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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
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Stratos_speAr
United States6959 Posts
On November 07 2014 03:35 malcram wrote: How did you come to support your favourite clubs? For me, it was a little over 20 years ago when I moved into a new housing estate. It was called Chelsea Village. lol... Back then, the EPL was shown on my local free-to-air sports channel (FREE!! gone are the days >.>) I managed to catch some Chelsea games and fell in love with Zola! Although I guess being from a country or region with little to no football talent, and EPL being the big football export in the day, it was easy to follow an English club. Americans really had no clue about anything soccer-related back when I first started following it (early 2000's), so I didn't know or care much at all until I was 14. I was starting high school and had to do a long-term German project (I'm of German ancestry and I don't like French or Spanish, so I chose to study German), so I followed a German team and wrote about them for my German language class. I picked Dortmund because I liked their colors/fans/what little I could research about them (Dortmund's colors happen to be the colors of my Alma Mater as well), so I followed them, even though they were a hot mess then. I really had no way to watch the Bundesliga, especially back then, so I mostly had to follow along online. A decade later, that fairly arbitrary choice in initial club has paid off, since I like pretty much everything about the club and region. :D | ||
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Faruko
Chile34173 Posts
being going to the stadium since 5 or so years old, sadly i no longer live there but every time i go there i cannot miss it ! in fact now that we finally got to the 1st division i can see them where i live now (Capital)  even if we get crush sometimes im still 100% there | ||
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smr
Germany4808 Posts
On November 07 2014 03:35 malcram wrote: How did you come to support your favourite clubs? For me, it was a little over 20 years ago when I moved into a new housing estate. It was called Chelsea Village. lol... Back then, the EPL was shown on my local free-to-air sports channel (FREE!! gone are the days >.>) I managed to catch some Chelsea games and fell in love with Zola! Although I guess being from a country or region with little to no football talent, and EPL being the big football export in the day, it was easy to follow an English club. Went to my first football training when I was 5 years old in the early 90s. Two of the other boys there wore a Dortmund jersey. That's it. End of the story. Had no idea of the clubs history. I didn't know if they were good or if they ever won anything. The next year I stood in the yellow wall for the first time. Irrational love. | ||
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Greg_J
China4409 Posts
We're live on the BBC tomorrow Warrington vs Exeter (sounds like a rugby game) first time I will have seen them play since I left Exeter for Korea about 5 years ago. I don't know a single player any more TT | ||
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Maenander
Germany4927 Posts
http://gfycat.com/GiddyFickleInsect And de Bruyne proves he is worth the hype, he definitely makes the difference in a lot of games. | ||
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Ferrose
United States11378 Posts
On November 07 2014 03:35 malcram wrote: How did you come to support your favourite clubs? For me, it was a little over 20 years ago when I moved into a new housing estate. It was called Chelsea Village. lol... Back then, the EPL was shown on my local free-to-air sports channel (FREE!! gone are the days >.>) I managed to catch some Chelsea games and fell in love with Zola! Although I guess being from a country or region with little to no football talent, and EPL being the big football export in the day, it was easy to follow an English club. I loved Thierry Henry and Dennis Bergkamp as a kid so I naturally liked Arsenal. : D On November 07 2014 07:10 Maenander wrote: Wolfsburg are on fire in recent games, even Bendtner scored a nice goal against Krasnodar ^^ http://gfycat.com/GiddyFickleInsect And de Bruyne proves he is worth the hype, he definitely makes the difference in a lot of games. Seems like de Bruyne has been scoring in every game lately ._. England squad for November international break The highlight is that Saido Berahino gets his first senior callup after an impressive 7 goals in the first 9 matches of the PL season. I don't really agree with calling up Theo Walcott though, he's played about 10 minutes since returning from his 10 month injury. Hopefully he'll just train and won't play at all. | ||
Liquid`Drone
Norway28916 Posts
On November 07 2014 03:35 malcram wrote: How did you come to support your favourite clubs? For me, it was a little over 20 years ago when I moved into a new housing estate. It was called Chelsea Village. lol... Back then, the EPL was shown on my local free-to-air sports channel (FREE!! gone are the days >.>) I managed to catch some Chelsea games and fell in love with Zola! Although I guess being from a country or region with little to no football talent, and EPL being the big football export in the day, it was easy to follow an English club. I was looking at The Championship table and Newcastle were in the lead. I thought it was a kickass name. Then next season I got to watch them play in the PL, and they also had an awesome team - Peter Beardsley had a couple incredible seasons after ascension, and then they got shearer and ginola and asprilla and it was superentertaining. | ||
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malcram
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wingpawn
Poland1342 Posts
On November 07 2014 03:35 malcram wrote: How did you come to support your favourite clubs? For me, it was a little over 20 years ago when I moved into a new housing estate. It was called Chelsea Village. lol... Back then, the EPL was shown on my local free-to-air sports channel (FREE!! gone are the days >.>) I managed to catch some Chelsea games and fell in love with Zola! Although I guess being from a country or region with little to no football talent, and EPL being the big football export in the day, it was easy to follow an English club. The date was April 18th 2000. The venue: Camp Nou, Barcelona. Blaugrana was playing the rematch in Champions League quarterfinal, two goals down after first leg against Chelsea. That team had no defensive discipline whatsoever, but that night, they didn't even need it because they ripped through The Blues like knife through the butter. Those were times when Rivaldo wasn't a injury-faking clown, Figo wasn't a traitor and Guardiola was actually kickass playmaker instead of control-obsessed manager. From that times, the only two things that didn't change are: me being hooked up on the team and Louis Van Gaal promoting his insanely risky, attacking approach to the game. | ||
