Torcida 1950 - Hajduk Split Ultras - Best moments

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Torcida Split is supporters group founded on 28 October 1950, it's known that they are oldest supporters group in Europe. Torcida Split : http://www.torcida.hr/ https://www.youtube.com/user/wwob1950 https://www.youtube.com/user/knTorcidaSplit Torcida Split is a HNK Hajduk Split supporters' group in Croatia and formerly Yugoslavia. Founded on 28 October 1950, it's supposed by Kruhatin-Ante Listopadac that they are oldest supporters group in Europe. They are one major football fan groups in Croatia and the largest in Southeast Europe. The name "Torcida" is the Brazilian Portuguese word for "supporters". Club fans operate from Zrinsko Frankopanska-17, Split. The slogan of the fans, "Hajduk lives forever", testifies to the long and continuing tradition of Hajduk Split, which has survived without change from its establishment until today. (While states and leagues have failed, "Hajduk lives forever"). The group as a whole traditionally maintains good relations with the Portuguese S.L. Benfica football club supporters No Name Boys. Torcida members and other fervent fans of the club gather in the north stand at the stadium of Poljud, from where they fiercely support their club. Torcida member often use flares, smoke flares and other pyrotechnics to heat up the atmosphere on the stadium. They are in very good terms with another ultra group from Dalmatia, Tornado Zadar. They are in good terms with the biggest ultra group of Portuguese club Benfica, No Name Boys (NN). It started during the Croatian war, when NN showed a message "Freedom for Croatia", and some time later, Benfica played in Croatia against Hajduk and in a bus accident, 3 members of NN lost their lives (including the leader of NN, Gullit). Then, in the return leg of the game, Torcida brought flowers to Benfica's stadium, in memory of those 3 members of NN. So it started a friendship between the two ultra groups. Furthermore, they shown their support to A.S. Saint-Etienne fans with a banner "Courage Magic Fans", after the French ultras saw their kop closed. Today, Hajduk's biggest rivals are Dinamo Zagreb, the matches between the two teams are referred to as "Eternal derby".Matches between Hajduk and Rijeka are referred to as the Adriatic derby. Former major rivalries used to include Serbian clubs Red Star Belgrade and Partizan who along with Hajduk and Dinamo were part of the so-called Yugoslav big four, the biggest and most successful clubs in the former Yugoslavia.