Siareiras Galegos is a group of fans of the Galician national football team, born in middle 1990s.

History

Their official start was on December 2005 with the resurrection of the Galician football team after 69 years of prohibition. It was a match against Uruguay and it ended as a complete success. Siareiras Galegas prepared a great manifestation to claim the officiality of Galicia, supported by at least 2,000 people all around the streets of A Coruña

A Coruña

A Coruña or La Coruña is a city and municipality of Galicia, Spain. It is the second-largest city in the autonomous community and seventeenth overall in the country...

. This became some kind of tradition, and every year the collective prepares manifestations in every match of the Galician national team. It is conformed by hundreds of supporters, and participates actively in political movements sometimes.

Performance

Their football songs usually have a strong political charge, as they are officially galician nationalists

Galician nationalism

Galician nationalism is a political movement arguing for the recognition of Galicia as a nation. The political movement referred to as modern Galician nationalism was born at the beginning of the twentieth century from the idea of Galicianism.- Ideology :...

. Galician bagpipes

Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a class of musical instrument, aerophones, using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. Though the Scottish Great Highland Bagpipe and Irish uilleann pipes have the greatest international visibility, bagpipes of many different types come from...

 and percussion usually go with them, as they show flags of Galicia, flags of the Kingdom of Galicia

Kingdom of Galicia

The Kingdom of Galicia was a political entity located in southwestern Europe, which at its territorial zenith occupied the entire northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Founded by Suebic king Hermeric in the year 409, the Galician capital was established in Braga, being the first kingdom which...

 and coats of the Galician kings. They have taken to the stadiums flags of the Celtic nations

Celtic nations

The Celtic nations are territories in North-West Europe in which that area's own Celtic languages and some cultural traits have survived.The term "nation" is used in its original sense to mean a people who share a common traditional identity and culture and are identified with a traditional...

 or simply Scottish

Flag of Scotland

The Flag of Scotland, , also known as Saint Andrew's Cross or the Saltire, is the national flag of Scotland. As the national flag it is the Saltire, rather than the Royal Standard of Scotland, which is the correct flag for all individuals and corporate bodies to fly in order to demonstrate both...

 and Irish

Flag of Ireland

The national flag of Ireland is a vertical tricolour of green , white, and orange. It is also known as the Irish tricolour. The flag proportion is 1:2...

flags, considering these as friendly countries.

External links

• Official website (in Galician)