In La Spezia, after hours of fireworks, singing and dancing in an area of the historic center historically frequented by the Arab community, the Moroccan fans, with brooms and bags, collected bottles and paper, used fireworks and cleaned the fountain in the center of the square, as shown in a video posted by City of La Spezia. An attitude that reminded many of the Japanese fans, who usually clean the stands where they watched matches before leaving the stadium. The videos, which testify to civic sense, ended up on the net being shared thousands of times.
Same situation in Genoa. “For us, cleaning is not an exceptional thing. We do it all the time because it is our culture. And then, it was our duty to take away our waste”, he commented Rashid Khayof the coordination of the migrant associations of Genoa, al 19th century.
Morocco fans were also photographed cleaning the stands. Following the exhortations of a blogger and “content creator”, Saad Abid, and of his Bahri association-they have in fact taken to cleaning the stands thoroughly before leaving the stadium where they cheered. “I bought 180 waste bags, we divided them in the stadium according to everyone’s tickets and the gesture of cleaning went viral. I posted a video after the first match against Croatia and it was relaunched a lot, many TVs interviewed us in the world, in 12 years of volunteering no one has ever talked about our cleaning operations. This gives courage and energy,” said Saad.
