Matheus Vianna from Arsenal Brasil blogs on the Chelsea game, organising a supporters club in such a vast country and why it’s good to talk… about the Gunners
"Every year on the weekend of the first game of the season we organise a national meeting in Sao Paulo"
Our supporters club has grown immensely in the last year or so. We were already the first English supporters club in Latin America and we believe we are still far ahead of many others. We managed to also form smaller, decentralised groups in several Brazilian cities, Arsenal America style, to engage a bigger fanbase into meeting for games.
We have more than 10,000 followers on Twitter and just over 8,000 on Facebook. It's not a whole lot comparing to a few other clubs but our fanbase is very active and almost every post or tweet is widely debated. We have a very engaged group and we think that's way more important than a hoard of fans that couldn't care less about the club they claim to support.
Every year on the weekend of the first game of the season we organise a national meeting in Sao Paulo with a football tournament on one day and watching the Arsenal match on the other. Puma gave us a hand last time around and that really gave it extra flair. When we get together for the big games we adapt some famous Brazilian chants - such as one about Sanogo being better then Eto'o - but in general we just sing the same ones that are sung by the supporters at the games.
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