What got me to start a log was a question about my football preferences
My absolutely biggest love is Benfica, from Lisbon. They get much of the credit for my Portuguese. I actually remember the very day I became a fan - 21.03.2009. They were playing the league cup final, Russian guy Izmailov was playing for the opponents (Sporting), yet after he came off I wanted Benfica to win. And they did, although my stream died and I didn't see it.
I've supported Fiorentina slightly longer, and I kinda began because I wanted to follow an Italian team, and this is the one my Finnish-Italian friend Leopejo supports
It surely didn't hurt that I really like Adrian Mutu and the colour purple.
The only team I can watch instead of one of these is Real Madrid, although I'm reluctant to call myself a Madridista. When I first started watching club football in 2008-2009 I tried to support Barcelona
although I developed negativity towards them after the whole stuff with Zlatan and Villa. I am definitely a fan of Luka Modrić though, and my Spanish has improved significantly after his transfer to Spain
Generally I tend to go for the red[-white] teams - Spartak Moscow, Manchester United, Aalborg (from Denmark). I'm supporting Aalborg ever since they played in the Europa League against Man City, lost 0:2 away but won at home, only to lose on penalties. I'm officially supporting United since City's 90+3 title-winning goal in 2012
Prior to that I tried to support Spurs in England, because of Pavlyuchenko who remains one of my biggest favourites. I'm still following him at Kuban Krasnodar
I also listen to most of Napoli's matches because of
this commentator, and I used to watch them when Cavani played there but not much anymore. Other individual players I follow as much as possible include David Luiz, Di María, Zlatan (I'm lucky with all four at PSG now
), Luca Toni, Mutu (he's playing for Pune City in India
), Montolivo, Cerci, Forlán, sometimes Ćorluka, Gilardino, Coentrão, Falcao. I'd love to see Vidić and Tymoschuk again but I don't think I ever will.
My
Super Challenge stats also show most matches I watch. And if anyone's here to argue that you can only support one team, or that you should go to all/most matches at the stadium, please don't. (the two teams I've seen live at the stadium are the Russian NT (vs Germany in 2009) and Spartak's youth team) To me these arguments are as ridiculous as telling me to focus on one language at a time