All Football Fan of the Year Election was open yesterday! We have received so many nominations all over the world. Here we pick some stories to share with AFers. You can click HERE to write down your own story! For more information, please check the article.
A fan from Ghana, Bright Fasemkye, a passionate football lover and a die-hard fan of Cristiano Ronaldo.
I'm easy going and very compassionate. This is my own part of the competition. Ever since I was a kid, I always adore Cristiano Ronaldo. He's a true legend in football and I will never stop watching his games until he retires. We lived in a Village and a class mate of mine was having play station game console. one which was not affordable at all. He was very stingy and did not allow us to play with him.
So I decided to make my own football game. I went to the refuse dump with my old time friend, to gather bottle tops. We decorated them into players and goal keepers. My captain was Ronaldo which was bodly written on top of the bottle tops with paper and super glue. It was called Cantest ball lol. We really enjoyed and Ronaldo was the best shooter on my team. He scored penalties and free-kicks all the time.
A kid from Canada. Chace, 8yrs old.
I have played soccer for two years and love everything about soccer. My dream is to one day play in Europe. I really wanted to play doccer for my home town of Whitby, Ontario Canada. I went to the tryouts this year. I tried my hardest and went to three tryouts. I had planters faciatis during the tryouts and even though my feet hurt very bad i was able to make the Rep team. I was very excited and I am very proud to play for my hometown.
A fan TX in the great U.S.A. a 37-year-old man
I started playing soccer at the age of 5 and it became my passion. At the age of 9 I started riding steers, but continued to play soccer, outdoor, indoor, and then went to select. My select team was very competitive, we would play regular season and about 5 big tournaments in Texas, a season. I remember scoring 2 Olympic goals to win a tournament against a team that beat us 2-0 the day before, we won the final 2-0 and took home the trophy. After playing so much soccer, I was still riding and I quit playing all sports except bull riding,
my passion had moved to bull riding and I wanted to be the best. At the age of 13 is when that happened, and I went on to ride Bulls professionally in the P.B.R. After all the injuries, one career ending one, I fought back and made the P.B.R. World finals 2 years later. The next year I ended up breaking my ankle, but continued to ride for 8 months. Finally that December I had surgery on my ankle. I met the love of my life that September and we started a family, but I still rode until I was 29, then finally decided to quit getting on them bulls, and raise my family.
I broke my leg the last time when my little girl was 5 days old. Finally 21 years later after I quit playing soccer I started playing coed again just to go play and show both my kids who have both played since they were 4. Just a little bit of how much focus and effort you have to put out on the pitch. I love watching both my kids play and I love them getting to watch me play as well. That’s the way my mind and body wanted to go so that’s what I did. I might ’ve had a career playing soccer, but I did what my heart told me to.
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Jonathanakanyijuka
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Am Akanyijuka Jonathan from Uganda and a great football fan more so a Manchester united fan. My story begins I grew up from a family that no body liked football, when I started schooling at the age of 5 years our school was always the best almost in all competitions but I liked watching our school play football and my dream was always to become a footballer but since my parents never liked football they were always telling me that one time if they break your leg stay there, but I continued chasing my dream. We never had money to buy balls we used to make our own balls from polythene bags and banana fibres we used to call them KARERE in our local language. We could only get the real ball when the season for inter school competition could reach. HERE WERE OUR FOOTBALL RULES IN OUR GAMES 1. The goals were measured four foot steps apart using the bricks or our sandles. 2. Three corner kicks could make a penalty. 3.when the ball passes of the goal keeper when he has raised both hands its not a goal. when u could score a goal and you goal ahead and the the goals either to pick the ball all your goals will be cancelled let's say team A is leading team B with 3-2 and the player for team A crosses the goal line for team B instead of 4-2 it will be 0-2 hahahaha. The owner of the ball could be the one to select players to play and if you make a bad foul on him he could send you out of the pitch that's there was no referee. When I reached in primary five I was selected on the schools team even my parents surprisingly watched that years competition and we won the competition that year it was 2007 and the following year I went with my friend to watch football it was a game between Manchester united and Chelsea champions league final that match ended 6-5 on penalties the game was so entertaining I came out of the cinema hole knowing three people who made me support Manchester united that was christiano Ronaldo Wayne Rooney and the goal keeper Edwin van der sar. But unfortunately I when I went back home I found when they have already slept when I knocked they opened and started beating me but I never stopped watching Manchester united up to now am a diehard fan of Manchester united and I went ahead to know most of the club history since I loved it so match. My happiest moments as a Manchester united fan are 1. 2008/2009 3-1 quarter final win against arsenal at home 2.2011/2012 8-2 win over arsenal. Thanks to degea penalty save from van persie 3. 2012/2013 premier league champions 4. 2016/17 Europa league victory 5. Dramatic come back against local rivals man city but before that that Rooney's gaol against Man city in 2012/2013 Then lastly the sack of Jose mourinho. I thank All football administration for giving us time to express ourselves. I have even told here like 30 people about ALL FOOTBALL APP how you can watch games live and how it breaks down the latest news about foot ball