My
Sport Life
As
you might not know, I am a relatively large sport fan. I follow
soccer, basketball, and football. I also might know a thing or two
about hockey. In this post, hopefully you will know more about me and
all the sport references I might make in the future. I will start
with discussing about how I started enjoying sport and how I started
following them. Since I originate from a country where us people
aren't the best in what they they do (All the sports I mentioned
earlier), my country has a great heart which accepts soccer. Kids
play on the street like South Americans do but due to the lack of
support given to athletes, most athletes which do great
internationally have a potentially bad future.
First
of all, I would like so share how I started to enjoy sports. I
remember the very first sporting event I watched live on television
was a Formula One race. I estimate that it was back in '07 and I
remember Michael Schumacher in a bright red and white racing suit
spraying champagne. I really thought it was a cool sport because I
liked fast cars back then. I had and still have an F1 blanket and I
would make car sounds in school. However, time has passed. I started
soccer as a United fan at the end of the '09, just when Cristiano
Ronaldo validated his huge move to Real Madrid. The first full time
soccer match I watched was when Dimitar Berbatov made a beautiful
hattrick when Manchester United downed Liverpool 3-2. I remember it
was in 2010, and I loved the match. I then started to drift away from
the mainstream BPL and I moved to German giants Bayern Munich. The
main reason for that was an English team's absence in the UCL, which
I'm positive is Man United and Chelsea's finals in the 07-08 season.
My
love for basketball however was a little different. My father got my
brother an NBA game for PC and I was terrible at it. I would watch
him play everyday and the team he always chose was either the Chicago
Bulls or the Dallas Mavericks. The reasons were: 1. They had cool
logos, and 2. Jordan. I'm pretty sure Jordan wasn't in the game but
the first team I liked was the Chicago Bulls because of Michael
Jordan. All that changed when I moved schools. My friends knew a
thing or two about basketball. It was the year when the Miami heat
were dominating the East, as King James and his crew drove through
young Rose's Bulls 4-1 but were ultimately shocked by most probably
the deadliest 7-foot shooter also known as Dirk Nowitzki. I was a
bandwagoner back then, but I understood more about the sport when I
arrived in 4th grade. I rooted for the Spurs because I
liked pop's beard and hair. They then lost to OKC, which got downed
by the living triple double machine: LeBron James. The next year
however was a bit different. The spurs were some thirty seconds from
holding the Larry O'Brien trophy when one evil man, shooter of
shooters Ray Allen pulled a cold blooded icy jumper in the buzzer
which forced OT and it eventually pointed to game 7. For me, last
year was a sweet success. We destroyed the Heat 4-1 which many
witnessed as one of the best ball movements in history. 
Last
but not least, my addiction for football just came last year. We are
talking about of course, NFL Football just in case any pommes come
near this blog. I started from scratch with no knowledge about
football; I didn't know who the heck Peyton Manning was and I thought
that Tom Brady was just a cool name for some kind of businessman. I
didn't even know what the Super Bowl was and I literally thought that
the only purpose of the game was to somehow make the ball go in the
goal. The first time I heard about it was Seattle's first
championship when they just destroyed Peyton and friends. When I
first started 7th grade, I saw a Rams sticker on my
teacher's laptop. I was looking at their division and I was thinking;
hmm, the Rams? Nahh, my teacher likes them. Seattle and SF? Too
mainstream. Arizona? Perfect. I started liking them alongside New
England since Tom Brady was literally the second player I actually
knew (First was Manning). Arizona were off to an amazing 9-1 start
when their veteran quarterback, Carson Palmer torn his ACL. We were
then off to a nosedive; a poor 11-5 finish that barely made it to the
playoffs (Even below Carolina). In contrast, New England had a
terrible start and were destroyed by the Chiefs, 41-14. They then
finished strongly, enough to make a first seed finish which
eventually won them a shiny 4th ring.
In
conclusion, I enjoyed my teams' glory at the end of this year. New
England won a Super Bowl, Arizona were very mediocre, Bayern of
course won their league and the Spurs could've done better if it
wasn't for losing Kawhi early on. Thanks for reading, even coming
across it, and remember that all of this is based on my opinion and
experience.
