Frente Tricolor
The official Suwon Samsung Bluewings supporters group is called FRENTE TRICOLOR.
In the late 1995, the 'GRAND BLEU' was organised as the supporter club of the Bluewings. Originally, the name of the supporters club was 'CyberWings', but it changed its name to the current name a few years later. With their two general mottos, The First & The Best and 우리가 가면 길이 된다 (English: Our path becomes the true path), the GRAND BLEU has now grown as the largest and the most influential supporters' groups in the K-League. The FRENTE TRICOLOR website claims that there are more than 30,000 members who has been registered to the website by 2008, and about 3,000 to 6,000 supporters visit the Big Bird's North side regularly in almost every matches, with the exception of boycotts which only happened in early 2006. The GRAND BLEU sometimes show performances in matches using various equipments such as flares, smoke bombs, flags and card displays.
The famous Red Devils, Korea Republic national football team supporters club also started with a lot of its members from The GRAND BLEU. One of the most popular chants of the Red Devils, the "Daehanminkkuk" chant, was from the GRAND BLEU chant.
External links
- Suwon Bluewings Official Website
- (Korean) Suwon Bluewings Supporters Club 'GRAND BLEU' Official Website
- (Korean) GRAND BLEU twitter
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