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Montreal Olympics. Got to see France/Mexico and USSR/North Korea in Ottawa. Also got to see Pele, Chinaglia and Beckenbauer on the Cosmos around the same time.
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"I will love it if we beat them! Love it!" is the first football thing I remember.
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Jul 12, 2014 20:31
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My dad taking me to see Hibs in 1992 is my first clear footballing memory. I'm pretty sure they lost shockingly enough. I definitely remember Italia 90 going on when I was 5, but I can't remember any of the actual football. I watched 94 obsessively though.
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Jul 12, 2014 21:10
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I vaguely recall playing organized football for the first time at the age of six, just before starting school. As far as watching it goes, I think I was somewhat aware of Norway - England 2-0 happening in 1993 because everyone was talking about it, but I'm not sure I actually saw the game. I think the first game I ever went to was Norway - Denmark in 1994, at the age of seven. I was something of a Manchester United supporter at the time partly because I was aping one of my older brothers, and partly because I'd visited Old Trafford the year before, and I think I remember getting disappointed with Peter Schmeichel because he got very angry about something. I thought he got a yellow or even red card, but I've just looked up the game in both the Norwegian and Danish football associations databases and neither one has a record of that, so I must be misremembering. Norway won the game 2-1, so that was pretty cool. I remember watching some of the 1994 World Cup, but I don't remember caring all that much about it. The 1998 World Cup was the first big football event that I cared about personally, and I was actually at the Norway - Brazil game where Norway came back from a 0-1 deficit to win 2-1 and advance from the group stages in a World Cup for the first and only time. That's pretty much the biggest moment in Norwegian football history, which I didn't fully realize until much later. Sigh, Norway were actually worth watching in the 90s.
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Jul 12, 2014 21:17
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tetsman posted:Italia 90 and the panini sticker album. This pretty much.
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Jul 12, 2014 22:20
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Zidane headbutting Materazzi. I didn't care about football or even sports until 2010
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Jul 12, 2014 23:00
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Here's a couple, since I don't remember which came earliest: -Playing soccer in the same club as my older brother when I was about 6 or so. He was pretty good (he went on to play in his high school's soccer team), I was unmitigated poo poo but I still had fun. -My brother and I playing a FIFA videogame (I forget which) because he was always trying to beat me in it. I was pretty crappy at that too since I was still only 6 but my goalie was good enough that my bro decided to quit. You go, virtual goalie  -As far as actual FIFA matches go, my earliest memory would probably be in summer camp during the 2004 final. There were a few French kids in my group who were kind of annoying so I supported Italy out of spite since i didn't know any better about the teams. Everyone in the camp came together to watch the game in a relatively tiny TV. Everyone also had their cheeks painted in the Italian/French flags.
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Jul 12, 2014 23:14
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Anyone else here going to cop to having been to matches in the First Division, before Sky invented football? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVTayts24pM I still can't quite get used to the idea that Arsenal play lovely attractive football and all the neutrals want to see them do well. When I was young they were second only to Millwall in the "clubs that nobody likes" stakes, and the best skills on display were Tony Adams's mastery of the block tackle and the offside trap. And it had pretty much been like that ever since Herbert Chapman died.
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Jul 13, 2014 01:28
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I went to a game at Anfield and broke my cousins finger accidentally.
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Jul 13, 2014 01:45
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starksfergie posted:Actual old person memory.... I was 11 when my brother flew back to San Antonio from East Texas, we went out to lunch and then headed home to catch the 1982 World Cup Final on NBC. I remember it being something "special" for NBC Sports at the time. I vaguely recall the big orange "Naranjito" mascot being shown (not sure if that is a more recent memory though) and don't really recall any of the game itself other than the result. Didn't see football again until the 1986 World Cup but I watched a LOT of it on Univision and pretty much fell in love then. Have watched football pretty regularly since then. I even think the World Cup inspired an excellent friend of mine to put together a pickup team after the '98 World Cup, we were appropriately called the Worst Team Ever and I still have my jersey to prove it, heh That dude sounds cool as poo poo. Also sexy and like a funny poster. Also post the jersey I lost mine  My first memories playing were in 1st grade in the sand but I was good enough to play with the second graders. My first memory watching; I played with an Italian kid and his dad owned a pizza place in the mall across from the movie theaters and after games we would go there and he played video tapes of the 82 World Cup (this was 82) and I was mesmerized. Later that dude got thrown in jail for selling coke lol
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Jul 13, 2014 03:21
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My first memory is going to something called the "torneio inicio" in 1983 at Mineirao in Brazil. Torneio inicio was a single day preseason tournament where teams played matches with 15 minute halves. I've been to Mineirao some 200 times since, including a match where a 16 year old Ronaldo destroyed then-Uruguay national team captain Kanapkis.
