Led by a double-decker bus, marching Dutch fans painted Leipzig orange before their Euro 2024 game v France.
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00:00It's a little country, but we're strong. We're lions.
00:08The colour orange, really the orange colour as a group is so special to see. It's amazing.
00:14It's one big orange family.
00:16Without the marsh, there's no game.
00:19It started, I think, end of 2003 when some crazy orange fans had an idea.
00:30They thought how nice would it be to come to a tournament with a double-decker bus.
00:36For 20 years we've been travelling to all the matches, to the tournaments.
00:40This bus has been to Qatar, to South Africa, to Brazil. It has been everywhere.
00:44The bus is the leader.
00:46It's starting a party. There is no beginning, no end. And the bus is just leading us.
00:51Bicycles would also be nice. That's also a symbol for us, but we cannot bring our bicycles to Leipzig.
00:57Every Euro game, World Cup game, there is a marsh. Every important game we do this.
01:03So if we don't do this, come on, the pre-party has to be full on.
01:08It doesn't matter the weather. It's just about being together, celebrating.
01:12And it's going crazy. The game still needs to start and we are already in chaos.
01:17In the end it is about the match, but why can't we make it a great experience as well?
01:22You've seen the images. Every tournament, the images go all over the world.
01:26Every town wants the orange fans because it's so crazy and fantastic.
01:31Making history every time, every marsh. That's incredible.
01:35When we say we're following the national team, we're just all there.
01:39It doesn't matter which club, if you're in favour of Ajax or Feyenoord or PSV.
01:43It doesn't matter. Here we're all together and we're all orange fans.
01:46It creates a great atmosphere, but also it's like families with children.
01:50That's the great thing about it.
01:52And Dutch like a party. That's true as well.
01:55It's about having a good time, a few drinks and just being together.
01:59For us it's a holiday, you know.
02:01We have that adrenaline, the feeling and we go crazy.
02:04We come with so many people to the cities and we make one big party.
02:09Being away from home, please don't take me home.