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ViperPL
Poland1775 Posts
On November 07 2014 03:35 malcram wrote: How did you come to support your favourite clubs? For me, it was a little over 20 years ago when I moved into a new housing estate. It was called Chelsea Village. lol... Back then, the EPL was shown on my local free-to-air sports channel (FREE!! gone are the days >.>) I managed to catch some Chelsea games and fell in love with Zola! Although I guess being from a country or region with little to no football talent, and EPL being the big football export in the day, it was easy to follow an English club. Hah, for me it was pretty funny beginnings. In 1998 my dad got me FIFA98 computer game, so when I first started it I had to pick a team for my first match. I picked Juventus totally at random (first I went into italian clubs cause I liked their flag colours displayed in game) and then just selected on of the teams. For some reason I enjoyed that 1st ever match and from then on Juve was the only team I played in FIFA98 and that's how I became a fan. I still have a sentiment for them but after the corruption drama of 2005 they no longer were my favourite team. I'm also Bayern enthusiast from around 2000 thanks to Oliver Khan and players like Mehmet Scholl, Effenberg, Lothar Matthaus, Bixente Lizarazu because their names were funny to me (I was around 12 yo kid back then so don't judge me too hard  ). Plus nowadays they have the best polish player as well, which is awesome!EDIT: I just remembered that it was actually year 1996 and my dad got me FIFA96 game. Damn, I'm so old my memory doesn't work anymore  | ||
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malcram
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GizmoPT
Portugal3040 Posts
On November 07 2014 16:41 ViperPL wrote: Hah, for me it was pretty funny beginnings. In 1998 my dad got me FIFA98 computer game, so when I first started it I had to pick a team for my first match. I picked Juventus totally at random (first I went into italian clubs cause I liked their flag colours displayed in game) and then just selected on of the teams. For some reason I enjoyed that 1st ever match and from then on Juve was the only team I played in FIFA98 and that's how I became a fan. I still have a sentiment for them but after the corruption drama of 2005 they no longer were my favourite team. I'm also Bayern enthusiast from around 2000 thanks to Oliver Khan and players like Mehmet Scholl, Effenberg, Lothar Matthaus, Bixente Lizarazu because their names were funny to me (I was around 12 yo kid back then so don't judge me too hard ). Plus nowadays they have the best polish player as well, which is awesome!I don't know the exact age but i was realy realy young, my mom wanted me to be Benfica supporter and would tell everyone my club was benfica, but one day my father took me to watch Sporting and bought me Sporting shirt and it became my favourite shirt, Im Sporting fan since then ^^. It also helps i pass by Sporting stadium everyday :p Fifa 95 what a nice game.. bicycle kicks from the midfield and ball getting stuck on posts :p Also good times when Championship Manager 2 (96/97) used to take million years to load start of game on my crappy computer. Also Elifoot II (92/93) and Elifoot 98, made by portuguese guy, i loved Elifoot :p PS: Benfica sucks. | ||
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warding
Portugal2397 Posts
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GizmoPT
Portugal3040 Posts
On November 07 2014 19:02 warding wrote: Rui Costa. nuff said ![[image loading]](http://cdn3.spong.com/pack/f/i/fifasoccer6708/_-FIFA-99-PlayStation-_.jpg) | ||
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GizmoPT
Portugal3040 Posts
"Van Gaal wants Nani back at Manchester United in shock January U-turn" .... NO NO NO NO NO NO ... he wasnt good for you months ago now he is ? he is fine in Sporting leave him alone. Man U supporters were just talking shit about Nani when he was there and now they blaming Van Gaal for loaning him and want him back lol | ||
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Rokomish
United States68 Posts
More recently some of my Italian friends got me into Serie A, and they are obsessed with Palermo so I jumped on board that train a couple years ago. Some of your stories are really interesting! As an American, I always figured Europeans just supported their local club (which is what we do for American football here). | ||
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Rebs
Pakistan10726 Posts
On November 07 2014 03:35 malcram wrote: How did you come to support your favourite clubs? For me, it was a little over 20 years ago when I moved into a new housing estate. It was called Chelsea Village. lol... Back then, the EPL was shown on my local free-to-air sports channel (FREE!! gone are the days >.>) I managed to catch some Chelsea games and fell in love with Zola! Although I guess being from a country or region with little to no football talent, and EPL being the big football export in the day, it was easy to follow an English club. We didnt have cable when I was in Pakistan in the mid and late 90's so we used to steal Hong Kong sports network channels using dish antenna's . They used to show one liga and one seria A game every weekend. I mostly just watched because I had no interest. Then I started playing in school and turned out my watching meant I was a bit ahead of the curve so I watched more (mind you this is a very very low standard of football and no one played it then, its actually pretty big now). Then the 98 world cup happened. My dad really liked the dutch national team. So naturally I like the dutch national team. And where does like 90 percent of the dutch national team play after the world cup. Van Gaals Barca, oh and they had Rivaldo to. Sold.. | ||
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rotta
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Steveling
Greece10806 Posts
Ez choice is ez. | ||
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