Top Brazilian football club Fluminense’ players and supporters are inspired by Taliban style photos.
The club has has requested its supporters and players to pose as Taliban fighters and post the photos online.
The club sources say that the entire story started a few weeks ago when the club faced a defeat in a match for the South American Copa Libertadores.
The players and supporters felt so much humiliated that they decided to invent a tactic to show their warrior spirit to the world.
In that effort they launched an initiative on Twitter and soon several players, including Brazilian international strike Fred, started posting photos with their faces partially covered by scarves with the club’s colours.
It needs to be mentioned here that Fluminense are the current Brazilian champions,who are known by their fans as “a team of warriors”So they thought this tactic can go with their brand image but later the club said: “The intentions of those who began this movement and have joined it clash with the Taliban’s image, who are terrorists and not healthy warriors.
That is why Fluminense Football Club denounces this campaign.”The club described the “Be a Taliban warrior” campaign as a “call for violence”.
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