Drughi

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Drughi is the name of an important ultra group in the context of the Italian football club Juventus Turin . The name comes from Anthony Burgess ' book Uhrwerk Orange (Original A Clockwork Orange ), in which Droogs (for "friends", from Russian "Друг") is the name of a gang .

The history of the origin of the name is a curiosity in itself: originally the group should be called Arancia meccanica (Italian for clockwork orange ). Under pressure from the authorities, who feared the violence-glorifying impression the name conveys, the name was eventually changed to Drughi . The founders' ulterior motives regarding the new name were recognized too late.

This grouping began in 1987, when differences within another Ultrà group led to the division. At the beginning of the 1990s, the small founding group developed into the largest organized following of Juventus with over 10,000 members at times, who claimed large parts of the south curve of the Stadio delle Alpi in Turin . They can currently also be found in the south curve of the Juventus Stadium .

Euphoric by the success of Juventus in 1997, the numerous larger and smaller Ultrà groups finally decided to join forces to form a large group, which meant the end of the Drughi as an independent group. The new Ultra group was henceforth called Black & White Fighters Gruppo Storico 1977 . This group, which operated an aggressive displacement policy, existed until February 20, 2005. Stadium bans and the imprisonment of the heads of that group finally led to the self-dissolution and the re-establishment of the Drughi .

The plans to build a new stadium, which is to have a significantly reduced capacity, are currently causing major differences between the club's management and Drughi.

There is an important offshoot of Drughi in Switzerland , Drughi Svizzera in Winterthur and Drughi Germania in Pforzheim .

Hatred of the English

Since the 1985 European Cup final between Juventus Turin and Liverpool , in which 32 Italian fans were killed and hundreds injured after attacks by English hooligans, the Drughi have been hating the English. All English people, regardless of their club membership, are attacked and in some cases physically attacked. The trigger for the disaster at the time was the attempt by English hooligans to storm the fan block of Italian supporters and the fact that the poor construction of the stadium increased the mass panic among Juventus fans and finally a boundary wall collapsed, which buried numerous Italian fans under itself.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In the book publication by Marcus Sommerey: The youth culture of the Ultras - On the emergence of a new generation of football fans (from page 53)
  2. ↑ DRUGHI GERMANIA - JUVENTUS CLUB. In: www.drughigermania.de. Retrieved January 11, 2017 .
  3. ^ Heysel tragedy: Europe's black football night. In: Spiegel Online . April 5, 2005, accessed June 10, 2018 .