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I dunno where my origin story is. I always liked the international tournaments even when I was a kid, but watching club soccer (using that word very intentionally) as a kid just wasn't much of a priority. Easy enough to do when you grow up in the United States and this stuff was all on, like, Fox Soccer Channel and GolTV. I caught the odd Champions League game every now and then - I think my first CL game was actually the 2005 Liverpool/Milan final - and was interested, but those games also were usually 2:45pm ET kickoffs and, well, I was still in school at that time up through 2008. It wasn't until my parents extended their cable package in 2012 to one that included FSC that I ever really started watching this sport more on a club level, and even that was mostly just the Premier League and the CL.
It was probably the next season, in the '13-'14 season, when I started branching out and seeking out other leagues online. And while I wasn't and never will be a Chelsea fan, there was always something about Mourinho that I liked about his rascal ways. I'm a youngest sibling so it's easy to see why that might be. Reading up on Mourinho, seeing his background at Inter, seeing what his Inter did against Barcelona in 2010 - I've always had a visceral hatred towards Barcelona - and it just all sort of came together for me with Inter. They just appealed to me in a way that other clubs didn't. I didn't seek this club out and, knowing what I know now, I never would've willingly signed up for this amount of abuse, but what's done is done.
Despite all of that, I didn't make a huge effort to watch every game each week until probably around 2015-'16 or so. So, whatever the case may be, my "birth certificate" is somewhere in the mid-2010s.
It was probably the next season, in the '13-'14 season, when I started branching out and seeking out other leagues online. And while I wasn't and never will be a Chelsea fan, there was always something about Mourinho that I liked about his rascal ways. I'm a youngest sibling so it's easy to see why that might be. Reading up on Mourinho, seeing his background at Inter, seeing what his Inter did against Barcelona in 2010 - I've always had a visceral hatred towards Barcelona - and it just all sort of came together for me with Inter. They just appealed to me in a way that other clubs didn't. I didn't seek this club out and, knowing what I know now, I never would've willingly signed up for this amount of abuse, but what's done is done.
Despite all of that, I didn't make a huge effort to watch every game each week until probably around 2015-'16 or so. So, whatever the case may be, my "birth certificate" is somewhere in the mid-2010s.