Neesha, the cheerleader who performs weekly in front of 17,000 football fans - Londoner #61

• published: 15 Jan 2015
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Neesha has been a cheerleader with Crystal Palace since 2011. She performs weekly in front of 17,000 people. Neesha is extremely ambitious. She dances at various events like Twickenham and entered Miss England. 1000 LONDONERS This film is part of 1000 Londoners, a five-year digital project which aims to create a digital portrait of a city through 1000 of the people who identify themselves with it. The profile contains a 3 minute film that gives an insight into the life of the Londoner, as well as their personal photos of London and some answers to crucial questions about their views on London life. Over the course of the project we aim to reveal as many facets of the capital as possible, seeing city life from 1000 points of view. www.1000londoners.com www.youtube.com/1000londoners www.facebook.com/1000londoners Twitter: @1000_londoners 1000 Londoners is produced by South London based film production company and social enterprise, Chocolate Films. The filmmakers from Chocolate Films will be both producing the films and providing opportunities to young people and community groups to make their own short documentaries, which will contribute to the 1000 films. Visit www.chocolatefilms.com Transcript: So I've been a crystal for around three years now, and this is actually my forth kit- so 4 seasons. It's been part of me so we grow as a bond, we're a family, we just... we can talk to any of the girls about anything so it's just amazing, I love it. I'm pretty sure there's like stereotypes which are attached to cheerleading but as you've seen we're all approachable we'll all talk to you. I think a lot of fans are like really scared to talk to us sometimes but we're not scary at all, like if anything I'm probably scared of like anyone else. Outside of being a crystal I'm a manager at an after-school club. Entertaining crystal palace fans is somewhat similar to entertaining, you know, the kids where I work because you need bundles of energy and you just need that spirit about you so I think it's quite similar in a weird kind of way. We're there to cheer on the fans, we're there to cheer on the team, and we've all got that in our hearts. My favourite part of a day, a match day, is just going out and that atmosphere is crazy- I love it, because everyone's a family, everyone's together, everyone's one- and we all want the same thing so it's really good.