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Al Jazeera
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Andy Richardson

Meet the Wydad ultras, the Moroccan team’s ‘first player’

[File: Fadel Senna/AFP]

Casablanca, Morocco – In the old town of Casablanca, tags and murals reflecting football club Wydad AC’s past and present can be found everywhere.

The team’s die-hard fans are renowned as some of the most passionate and organised globally, famous for their “tifo”: choreographed displays of support involving huge banners and flags.

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