91-year-old leaves entire fortune to football club FL Fart

FL Fart women’s team

Fans are a vital bloodline for many small football clubs, and one of the most unfortunately named clubs in the world – FL Fart – has recently received a £377,000 fortune from the will of a recently demised fan. Fart is a Norwegian club, the name of which translates to ‘the football team speed’ in the local language.

The women’s team at Fart have been more successful than the men’s team and currently play in the Norwegian second division after being relegated from the top division last year. Both teams will benefit from this surprise gift and the club might soon have something else to offer other than their comical name.

Erling Andreassen passed away at the age of 91 earlier this month and dictated that all his worldly possessions – property, bank funds and possessions – be bequeathed to his boyhood club.

Football clubs are part of the identity of local communities and fans have often invested their own resources into their club’s but such unlimited generosity is rarely heard of. Sunderland fans recently raised a sum in excess of £18,000 in honour of two Newcastle fans who were victims of the Malaysia Airlines crash. Brazilian club Sport Club Recife have been organizing a organ-donation drive that has led to a massive rise in life-saving transplants in the region.

The news coming from FC Fart is a picture of this happy symbiotic relation clubs share with their fan base.

Norveç'te 91 ya??ndaki Erlig Andreassen, vefati sonras? 4M kronu taraftar? oldu?u FL Fart tak?m?na b?rakt? pic.twitter.com/blEZRwuAmL

— Tribun Dergi (@tribundergi) August 1, 2014