Fans are often considered the twelfth man of a football team and the Blue Pilgrims, the dedicated fan club of the Indian football team, is set to take that tag up a notch when India takes on Kenya in Sunday's Intercontinental Cup final.
“We're doing something that has never been done in Indian football before. We're planning on presenting a 30 feet 3D tifo for the final,” one of the Blue Pilgrims, who has come to Mumbai all the way from Bengaluru, tells Sportstar .
The group is planning on hoisting the tifo bearing a tiger’s face when the Indian team walks onto the pitch prior to the start of the match. “We want to send out the message to the team that the fans are right behind them. We will always back them regardless where they play or how they play,” says another ‘pilgrim’, who’s an ardent East Bengal fan.
The Blue Pilgrims, which is an amalgamation of football fans from across cities and clubs, has been a major driving force in the Intercontinental Cup so far. They've turned up in huge numbers and with their Viking claps, player chants and renditions of ‘Vande Matram’, they’ve truly sparked life into the stadium and served as a massive source of motivation for the players.
They’ve also planned some special chants for the final and come Sunday, they’re going to play a very crucial role in spurring the team on against Kenya.
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