The story behind a gesticulate that wowed a world

• FC Copenhagen among 3 finalists for a FIFA Fan Award
• The Danish Cup prize was carried to a wheelchair-bound fan
• “It was a sign that it’s not only a noisiest fans who count”

In FC Copenhagen’s Fan Award story, there are dual heroes.

One is Jacob, a doctrinaire believer who follows a group by thick and thin, in all weathers, notwithstanding being cramped to a wheelchair. The other is Daniel, a male who, amid rough crater final celebrations, remembered this dedicated fan and ensured that he common in his team’s impulse of glory.

Not that it was clear, primarily during least, that such a touching gesticulate was holding place. “The humorous thing is that, if we listen to a Danish TV coverage, a commentators are totally confused,” explained Jes Mortensen, FC Copenhagen’s Head of Media. “The players had given a prize to a fans and a subsequent thing it looked like this large male with tattoos was using divided with it!”

Mortensen and his FCK colleagues did not share a commentators’ misgivings though. “We knew it was Daniel, a Supporters Liaison Officer, so we were flattering assured he wasn’t hidden a trophy. He’d have had a tough time explaining himself during work on a Monday morning if he had been!”

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The fact that a male obliged has an central duty during a bar raises a question: did FCK organize or authorize a uncover of inclusion that, within hours, was being watched around a world?

“Not during all,” responded Mortensen. “It was totally spontaneous. Although everybody during a bar desired it, all credit goes to Daniel and a fans here since it was all their doing. 

“Daniel knew that Jacob is a unequivocally dedicated and eager supporter, though that his incapacity means that he can't get tighten to a players in moments like these. So he remembered Jacob when a prize went into a fans and took it by a throng to him. He wanted him to suffer a impulse as most as everybody else.”

To contend he achieved that aim would be an understatement. Jacob Ove Larsen had always suspicion that zero could tip his favourite impulse as a Copenhagen fan: a club’s startle 1-0 UEFA Champions League win over Manchester United in 2006. Then again, he never approaching to be celebrating a 3-1 Danish Cup final win over FCK’s aged rivals Brondby by removing adult tighten and personal with a trophy.

“I started going to watch FCK when we was 10 years aged and we go to all their home games,” he told FIFA.com. “And right from a start, we was done to feel like one of a family.

“But we didn’t know Daniel all that well, so we was unequivocally astounded when he brought me a trophy. It unequivocally wasn’t something we had oral about before. When we hear a cheers building, we was indeed fasten in during that indicate – though we didn’t know what was going on until a prize seemed in front of me.

“Even afterwards, we don’t consider we unequivocally accepted accurately what had happened until someone tagged me in a video of a whole thing on Facebook. And once it started going viral, it was extraordinary – we began removing messages from people all over a world. Then, when we was during a final diversion of a season, we had fans interlude me saying, ‘Wow, there’s a legend!’ The whole thing has been amazing.”

The fact it has been recognized with a nomination FIFA Fan Award is, Mortensen and Larsen agree, “wonderful”. But some-more important, a former believes, is a wider summary it conveys about what FCK and football in ubiquitous should mount for.

“It comes behind to a mantra we use a lot during this club: everybody is acquire here,” he said. “We don’t caring who we opinion for, how we demeanour or who we nap with. As prolonged as we wish to support this group and do that in a right way, we’ll try to make we feel partial of a family. What happened here was a good instance that it’s not only a noisiest fans who count. It’s also a sign to all of us never to forget that.”

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