I ask because this looks like the headdresses of Native Americans and I couldn’t find anything that looked like this searching for Portuguese headdresses.

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  3. I know him personally. No, it is not something “Portuguese” but he has for ages wore those kind of things to the games to stand out in the crowd; and he does indeed as it is rare TV doesn’t show him and him travelling to every single national team game also helps.

  4. That guy is impersonating the american native vibe while wearing the portuguese flag colors. It comes from the old western movies the older generations would watch for the action and the epic theme, without being aware of the magnitude of the genocide that occurred durig that era of american history.

  5. Watching many of the matches I remember seeing at least a fan per match appear on camera with that Indian tribe headdress. So there’s some movement about it. Also fans dressed with national shirts that don’t even look being born in that country they are dressed in.
    My guess is Qatar are paying some fake fans to make the stadiums look more crowded and with more supporters for each country than being actual nationals.

  9. Yes. Legend says D Afonso Henriques was wearing a crown of feathers when he beat his mother’s ass (Teresinha) back in the 12th century

  10. Ah. Perdoem-me estar nesse sub que não me corresponde, mas sou nativo brasileiro (vulgo índio).
    Não me incomodo de usarem cocar porque se banalizou, mas é estranho tentar associá-lo com Portugal.

  11. Yes. It dates back all the way to pre-christian iberia.
    Natives used to wear this in hope of attracting chickens, so they could then kill them and eat them with spices from east Africa and India . Thus Nando’s was born.

  19. He’s a biker, retired, that follows the National Team since at least 2008, probably even longer. Used to go with a friend, also in a costume, in some whacky wheels and with funny costumes in patriotic colors to every major event, everyone in the Portuguese Federation and many players know him by now.

    The native American feathers was one of the silly stuff he used to wear, but it seems now he has a genuine adoration for them and their cultures. He still loves bikes and rock-and-roll more though.

  21. Eu mal vi isto pensei logo, se os idiotas do twitter vêm isto começam logo com “cultural appropriation” e blábláblá.

  22. It is not and it doesn’t matter because we’re not pussies like you in the U.S.

    He wears it cause it’s fucking cool and it looks cool.

  23. Ofc not many people know but templar knights when they were dissolved by pope clement V went down from Tomar to the south of Portugal, more precisely to the bairro dos índios at Olhão.

    There are studies that some got in to big boats passing through Açores and finally arriving into Canada where they settle in Oak island.

    After that they went down to the actual America and that’s why the natives have that feathered heads.

  25. As someone pointed out, it’s likely a pass to a known social housing project in Olhao called “Bairro dos Indios” or neighbourhood of the Indians. Called so because of the difficulties in the 80s 90s and 2000s to educate and “civilize” the local kids- they just embraced the name. The bikers in the Algarve promote and donate to the local communities so may be connected in this way.

    [Bairro dos Indios Olhao Graffiti](https://unautreolhao.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/bairro_dos_indios_dedicated_store_lisboa4.jpg)

    It also draws a lot of attention as we here proof.

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