Unless you are actually from one of those cities: anons why do you "support" a big club? Have you ever even visited a match of them? What made you relate to it?What is your stance on supporting your local club?
>>154100551I support Manchester United because a girl I had a crush on in year 4 did
>>154100551>tottenham
>no man I don't support my national team it's full of african mercenaries>meanwhile "his" club
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>>154100551Because I my favourite player as a kid played for themBeacause I got their jersey for my birthday when I was youngBecaue my local team is too shit for the continental tournaments and I wanted someone to root for
>>154100551I never watched a single game of non-Swedish football except for some CL until this season when Gyökeres went to Arsenal. I’ve watched almost every single Arsenal game this season including FA/Carabao/CL. Just ecstatic about having a Swedish striker for one of the biggest clubs in the world. (Zlatan is Bosnian/Croatian, Isak is Eritrean, Henrik Larsson is mulatto). Dont think we’ve had an ethnic Swedish striker at this level since the 1950’s with Gunnar Nordahl, whom is one of the best strikers ever.
>>154100551Normally because their clubs don't play in Europe, I found it gay as fuck
>>154100551>why do you "support" a big club?My earliest memory is watching Ronaldinho score that amazing dancing goal against Chelski in the CL (Barça lost that match and were eliminated BTW, so it wasn't about muh glory hunting)>Have you ever even visited a match of them?1 at old Camp Nou (2-1 vs Mallorca)1 at Montjuic (3-1 vs Benfica)*3 at Spotify Camp Nou (5-2 vs Sevilla, 7-2 vs Newcastle, 1-0 vs Rayo)*Was supposed to go to the Osasuna match a few days prior but Dr. Miñarro died and the match was cancelled>What made you relate to it?Ronaldinho the GOAT, the way they make football into an art form, history of resisting the cavern machine, Cruyff philosophy "I'd rather win 5-4 than 1-0," supporting through the glory years (sextuple, 5-0, MSN, trebles) and the shit years (4-0, 8-2, europa league, eintracht), able to become a soci.>What is your stance on supporting your local club?I had no local club growing up (MLS franchise expansion didn't bring a team until 2015). I've been to more Barça matches than Orlando, let's put it that way.
>>154102339>Zlatan is Bosnian/Croatian, Isak is Eritrean, Henrik Larsson is mulattoAnd Gyökeres is not Hungarian?
>>154100551>Tottenham>AtleticoAt this point, perhaps even >MilanBut granted, I don’t know of many Milan and Atletico bandwagoners
>>154100551>Have you ever even visited a match of them?several times>What made you relate to it?what>What is your stance on supporting your local club?dont have one
>>154100551The lowest lifeform in the world is someone from a football powerhouse nation supporting a foreign „big“ club. It’s even worse than people bandwagoning clubs from their country, like people from Lower Saxony LARPing as dedicated Bayern fans who totally didn’t just choose to follow the club that usually wins everythingI am not entirely sure about most people from weaker football nations, especially if they genuinely don’t have clubs you could consider local (Americans, Australians, and Canadians may be the only ones truly capable of invoking this). They can of course be genuine fans. But these people magically supporting only Premier League clubs or Barca/Real or maybe the current CL winner still is a bad look. Many of them are just bandwagoners
You get much more brain reward chemicals by following a big club as a kid. And of course all the most popular players end up there anyway. Then with globalization and screen addiction the big club actually get on everyone's radar first. A more local club doesn't get the (social) media attention. To prefer the local club you have to have a father who shielded you from all this and then it's a constant struggle. With the big club you get the instant reward without a lot of struggle and boredom and desperation. That only comes in your adult life when you realize it was all a fake business and there's only loyalty to money
>>154102945>Americans, Australians, and CanadiansStill calling yourself a fan is cringe. You can enjoy something without larping as a "fan"
United fan since high school. Never been to a game since I prefer watching on TV, plus I'm technically banned from entering the UK. I support United because of van Nistelrooij and the kit. Local team folded during the GFC.
>>1541026823/4 grandparents are Swedish, 1/4 Hungarian. He’s born in Sweden, raised in Sweden, speaks Swedish as his native language, looks Swedish, doesnt even speak Hungarian.Hes counted as an ethnic Swede by Swedes.
>>154103365So when Hungarians try to claim him I find that laughable, hes one of us. I understand Eritreans claiming Isak as he isnt one of us, but Big Dick Vik? Forget it.
>what's your stance on supporting your local clubwell, in my case, that would likely mean supporting a club affiliated with chiqui tapia, so that's a fuckin' no. I live close to San Lorenzo's stadium. I have gone past it via bus many times.That's the problem with the "you have to heckin' support your local team" mentality, you're assuming that everything is neat and in order in other countries.
>>154103405Didn’t you have a club passed down to you? Especially in Buenos Aires, there are so many clubs you can choose from. In my region, the density of relevant football clubs is quite high as well, and most people just stick with what their fathers supported before them. Except for the ones who jumped on the Dortmund bandwagon 15 years agoTapia will come and go, the club exists without him. Turning away from a club definitively because of one person sounds a bit extreme
>>154100551All of the big teams in the premier league have foreign managers, mostly foreign players, mostly foreign owners, big football clubs are corporations.
>>154103072>Why?
>>154103072>I'm technically banned from entering the UKWhy?
>>154103523our maddie
>>154100551I am quite happy my club is basically bandwagoner-proof (through years of misery and the Bundesliga being comparatively marketing-shy) while still being fairly big. I genuinely respect every foreign fan. If we ever see some golden era, I wouldn’t be able to have that sort of trust anymore … I would, however, probably make that sacrifice regardless. But it’s nice to know what you haveSometimes I wonder where our >100 Fanclubs from other countries come from, they can’t be all expat Germans. And people who just like one player from their country probably don’t usually go as far as founding a fanclub
>>154100551These are the players who played on my team and will now wear the national team jersey.My team is bigger than half of that list. I won’t even bother listing the other national teams.Heitor, Caetano, Imparato, Serafini, Luizinho Mesquita, Lima, Canhotinho, Jair Rosa Pinto, Rodrigues, Humberto Tozzi, Mazzola, Djalma Santos, Chinesinho, Julinho Botelho, Zequinha, Vavá, Rinaldo, Dudu (Olegário Tolói de Oliveira), Germano, Servílio, Tupãzinho, Leivinha, César Maluco, Jorge Mendonça, Jorginho Putinatti, Mirandinha, Careca Bianchesi, Mazinho, Evair, Zinho, Roberto Carlos, Edmundo, Rivaldo, Flávio Conceição, Luizão, Djalmninha, Cafu, Marcos, Alex, Roque Junior, Marcos Assunção,Gabriel Jesus, Dudu (Eduardo Pereira Rodrigues), Endrick and Estevão.The Brazilian national team has never won the World Cup without having at least one Palmeiras player in the starting lineup—and that’s exactly why we’re going to lose the World Cup. That idiot Ancelotti probably won’t pick either Vitor Roque or Andreas Pereira.
