Lazaros Papoutzis studied in the Democritus University of Thrace from where he took his BA in Physical Education and Sports. His second BA was in Preschool Education, 2013. His master studies were at the University of Western Macedonia in Cultural Studies: Semiotic Structures and Practices on 2010 with a thesis entitled “Football and Youth Subcultures: The case of ARIS FC fans”. He also is a PhD Candidate in the School of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with a thesis entitled: “Semiotic readings of fan subculture. Study of fan practices of Thessalonikis’ football teams”. His research interests consist of: football fanship, culture, citizenship, identities, visual semiotics and socio-semiotics.