PHILADELPHIA — On Tomer Savoia’s left thigh, there are tattoos commemorating the five World Cup titles Brazil has won, the most of any nation.

Lower on his leg, there is room for more ink.

“I have left this space blank,” he told The Denver Gazette. “I am very optimistic.”

Savoia is a Brazilian superfan, and perhaps the most recognizable fan at the World Cup. Just ask him.

“I’m a little bit famous,” said Savoia, 41, from Rio de Janeiro. “I am the leader of the Brazilian fans. I became famous in Russia in 2018 (at the World Cup). I became famous at the last World Cup (in Qatar in 2022).”

Savoia has gained fame due to his long stringy hair dyed in the Brazil colors of green and yellow, his green and yellow hat with horns and his zany antics.

“He’s extremely famous in Brazil,” Lucas Varellos, a native of Rio de Janeiro who now lives in London, said after cheering on Brazil’s 3-0 win over Haiti in a Group C game last Friday at Philadelphia Stadium. “He got famous back in Russia with his reactions during a match. He’s very friendly and a really nice guy.”

Savoia is the leader of Movimento Verde Amarelo (MVA), which translates to the Green and Yellow Movement, a Brazil soccer fan club. He leads cheers during matches and is shown plenty on TV.

Chances are Savoia will be shown on the screen when Brazil plays its third game of the tournament Wednesday in Miami against Scotland. And he won’t shy away from giving interviews.

“He would like to think he is Brazil’s No. 1 fan,” said Samir Mendes de Mello, a freelance journalist from Brazil. “He talks a lot about himself. He promotes himself really well. But he does follow Brazil like everywhere.”

Interestingly, Savoia is a freelance journalist from a nation where the lines sometimes are blurred between cheering for the national team and covering it. There were some cheers in the press box when Brazil scored goals against Haiti, a practice frowned upon by American journalists.

During this World Cup, though, Savoia is concentrating on being a fan.

“At the World Cup in 2014, I became this crazy fan,” Savoia said of when the event was held in Brazil. “I go everywhere with the national team. I went to a friendly game in South Korea, a friendly game in Japan and one in Bolivia.”

Savoia, at his fourth straight World Cup, claims to have attended 1,421 overall soccer matches in his life.

With Savoia’s connections, he said he is paying a meager $60 apiece to attend Brazil’s matches at this World Cup. Down low in the stands, where he cheers on the green and yellow, other fans have spent thousands of dollars for a ticket.

But what would Savoia do to attend a Brazil game if he ever had a hard time getting a ticket?

“I have two kidneys, so if I need to sell one for tickets, I will,” he said.

Savoia talked about the passion of Brazilian soccer fans.

“We have a different energy (than other nations),” he said. “That happiness is contagious.”

Savoia is well known in Brazil for ribbing Argentina, which is the nation’s top rival and has won three World Cups, including the last one in 2022.

“He teases Argentina a lot,” said Mendes de Mello. “He sings songs praising Brazil and belittling Argentinian players and idols. For him, it’s all in good fun but I don’t know how the Argentinians feel.”

Before last Friday’s game, Savoia was regularly stopped in the parking lot by fans from different countries for photos, but none appeared to be from Argentina. Savoia waved above his head a replica of the FIFA World Cup Trophy, the one that has been awarded to winners since 1974.

That’s the trophy Brazil won in 1994, when the World Cup was last held in the United States, and in 2002. The winner before 1974 got the Jules Rimet Trophy, which Brazil claimed in 1958, 1962 and 1970.

So Savoia has tattoos of the different trophies on his left thigh, with the years Brazil claimed each one. If Brazil wins again in 2026, his tattooist will be ready to add that year to his leg.