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You talking about NBC or whatever? Weren't a lot of teams on? Why did you pick liverpool out of all those teams?powerbelly said:
Liverpool was on tv a lot during 04/05 and they were the first team I followed.
When you say you wore 23, I assume you mean you playing soccer?OregonAggie said:
When I was a kid, my dad and I started watching a lot of premier league games. Coincidentally we started watching during Robbie Fowler's first season with Liverpool's first team (around 93-94). He's my favorite player ever and I wore 23 in high school because that was his first number with Liverpool.
I've followed them ever since. I grew up in the Dallas area so I don't have a family tie to the team but they've been my favorite since I was 13-14 years old.
Were you already watching a bunch of soccer with your parents or something? If not, then how would you as an American know who Michael Owen and Steven Gerard were to seek them out and then become a Liverpool fan?jeffk said:
Michael Owen and Steven Gerard were my favorite players when I was younger. Seemed natural to progress into a reds fan.
aTmAg said:
So out of curiosity.. I'm surprised there is so many Liverpool fans on TexAgs. I can understand if you grew up there or if your parents were Liverpool fans and passed that on to you, but for those of you grew up as a normal American (like me) and never heard of the Premiere league until you were an adult, what made you pick Liverpool?
Somewhere on TexAgs, somebody posted a video of a couple A&M fans going to a European soccer game saying there was a lot of similarities. Was that Liverpool?BenderRodriguez said:aTmAg said:
So out of curiosity.. I'm surprised there is so many Liverpool fans on TexAgs. I can understand if you grew up there or if your parents were Liverpool fans and passed that on to you, but for those of you grew up as a normal American (like me) and never heard of the Premiere league until you were an adult, what made you pick Liverpool?
In the early 2000s I was playing club soccer for a club that hired a lot of English coaches.
Our club coach encouraged us to start watching the premier league to get a better idea of the general "style" they wanted us to play.
I watched any game we managed to see early on, with zero preference. But as a center midfielder, one player started standing out the more I watched. Steven Gerrard. Started watching more Liverpool games to see how he played the position. Then started to like other players on the team, the team in general. Then I saw the Istanbul final against AC Milan. Any club with fans like that and a team like that....I was sold.
I'm not surprised lots of Ags like Liverpool. I see a lot of similarities between us....a past history of success, craving new championships, devoted fans. But another sad similarity is Bonfire and Hillsborough. Both tragedies that deeply affected the fans of both teams, both are mocked/misrepresented by people who aren't fans, both still weigh heavily on the collective memory of the fanbases.
aTmAg said:Were you already watching a bunch of soccer with your parents or something? If not, then how would you as an American know who Michael Owen and Steven Gerard were to seek them out and then become a Liverpool fan?jeffk said:
Michael Owen and Steven Gerard were my favorite players when I was younger. Seemed natural to progress into a reds fan.
Or were you watching premiere league soccer one day and see one of them and decide, "I like that guy" and then follow Liverpool because of that?
In a way I'm similar, even though it wasn't me who played, but my kids.jeffk said:aTmAg said:Were you already watching a bunch of soccer with your parents or something? If not, then how would you as an American know who Michael Owen and Steven Gerard were to seek them out and then become a Liverpool fan?jeffk said:
Michael Owen and Steven Gerard were my favorite players when I was younger. Seemed natural to progress into a reds fan.
Or were you watching premiere league soccer one day and see one of them and decide, "I like that guy" and then follow Liverpool because of that?
I was playing youth soccer competitively and all my teammates had favorite teams (a lot of United and Juve and Real fans really) so I watched games with them at their houses and then watched on my own once we got actual cable tv at ours when I was in HS. Started following the leagues more closely after that and liked how Owen and Gerard played so naturally watched more LFC games than other teams. Also, I couldn't just pick a team to support that was the same as my friends or teammates so Liverpool made sense in that way too. My parents supported my playing soccer, but I wouldn't say they're fans of any club or players.
Interesting, why do you like Puyol so much as a Liverpool fan?jeffk said:
Naturally! No one in their right mind should like Ramos or Pepe or Rafa Marquez for that matter. Puyol may be one of my favorite players of all time actually (right up there with Beckerman).
aTmAg said:Interesting, why do you like Puyol so much as a Liverpool fan?jeffk said:
Naturally! No one in their right mind should like Ramos or Pepe or Rafa Marquez for that matter. Puyol may be one of my favorite players of all time actually (right up there with Beckerman).
Ironically, I wasn't a Suarez fan because of the famous handball and all the biting. But after a while of watching him on Barca for a while he has grown on me. He busts his ass.OregonAggie said:aTmAg said:Interesting, why do you like Puyol so much as a Liverpool fan?jeffk said:
Naturally! No one in their right mind should like Ramos or Pepe or Rafa Marquez for that matter. Puyol may be one of my favorite players of all time actually (right up there with Beckerman).
I won't answer this question for Jeff but I'll just say there's a ton of players but I love to watch, including Messi (for the reasons you've mentioned), Luis Suarez, Vidal, Eden Hazard, Modric, and Diego Costa are all guys I love to watch play. I've never been a Barcalona fan but I do like their players. I also root for them above Real because I love watching those guys.
Vidal is amazing to me. Plays with heart, has incredible work rate, and tackles the hell outta people. Who wouldn't want to watch a guy like that.
He seems to also be a class act too. There is a video somewhere of him getting punched in the face or something, and when his teammates come to retaliate, he jumps in and stops them.jeffk said:
I played marking back growing up and I loved how Puyol played the position.