The first football fan in history lived in Montevideo in the early XX, worked in the National Football Club, the second old Uruguayan club.
saddler was by profession and was responsible for inflate (swell) the balls of Central Park, the headquarters of the National.
Miguel Prudencio Reyes was called, but was better known as "Fat Kings" or "the fan." Our man fan club supporter Montevideo, and their raucous cries: "National!" Were famous in the early last century in the fields where he played his club.
And it's easy to imagine how the cries resound saddler taking into account that ballooned the ball only with the strength of his lungs.
During games, Other fans often comment to the noisy demonstrations of Kings: "Look how the fan yells."
And gradually swells word went to apply to most National supporters shouted at parties, and later spread to others and, finally, to the supporters of all clubs.
The word spread to the rest of the world speaking with the Olympic Games in 1924 and 1928, when Uruguay won the football gold medals, and the 1930 World Cup in Montevideo.
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