got a promotion to Gaucho second division. Great video with very good content about the Brazilian football pyramid! I'm from the state of Rio Grande do Sul and I knew about this beautiful history, almost like a football manager save. Great work!
Man, respects from Brazil. You're accurate!
I’m practically here for the documentary videos. I do like the top 7 videos but I find these and football history in general much more interesting.
Awesome video! Greetings from Brasil!! You should make one (or more) videos about the Club World Cup of 24 clubs that was proposed by FIFA, as well about the Intercontinental Cup that was played from 1960 to 2004!
Congratulations man, incredible research and a great video!
Great video mate, really great. Thank you so much!
Great work Alfie ,great story , well done .
Videos like this prove what we already know, best football channel on the platform.
Great video, love to see content about Brazil in your channel.
Thanks. I agree with you. I think this is the content you do best. More please
Another great vid Alfie, very insightful and informative as usual keep up the great work mate.
Love this vid and this level of detail, in other news your pronunciation is pretty much on point. Well done for everything here
Great informative video with great Brazilian gaucho history references. 👍
Alfie got into the rabbit hole of brazilian football folclore, i can guarante is gonna be a long journey. Fun fact, Santa Cruz do Sul has two clubs, not just Santa Cruz, but also their city rivals Avenida (literally means Avenue in english). Avenida have been more succesful in the recent years, yo-yoing between the first and second division of the Rio Grande do Sul State Championships (like West Brom in England), although they didn't won any trophy like Santa Cruz did.
i love your videos thanks for putting so luch time and effort into them every day !
Travesty that this video only has this many views you are an amazing creator so thorough
This is one of the most beautiful stories told in football. It's sharing these stories that made me make my own channel as well ⚽⚽⚽⚽
Love your channel dude
Just subbed great job my guy
@@moumenrezaei1330 cheers dude...thank you for the support
@@user-te1le7ck6b Thanks alot dude...really appreciate it. Hope you like the content :)
You know its a good one when you here the "sit back , relax.."
Poetry . LOVE your videos keep doing what you doing🤘🏽
My favourite channel these documentaries are class
I have always viewed Brazilian domestic football as a beloved enigma, thanks to the ramblings of Alfie it's more beloved but less of an enigma.
Another documentary i love you Alfie 🤩🤩
Another great video 🔥
That Zaire video was so good. Love your deep-dive videos.
Defo one of my favourite channels 👌 love thronged docu videos about obscure footballing trivia
Excellent work.
Amazing! Absolutely amazing!
Love this story. It's what the beautiful game is about, no matter where in the world you 'kick it'. ❤
Another class vid!
I love your videos about brazilian football, and you are pronouncing the names in portuguese very well ;)
As a Brazilian, I never knew Santa Cruz's nickname was Galo? In Brazil there is a MUCH bigger team that is known for Galo, which means rooster, and that's Atletico Mineiro. They play in the top league and somehow signed Diego Costa and Hulk XD
Great vid Alfie
What an amazing video!!!
This is such a great footballing story. It's a shame it's only got 69k views. We need to get more footballing fans to watch this.
i'd listen to alfie talk about obscure football facts from far flung countries for hours to be honest
... great work ...
Good find and unbiased reporting as always.
You should put a video on why Big teams are not signing their own homegrown talents or even building one.
Sterling work, Alfie. These videos are a welcome change from all the transfer and early season nonsense- still the cricket season!
Such a great story!! Hope he can take them all the way up to serie A! The dream job for a fan
Elucidating, and awesome. The Quirky is very much appreciated. -Big Fan, living in Texas
"So, sit back, relax and join me on journey to..." every time I hear this I get shivers down the spine.
Thanks once again for every single upload! Your work is much appreciated and the content is one of a kind! A true gem.
Great videos, sir. New subscriber now.
As a Rio Grande do Sul Citizen, must say I'm amazed by the accuracy of the facts! Keep up this great work
This is the most "Fine, I'll do it myself!" moment XD
Great story 👏🏿👌🏾 so fascinating 😊.
Really interesting and informative 👍
What a wonderful story! What a man! This needs to be made into a movie :)
Thank you Alfie
Great vid.
Fabulous, and very interesting video. Loved it. How about a Scunthorpe video.
Really flattered by all your South American content lately. Great context and accuracy!
If I may, try your hand at Club Athletico Paranaense, which hails from Curitiba and claims to be a "rebel" amongst the nation top teams in the Serie A.
Alfie, people just think that other people are stupid, it’s easier to be stupid, but people aren’t stupid, they’re more likely to be lazy when they’re chilling on tiktok in the middle of the night! Of course they’re not ready to hear rocket science then! You’re right to say that people can watch longer vids like this, and I’m thankful for your insightful channel!
I think people can appreciate longer form content while also acknowledging when something feels artificially elongated (through repetition/saying the same things in different ways or doing a 3-4 minute intro) for the benefit of ad-revenue.
I love your videos, much better then twitface soundbites so much respect for the time and effort you put into them.
Nice video dude
Excellent video
So "photo of fan turned chairman of lowly Brazilian 'non league' team, with long awaited knockout cup success" would've done Alf...
Just to Clarify a bit(i think)
the Brazilian League Pyramid is somewhat strange but it's basically this
Série A
Série B
Série C
each with 20 clubs, A & B follow a league format and C uses a group stage thingy i don't know the name in english
Série D
State Championship
the Série D is basically the entry point for the Brazilian League and every year it is composed from the 4 relegated teams from série C + the 4/3/2 best teams from every state championship first division/state cup(depends on the state) in the country that do not play in a national league(Série A, B and C teams)
They’ve done it now…. Back at the top, congrats to the lot of them
Great storytelling. Please keep it up 👍Wessex United ?
The way he says football in brasilian accent is so satisfying.😲
Interesting video. Never understood Brazil's league system. Still don't really know if I do, yet I feel smarter after watching this :D
What an extraordinary amount of intro.
His story feels like straight out of a movie. Amazing
This mans research sometimes is a little frightening
Video idea: ranking every team to ever be in the premier league based of the best season a individual has hade while playing for them in the premier league era
I've learned more about football from this one channel than watching the sport for 27 years I think.
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 167)
Also I don't care if you consider this spam. I'm doing this for too long, I'm not giving up now.
If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
Another day another like
Day 7:I think you should do a''The rise and fall of Sunderland FC:What went wrong''.From Premier League currently they are in League One(English Third Division)
2012:Santa Cruz fan
2020:Santa Cruz president with a trophy behind.What could have been
And arsenal fans still getting told to F-off by players and owners 🤣😂🤦♀️
Before Zealand's video, there is this one. And now FC Santa Cruz is back to the top state league again!
If Thomas Rongen got Michael Fassbender to play him in a Hollywood movie about American Samoa NT story, this story should be adapted into a film as well, with Paul Walter Hauser as Tiago Rech.
Alfie cud you do a sevens best players at or who competed in the Olympics?
Good story. 👍👍
He just playing football manager in hardcore mode using his favorite club.
Day 7: where would a team of Alfie Potts Harmer lookalikes finish in the premier league?
1st on good looks
Relegation zone for footballing ability
Damn Alfie, I always think how much you can achieve if you had the budget and a team to work with you.
Brazilian here, just wanted to say that your pronunciations are very good for a english speaker, believe me, there is alot of weird ones out there.
What happened to Panathinaikos?
Good stuff