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Jul 13, 2014 06:15
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxCbz-kRNhI Italy's Tassotti breaking Luis Enrique's nose with an elbow to the face in the WC 1994 quarter-final. Luis Enrique was bleeding all over his shirt, but the ref didn't see it and Italy went on to lose to Brazil in the final. This was in the last minute of extra time and Italy were 2-1 up, so the resulting penalty (and red card for Tassotti) would have given Spain a good chance to reach their first WC semi-final ever.
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straight up brolic posted:I watched a ton of football growing up with my uncles and played the sport, but I can't really remember anything too vividly because I smoked a ton of weed in highschool and killed my long term memory. The first "intense" memory that I have is watching the 2006 WC Final when I was 14. I remember pacing around the room during shootout and my family going loving mental and me being kind of sad because, despite being Italian, I idolized Zidane and wanted to see him succeed. Yo what the hell I thought you were like 35. My first memory is also from the '06 World Cup, but it was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKIGD52O9qQ Before this I was genuinely a "DONT talk to me about SPORTS" kid but I've not been able to stop watching or playing foot since that moment.
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Jul 14, 2014 05:40
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I remember 87-88 having a season ticket with my dad and going to most of the Millwall home games when we got promoted, then the following year in the first division finishing 20th WOOO, we also played Liverpool at least 3 times that season which was definitely weird to me since they were a BIG TEAM. Italia 90 was another big one then my next big memory is the final game at the old Den everyone storming the pitch and trying to chip out bricks to take as souvenirs. I'm old I guess.
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Jul 14, 2014 08:23
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Italia 90 definitely. I think I probably played in school before then, but just typical schoolyard games where everyone chases the ball like headless chickens. Italia 90 was amazing though, the whole country just went mental. In school we were all assigned a country from the World Cup to do a report on, I had Yugoslavia. We played against England and Kevin Sheedy scored. I can barely remember my own name sometimes, but I never forget that Packie Bonner saved a penalty from a Romanian lad called Timofte to put us into the quarter finals. First match I ever went to was a testimonial at Lansdowne Road around 1995, Liverpool v UCD. I think it was Ronnie Whelan's?
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Jul 14, 2014 09:49
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Trin Tragula posted:Anyone else here going to cop to having been to matches in the First Division, before Sky invented football? My dad took me to Sunderland matches in the late eighties, early nineties, but I was too young to remember anything from them now except a big wall of noise and fragments of football. The first time I can really definitely remember a specific moment was: bubblegumbo0 posted:My earliest memory was Roberto Baggio doing this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voT5W9Doa-s I remember this one pretty well too, as well as being 2 stickers off the complete album for 94/95. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiYt3iNWau0
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Jul 14, 2014 10:05
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Nottingham Forest 2-2 Liverpool, New Year's Day 1990, on the telly back when you could get the footer on terrestrial TV. The Match Live! Classic days. Two Ian Rush goals and I still picked United instead. Owned son.
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Jul 14, 2014 12:15
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hecko posted:Mine is that weird shadow at the Estadio Azteca in 1986 Holy poo poo, close to my first memory! I remember the final of 86 and my father being pissed off about the result. Watched on ABC 7 in New York.
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Jul 14, 2014 14:24
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I distinctly remember my first training session at 8, first game at 9, first trophy at 10 and first being taught how to kick a ball properly at 11. Non-stop parade of titles and cup-wins right up till I was 15. Perhaps I peaked too early. All I remember from Italia 90 was a little hot wheels car with the logo on it, but I had all the posters from Match and Shoot magazines for the 92 Euros. Die hard Denmark plastic, me. Genuine first memory is Leeds on the telly when I was maybe 5/6.
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Jul 14, 2014 15:33
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There wasn't a ton of football to watch growing up so my first footballing memory was playing recreational ball when I was something like 6 years old. Our team went undefeated that year and yes, we did get a trophy for that. Things came full circle when I was 14, in my last season of rec, when our team didn't win a single game. I'm pretty sure it was the latter experience much more so than the former which put me on the shameful path that led me here.
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Jul 14, 2014 16:18
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1994 World Cup - went to my hometown stadium to see Sweden lose to Brazil in the semi-final. Don't really remember how I felt about the match but I thought it was a little odd to see football played in the place where I had watched a lot of American football before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTDRGl19xU4
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Jul 14, 2014 18:32
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Probably watching Bulgaria v. Mexico in the 1994 World Cup. I had watched Mexico throughout the group stage but this match is the most memorable. I remember people chanting, "ˇBulgaria va probar, el chile nacional!" over and over. Mexico was eliminated in the penalties. It was a good start to a life of heartache. My grandfather hates football with a passion and I remember him getting so much joy out of Mexico's failures. Me as a young TM: "ˇBulgaria va probar, el ch-" Grandfather: "Inútiles! No sirven para nada!" Memories.
