About marketing sports fans and fanatics I spoke very briefly in this article . Browsing the Internet I found the next article Hoinaru . Thus, I realized I had to make a classification of types of fans.

A fanatic is an enthusiast without rational reason.

The literature identifies several psychologists in terms of fans.

Team member - many fanatics to identify so well with the game and the team that feel they are part of it. This phenomenon manifests itself in different ways:

• Identify successes and failures but the team. Example: "I can not believe I missed", "I'm glad I won" - the phenomenon was studied again in 1976 and in English is called BIRGing (or Basking in Reflected Glory). Idivizilor the tendency to attribute success and others as they have.
• At the other pole that was CORFing site (cutting off Reflected Failure) - people trying to distance themselves as much as possible the failures of others. Studies have shown that people identify moments of glory with a team or remove as much as possible of failure to maintain a certain self-esteem.

Fanatics "team member" always identify both success and failure but favorite team.

Many fanatics go through different stages when watching a match "tight" and the final charge states similar to the players:

• fatigue, both physical and mental but
• when watching the game losing touch with reality and are not aware of anything
• extreme anger when the team lost / wrong, etc.
• ecstasy in moments in which team wins / register, etc.
• extreme emotions before and during the match
• feeling of exhaustion when the competition ends

In short, for many fanatics, point of reference in terms of emotional and physical responses are very similar to those of athletes who actually are involved directly in competition.

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