National teams break force us to stay without Parma matches but for some fan around the world it can represent the chance to watch live one of our Parma players.
So it happened for a big group of Parmagiani Indonesia fans that had the chance to meet more than one time Alessandro Circati at the Australia training center during last week. Circati, in Jakarta for qualification match Indonesia vs Australia, signed jerseys, kindly posed for pictures and received many gift from some member of the well known Indonesian Parma fans group.
Following the line traced by the interview to our Honk Kong member Keung (full article here), lately Parma Calcio paid attention to other fans from outside Italy.
Nathan – founder of Parma Club London – and John – admin of SoloParma accounts and vicepresident of ParmaFansWorldwide Fans Club – are two great supporters that follow the team as often as they can.
We are very happy and proud that the Club highlighted their stories and we are even more happy that started to give voice to those Parma Family members living abroad.
Parma Fans Worldwide is a world-spread network for every Crusader fan running since almost six years. During this amount of time we had the chance to meet hundreds Parma fans from, literally, all around the world.
Five years ago, after a Genoa vs Parma match that he attended, we met Wing Yin Kenneth Keung, an Hong Kong supporter in love with our Club and Alessandro Lucarelli history. We left with the promise to meet again in Tardini soon. Due to Covid, that “soon” became “a five-years period” but in this amount of time he had the initiative to create and run an Official Hong Kong and Macao Parma fans club, gather other fans which whom he organizes meeting to watch games, friendly football match, jersey’s collectors gathering, helping us translating our website in his language.
We are very proud then that the Club decided to give him – as a representative of Hong Kong fans – a recognition for his passion the first time he came to Tardini, for the match against Como last week. Thanks to Giuseppe Squarcia, Luca Martines and the Social Media Team for this.
Keung and fans like him deserve all this.
During his visit, Keung had the chance to attend the match in Curva Nord, to visit Centro Coordinamento to renew the Hong Kong membership, to interview Fondazione Matteo Bagnaresi Onlus representative to discover their activities, to try tipical food and restaurants in town and province, to shopping in Tardini Store, to quickly attend a training and meet the players. All this this thanks to incredible welcoming attitude of Parma Family. Come back soon, Keung!
“Anolini in brodo* during an away match travel: DONE Travelling with Centro Coordinamento for an away match is also this kind of events. Sociality (and “Parmesanety”) at its best. Official fans Club members can travel with CCPC with special discount. Want to become a member? Contact us!
*”Anolini in brodo” is one of the most tipical and most identitarian Parmesan dishes. (Pics by Marco Bergamaschi)
We can be in serie A, B, C or D, we can be in a bad period, in a strange season, whatever, but we always find the way to lead in this kind of ventures.
Parma Calcio – in the person of Giuseppe Squarcia, Parma Calcio Supporters Liaision Officer and Football Social Responsability – and Centro Coordinamento Parma Clubs will bring 30 fans with disabilities in the away stand in Ferrara. This is an experimental trial for a more inclusive stadium experience.
It can seem a really small thing but it is not. If accessing the home matches for disabled fans is becoming easier years by years, away matches have a sort of filter for them, represented by the travel, the access to the stand, the helper and the infrastructures.
With the availability by Spal, Coordinamento and Parma Calcio will give the chance to 30 fans from Cooperativa I Girasoli and Fiorente and from Paralympic Parma team to take part to this stadium experience.
After “Parma for Specials” and “Always with Blue”, anther great venture by the Club on the social side. We are really proud of this.
Every Parma fan that goes to the stadium surely knows that in Hungary there is a strong community of Gialloblù supporters. Their banner is often shown on the stands around Italy or during summer trainings. The foundations, many years ago (2004!), of a well organized fans club – affiliated to Centro Coordinamento Parma Clubs – is the proof of a long time love story.
Recently they founded a five-a-side football team with whom they will proudly bring the name of Parma around Hungary.
This is not the only link between Parma Calcio and Hungary: a sharing of experiences is being opened by the Club and top level Kiraly Gabor Football Academy. A young representative of Hungarian top level academy is now in Parma to take part to Copa Crozada and in the beginning of June our under 11 will take part to an international tournament in Szombathely (Hungary).
All this thanks to the passion of our worldwide Family.
The second edition of Copa Crozada starts today in Parma, with the participation of over 700 young players from all the italian and abroad affiliated clubs. 60 teams from Italy, Germany, Malta, Mexico and Hungary will take part to this big event dedicated to younger players (from beginners to under 11).
A great project realized by Parma Academy to enforce the community feeling and enlarge the Parma Family.
Last month, Centro Coordinamento Parma Clubs confirmed their well known public service role by donating a medical car and a lot of medical equipment to the local Hospital first assistance service.
This important donation was possible thanks to Parma Calcio and all the fans part of CCPC and all the volunteers that works, for free, for Centro Coordinamento.