I always played and was interested in football growing up. I had one club I rose from under 8's from, and in Australian rules football (AFL) I also had one club that my family supported from the sixties (Port Adelaide) who were so successful we got into the top league where we are today. The point of that is, I've always felt it not so much important but just natural to support the clubs that are in my blood, as I was born to do so, I think it comes from being a Capricorn also, proud of your tradition and heritage. So like Port Adelaide my old mans team was Liverpool; and Olympiakos; I've proudly inherited all these clubs and couldn't imagine it any other way.
In my first days of High School my German teacher, in a bid to get us more involved in German or something, drew us all football clubs from the Bundesliga and I drew Bayern Munchen. Although I still had AFL as my first love (but always played "soccer") I began to be more interested in watching the world game and it wasn't until a couple of years later that I started watching the Premier League and took a major interest in Liverpool. It's pure coincidence that the clubs I support are outrageously successful and I see many similarities with Pool and Port.. we both love to get sh*t on by the media, love to be hated, so proud of our past. My old man doesn't not love Liverpool but has Olympiakos and Paok he would probably prefer to watch not that he doesn't closely follow Pool, but I inherited a strong love for the Reds as I don't speak Greek that well.
My brother supports Chelsea.... But at least he follows family tradition of Port.
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