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.
We will share more stories soon...
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