Ultras red guards united: hinchada organizada en el fútbol colombiano, escenario alternativo de apuesta política.

Abstract

This investigative work explores how a scenario of participation, action and political manifestation is configured in football through the inflated organizations (Ultras). The specific case of Ultras Red Guards United is taken. This organization generates an informal political participation through an anti-fascist position, in this measure, its process of participation in the politics of the city of Bogotá during 2015-2016 was analyzed, approaching its mechanisms, collective action, political agenda, forms of political demonstration and its advocacy spaces. The organized fans Ultras Red Guards United, affiliated to the bar Guard Albi-Roja Sur of Independiente Santa Fe, created in the year of 1997. The members of this fans are spectators to be mere spectators in favor of politicians from a practice antifascist and countercultural that they express in the stadium and outside of it, understanding football as a space where one can declare and manifest its political causes, and develop a participation by the participation of traditional participation mechanisms.