“KOP” is the part of the football stadium where a soccer club’s most fervent supporters gather. Thomas Porlon from @streetpress went to meet those radical groups around Europe to show how football and politics are intertwined across the continent, particularly within the far-right movement.
The second stop is Hungary, where the country’s infamous president Victor Orbàn built his own football academy in the hopes of becoming the “saviour of Hungarian football”, and changed laws to allow his favourite club to flourish.
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