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Peruvians win FIFA's Best Fan Award

15:13 | London (UK), Sep. 24.

Peru's national team supporters have won the best fans category at the 2018 Best FIFA Football Awards.

The prize was handed over to 'La Blanquirroja' followers after revealing the winners of the online voting process.

As is known, more than 40,000 Peruvian soccer fans traveled to Russia for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. 

Despite the team's first two defeats in the mega event, the Inca country citizens' support for their national squad remained intact, both in the homeland and overseas.

Peruvians are regarded by many as the best fan group of the Russia World Cup tournament. 

Within this framework, renowned Spanish actor Antonio Banderas said the national squad had one of the best fan bases ever seen in the mega event. 

Japan and Senegal supporters —who cleaned up the stadiums after their teams' games— and Sebastian Carrera —a Chilean fan who had traveled 1,500 km to cheer on Puerto Montt— were the other nominees. 

Peruvian participation at World Cup


The national squad lost its first two matches against Denmark (0-1) and France (0-1), thus becoming the fourth team to depart from this event.

Nevertheless, it managed to claim three points by defeating Australian counterpart (2-0) in the last Group C game.


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Published: 9/24/2018