Long story short, my son has really taken to playing football and I found out that CR7 is from Madeira, some of my family moved from Madeira to Hawaii over 100 years ago which is pretty cool as it is a small island not unlike the one that we are from. For this reason along with his obvious skill, my son and I became Ronaldo fans. We watched him win his 3rd consecutive CL crown last year and then watched him in the World Cup and then for Juve. Obviously being this far from Europe we don't have a "home team" so we followed CR7 to Juve and as I've posted in the Felix thread, it'd be cool if he signed with Juve so that we could follow his career as Ronaldo's eventually ends and we could become lifelong Juve fans.
I'll also add on that Football has never been a huge sport here in the US and until I started to see the level of skill, dedication and hard work that players have to put into the sport I did not have the respect for it that I do now. So I try to learn what I can to teach my son about the sport on off days from his club team and I am in turn becoming a fan of the sport.
I'll also add on that Football has never been a huge sport here in the US and until I started to see the level of skill, dedication and hard work that players have to put into the sport I did not have the respect for it that I do now. So I try to learn what I can to teach my son about the sport on off days from his club team and I am in turn becoming a fan of the sport.
I really didn't knew about that story of immigration to Hawaii... it seems that it was a thing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_immigration_to_Hawaii
