2 The Good Ol’ Days

When I was a kid, soccer was televised on Vietnamese national television. There were English Premier League and Spanish La Liga matches on every weekend and UEFA Champions League games on during the middle of the week. In the summer, they televised the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Euro.

I remember that after I started watching footy, I quickly learned all of the team’s names, the players and who did each of them play played for at that time. I also loved to read sports newspapers in the morning to see the scores of the night before’s matches (The Internet was not popular in Vietnam when I was a kid, of course).

We moved to our current house in 2003. Back then, our house did not have cable, so my dad often took me to my uncle’s house to watch the Saturday/Sunday earliest Premier League match. Our house finally have cable TV in 2006, and this has allowed me to watch games at home since then.

During this early time, I also fell in love with Manchester United - an English football club.