Supporters
The majority of the rivalry is seen between the supporters groups of D.C. United and Red Bull New York. United is supported by La Barra Brava, the Screaming Eagles and La Norte, while the Red Bulls are supported by Empire Supporters Club, Garden State Ultras and the Viking Army.
Due to the proximity of the Washington and New York metropolises, away supporters travel in the hundreds to near thousands to each club's respective venue. During the 2011 season, away totals nearly doubled the given allocation of away fan tickets for MLS matches, which is 500 seats.
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Famous quotes containing the word supporters:
“No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters. For his supporters will push him to disaster unless his opponents show him where the dangers are. So if he is wise he will often pray to be delivered from his friends, because they will ruin him. But though it hurts, he ought also to pray never to be left without opponents; for they keep him on the path of reason and good sense.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“His [O.J. Simpson’s] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those people see the photographs of the crime scene and the great blackening pools of blood seeping into the sidewalk? Did battered women watch all this on television and realize more vividly than ever before that their lives were cheap and their pain inconsequential?”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)