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We have quite a range of age of the fans around here,so i thought we should all share our views about how was football for us when we grew up and what changed now in the modern game as most people like to call it.
Being born in 86 im naturally a 90`s brought up football fan.Till 94 my contact with the sport was mostly trying to kick the ball but without any team affiliation or actually knowing who are the best football players etc.
1994 was a great year for me ,it was a world cup year.I still remember watching the Romanian NT games on tv with my Hagi shirt on.Screaming like a kid off his meds out the window when our team scored ;going at half time in front of the building meeting with my friends,quickly discussing the first half then running back up to see the second half.
At some point during the world cup ,i got my first Panini world cup 94 album.From 94 till about early 2000 this albums where quite a big thing in the world of kids who like football.
After the world cup was over i went to my first game of Poli Timisoara.Our team was shit(still suffering hard from the aftermaths of the communism shit teams)but the atmosphere in the stands was amazing and it was what made me a instant fan.
Since we where kinda on and off from the first division ,i rarely got to see away games( no tv coverage ) but i did see the home ones.
Anyway does Panini albums are actually what got me to watch the Serie A and become a Milan fan.I still remember being so proud every time i finished my collection of a Milan team(94 ,96 &98 )
But sadly i could not watch most Milan games as i didn't get them all on tv.Till 2004 since i got to watch Serie A constantly weather on tv or on internet streams ,i mostly got my info on Milan from does albums or from TV/TELETEXT.
If any of you had the similar experience regarding Milan ,do you remember coming home from school or wherever quickly checking the teletext page to see if Milan won the game?Tv has never been more exciting for me as back then,right now i rarely watch it anyway .(tv tuner ftw)
Calcio from the 90`s till 2005 was the most exciting league in the world.People breath football in the stadiums week in and week out.You had all this legendary players in the league ,all this emblematic players for there teams.
No other league even came close to that.It inspired kids to want to play football every free second they would have.I still remember spending hours on the football field of all the schools i went to ,even though the quality of the pitch was as shit as it could get in most cases .
Around 2004 the internet really kicked off(football wise) and also managers games /fifa games started getting better and better.Most kids nowadays actually prefer playing does games to actually playing football IRL.Dont get me wrong i like the "football manager " series but im not a teenager anymore ,and what ever chance i had to play football professionally is gone.
I feel kids who like football should only get into this type of games after there`s no chance of actually playing the game professionally .Also playing does games & watching every game they can get there hands on(streams etc) kinda increases the number of arm chair fans.
From what i saw and experienced personally ,playing football in the dirt makes people want to go to stadiums more regularly then people who only play the games.
So to conclude this long ass post,i wanna say i feel lucky being apart of the 90`s football generation ,cause things right now for football are going in the wrong direction.
Being born in 86 im naturally a 90`s brought up football fan.Till 94 my contact with the sport was mostly trying to kick the ball but without any team affiliation or actually knowing who are the best football players etc.
1994 was a great year for me ,it was a world cup year.I still remember watching the Romanian NT games on tv with my Hagi shirt on.Screaming like a kid off his meds out the window when our team scored ;going at half time in front of the building meeting with my friends,quickly discussing the first half then running back up to see the second half.
At some point during the world cup ,i got my first Panini world cup 94 album.From 94 till about early 2000 this albums where quite a big thing in the world of kids who like football.
After the world cup was over i went to my first game of Poli Timisoara.Our team was shit(still suffering hard from the aftermaths of the communism shit teams)but the atmosphere in the stands was amazing and it was what made me a instant fan.
Since we where kinda on and off from the first division ,i rarely got to see away games( no tv coverage ) but i did see the home ones.
Anyway does Panini albums are actually what got me to watch the Serie A and become a Milan fan.I still remember being so proud every time i finished my collection of a Milan team(94 ,96 &98 )
But sadly i could not watch most Milan games as i didn't get them all on tv.Till 2004 since i got to watch Serie A constantly weather on tv or on internet streams ,i mostly got my info on Milan from does albums or from TV/TELETEXT.
If any of you had the similar experience regarding Milan ,do you remember coming home from school or wherever quickly checking the teletext page to see if Milan won the game?Tv has never been more exciting for me as back then,right now i rarely watch it anyway .(tv tuner ftw)
Calcio from the 90`s till 2005 was the most exciting league in the world.People breath football in the stadiums week in and week out.You had all this legendary players in the league ,all this emblematic players for there teams.
No other league even came close to that.It inspired kids to want to play football every free second they would have.I still remember spending hours on the football field of all the schools i went to ,even though the quality of the pitch was as shit as it could get in most cases .
Around 2004 the internet really kicked off(football wise) and also managers games /fifa games started getting better and better.Most kids nowadays actually prefer playing does games to actually playing football IRL.Dont get me wrong i like the "football manager " series but im not a teenager anymore ,and what ever chance i had to play football professionally is gone.
I feel kids who like football should only get into this type of games after there`s no chance of actually playing the game professionally .Also playing does games & watching every game they can get there hands on(streams etc) kinda increases the number of arm chair fans.
From what i saw and experienced personally ,playing football in the dirt makes people want to go to stadiums more regularly then people who only play the games.
So to conclude this long ass post,i wanna say i feel lucky being apart of the 90`s football generation ,cause things right now for football are going in the wrong direction.
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