Pakistan Liverpool fans community came into existence
in 2010 with a Facebook page which later turned to be an official Pakistan's branch of Liverpool. Thanks to the hard work of the Founders Nausherwan Effandi and
Raheel Ahmed who have been showing their passion and love for this club Liverpool.
It started from a Facebook page where they can
interact with each other. Currently on Facebook more than 5000 people are fans
of PakReds.
PakReds started gathering LFC supporters to watch LFC
play together by arranging screening in various different countries and at
various locations.
PakReds co-founder Raheel Ahmed said, “We set up a
page for Liverpool fans of Pakistan, and slowly we grew from just a page to
become the face of Liverpool in the country.”
In 2011, they officially started with the name of PakReds, afterwards they promoted in schools and colleges so that they can gather
all the Liverpool fans together like a family. In the same year, Liverpool
local newspaper Liverpool-echo published an article on PakReds, which was a
wonderful achievement.
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They are not just a community, they started playing
football, training young players with the name of PakReds at an Anfield themed
ground in the city of Lahore so that they can gain more popularity.
Last year in February, Liverpool launched a Twitter
account for Pakistani supporters. Later next day, Liverpool officially
announced that PakReds is now officially Pakistan’s Liverpool fan club and they
also got listed in the Pakistan Chamber of Commerce as a sports society.
LFC fans in Pakistan started contacting them when they
got to know that they are the official member of Liverpool.
Raheel said that “After having so much response we
started PakReds membership for 1000 rupees per annum.”
They have 135 registered members currently.
He said when asked about the future, “We want to bring
the Liverpool culture to Pakistan, We want to do community-building projects
here, in line with what Liverpool are famous for.”
Last year in December they successfully held an event
which was for the children from Korangi and Mauripur who were given the
knowledge and education related to this big club Liverpool.
Their goal is to make this Pakistan’s most supported
club.
“PakReds is not only the name of a community it’s a family.”
Long live PakReds, Long live Liverpool.
For more detailed article visit Dawn.
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