Why do you play football?

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Benn pondering... on what was it that made me start playing football... and so the question arises.

Going back to the point where you first started to play football, what was it that motivated you? Was it the game? Was it to be part of the a group / the group? Peer pressure? Family background?

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I play/started playing because I found I was awesome at it.

We will never fully decide who has won the football.

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Growing up in England in the late 60s early 70s - it's just what you did back then. Everyone had a ball of some sort and you could always have a kick around (back alley, park, school grounds).

Can't recall any peer pressure but it was so ubiquitous that it was easy to do. Don't think there was any ostracism if someone didn't play either.

"Phoenix till they lose"

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

It makes me smile.

Three for me, and two for them.

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Shoot! magazine has alot to answer for

Lineker, Shilts, Hoddle, Waddle,

Glory Days- it was either that or becoming a rockstar and I chose the smell of linament over doobie, alas to no avail!

Salmon swim upstream

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Salmon07 wrote:

Shoot! magazine has alot to answer for

Lineker, Shilts, Hoddle, Waddle,

Glory Days- it was either that or becoming a rockstar and I chose the smell of linament over doobie, alas to no avail!

^this

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At primary school (Mt Cook) that's all we played, every lunchtime, all year round. It is an inner city school so we didn't have a grass field, our football pitch was asphalt, plenty of skinned knees & elbows.

As for Shoot Magazine, in my days I was reading about Trevor Brooking, Frank Lampard Snr, Ray Clemence, Kevin Keegan, Billy Bremner, Pat Jennings, Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness...to name some of the legends.

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It's what my mates played, alongside basketball which I also played regularly. Didn't follow it at all, didn't even know competitive football existed, even with the Wollongong Wolves up the road and the Canberra Cosmos coming into existance shortly before I moved to NZ. Quit both shortly after moving to NZ (long story) and haven't played since.

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I wanted to play rugby as a kid, but all the kids tended to play football (and I wasn't the biggest kid) so that's what dad signed me up for. Ended up switching to hockey at college. Then reverted back to football when I got invited in to a team as a student down in Dunedin. Moved back up though and haven't been able to find the time since.

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I don't, currently do athletics, been to nationals for sprinting so thought I'd stick with that, but when I go up to Wellington for uni next year I'm hoping to start.

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Feverish wrote:

Salmon07 wrote:

Shoot! magazine has alot to answer for

Lineker, Shilts, Hoddle, Waddle,

Glory Days- it was either that or becoming a rockstar and I chose the smell of linament over doobie, alas to no avail!

^this

Not all glory days - I saw spurs play Swansea at the Vetch, Hoddle scored a penalty, but Spurs lost 2-1.

Pretty sure that determined my support would not be fairweather and it also got me kicking a ball around on the street all at the same time

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Started when I was early 4. So, I guess Family.

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Feverish wrote:

Salmon07 wrote:

Shoot! magazine has alot to answer for

Lineker, Shilts, Hoddle, Waddle,

Glory Days- it was either that or becoming a rockstar and I chose the smell of linament over doobie, alas to no avail!

^this

I can understand wanting to shoot Hoddle, but the Waddler? He worked in sausage factory you know?

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For the unbearable agony I feel the next day, all over my body.

I started when I was maybe 8ish. I started as striker and season by season I went back all the way to keeper. I finished when I was about 12.

I got back into it a couple of years back because I was playing a ridiculous amount of Fifa on the Playstation/Xbox and was inspired to get on the field myself. Currently I'm playing for the mighty Thames social team, but I'm going to need a team in Auckland when I move up. I'm sh*t though.

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Play for Birko.

Three for me, and two for them.

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over 15 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

for the winning

ive got a song that wont take long, Adelaide are rubbish.. the second verse is same as the first.. ADELAIDE ARE RUBBISH

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3 and you're in, double cuppies at the park - just what we did

watching Hull City and playing whenever i could

then NZ and playing at school and a bit (on and off - tragically) afterwards

Shoot era = Keegan, Chivers, Best, Ball, Colin Bell, Banksie (the hero not the Jafa headcase) Emlyn Hughes etc

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I don't play but when I play for fun, its because I just 2 foot everyone.

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First club to come visit my school was Upper Hutt Football club so they roped me and a group of my friends in (think they were the biggest junior club in New Zealand at the time). Considered changing when I got to college but knew I would be able to play at a higher level if I stuck to football.

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I just live for the glamour that is Masters Div one football!
Oh that and the Deep heat and the Voltarine !!

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tigers wrote:

Oh Tigers!

"Phoenix till they lose"

Posting 97% bollox, 8% lies and 3.658% genuine opinion.

Genuine opinion: FTFFA

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As a keeper often I wonder why I play. It can be real sh*t, but then sometimes it can be a great feeling to play well and get a win.

Not 100% sure but I enjoy it and thats the main reason I think.

All Whites | Phoenix | Baggies

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My primary school was and still is football mad, then being in England during the 2002 World Cup inspired me.

You know we belong together...

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Its like a drug to me.

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All my mates were into rugby and i got sick of them going on about it so I decided to play football. Funny thing is that a few years later, they were all playing football as well.

78 FA Cup final was my first which got me hooked on the Gunners even though we lost to the Tractor Boys. Damn you Roger Osbourne.

Shoot era - Clemence, Shilton, Keegan, Brady, Stapleton, Francis, Gemmill, Birtles, McQueen, Jordan, Dalglish, MacDonald, Anderson, McIlroy, Mariner

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I have really enjoyed readng some of this.

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