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Trin Tragula posted:Anyone else here going to cop to having been to matches in the First Division, before Sky invented football? I was part of a pre-match on-pitch presentation for Oldham Athletic vs Luton Town in the First Div - 11/4/1992. I had to look up the date but I knew it was Luton. There was some kind of school exchange thing and we had another primary school team come up from Luton and stay the night with us in the school. We smashed 'em in a friendly game and myself and their captain then went to the match and stood in the centre-circle before kickoff. I can't imagine how I'd feel if I ever found that on youtube.
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Jul 15, 2014 16:38
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Trin Tragula posted:Anyone else here going to cop to having been to matches in the First Division, before Sky invented football? We went to England with my team when I was 13 and went to Highbury to see Arsenal - Southampton in 92. Ian Wright scored a bunch of goals.
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Jul 15, 2014 16:43
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Last ever match in front of the North Bank, that was. Bet you didn't stay for the sit-in afterwards.
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Jul 15, 2014 22:58
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This was my first or second time at Lerkendal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGNJriFj5tQ
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Jul 15, 2014 23:20
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Bogan Krkic posted:My first memory is also from the '06 World Cup, but it was For some reason I have a really vivid memory of watching this game too. It's not my earliest, as I posted before, but it's kinda funny that I have such a strong memory of a match between two countries I have no connection to. Hello Towel fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Jul 15, 2014 |
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Jul 15, 2014 23:34
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MrL_JaKiri posted:I remember this one pretty well too, as well as being 2 stickers off the complete album for 94/95. Probably my earliest football memory is crying when this happened.
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Jul 15, 2014 23:40
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Deciding what to get for my first football shirt. I spent a very long time deciding between this: Or this:  Using this as a reference: 
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Jul 15, 2014 23:49
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My first memory was going to see Shelbourne vs Man U at Tolka Park sometime in 1995. Even though it was only a friendly, I was amazed that Shelbourne managed a 2-2 draw. Bruce, Irwin, the Neville's, Keane, McClair, Beckham and Scholes played that day and I was most excited about seeing Lee Sharpe. loving hell.
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Jul 16, 2014 00:05
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I remember Jack Charlton's Ireland beating Italy, and going crazy. Then I think David Batty and Faustino Asprilla playing for Newcastle and scoring a great goal. And leaving the pub at half time Champions League Final in 1999 because football was boring and United were going to lose, and the people I was with were all united fans and it was depressing to be around them. Then I don't think I actively paid attention to football until United beat Arsenal 8-2, and I started watching obsessively.
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Jul 16, 2014 13:48
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Von Linus posted:I remember Jack Charlton's Ireland beating Italy, and going crazy. The Ray Houghton goal?
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WanderingKid posted:The Ray Houghton goal?
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Jul 16, 2014 16:58
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I remember basically nothing of the game or the 94 world cup but I can remember that goal clear as day. Its weird.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HytwZoFp-o EDIT: and that loving 1994 Panini album, which I almost bloody completed, but I never got the Irish reserve GK (gently caress off Alan Kelly just gently caress right off). Also Baggio's penalty scarred me for life and I'm not even Italian. Football is a cruel, evil game. Wengy fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Jul 16, 2014 |
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Jul 16, 2014 17:51
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Wengy posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HytwZoFp-o You're Swiss, so that comes with the territory.
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Jul 16, 2014 22:24
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Eh, we're still doing better than the EMNT
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There's two for me. The earliest thing I can physically remember happening in football was Fowler scoring 5 goals against Fulham in the Cup, that was 1993. The most clear thing in my mind from that era though is definitely the Cantona kung-fu kick. I didn't see it live but I remember sitting on the floor watching it on the news and being unable to comprehend why he did that to that man. I don't remember the 94 World Cup but I do remember the computer game for the Sega Megadrive.
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Jul 18, 2014 01:00
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Vague memories of Manchester United v Middlesborough on TV. Then very clear memories of the 5-0 loss against Newcastle. I was sitting on a bean bag. The first actual game I would attend live in person wouldn't be until years later at a Serie C 0-0 bore draw. It was fantastic.
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Doing poo poo training drills in the park with my 10 year-old team and learning how to pass to the coach's kid (who was admittedly our best player).
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