Post#1712 » by Nbafanatic » Tue Dec 8, 2015 12:35 pm
Wow, I've just found this thread now, amazing read. I don't post much, but I love to read a lot of the smarts discussions in this Forum.
I'm 34 years old from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil , and as you may now, here soccer rules, and it's really to an extreme where only soccer is really taken seriously as a professional sport. Most of the people who follow soccer are die hard fans or close to it, but they know next to nothing about the other sports in general, it's really curious. Only when we had some outlier like Gustavo Kuerten, or the greats volleyball teams from the past decades people start to try and understand a bit of those sports. Volleyball is the second sport here really, the sport moved it up past automobilism after Ayrton Senna's tragical death in 94.
I used to be a big soccer fan, I root for Grêmio here, one of the 10 greatest soccer clubs in the country, with 2 Libertadores titles, one world title and 6 national championships. But some FIFA laws from the late 90's along the brazilian Pele law really freed up the players to go overseas, interrupting the better development of the younger players and weakening substantially brazilian soccer, so Brazil is not anymore the powerhouse it used to be. Quality of play matters a lot to me, so my interest for the sport decreased as well.
I've been an nba fan since the 93 finals, when I saw Bulls - Suns go to battle, and my interest for the sport only increases until today. In the mid to late 2000's, I was able to download a lot games from Sportscene, and I was able to do an extensive eye test research mostly on the 80's, the Lakers, Celtics, Pistons and Jordan's Bulls until their first three peat. I had the time of my life watching those old games, God bless the internet.
I tried to play basketball when I was 17 in 1998, but it was too tough of a proposition for me, bodywise. I'm 5,7 now, and about 5,5 at the time, with almost no hops at all, (my vertical may not reach even 20 inches). Had some good speed, I could hit the wide open jump shot as well, but creating was really hard. Anyway, today I do some jogging every now and then, but to play it's impossible for me, nowadays.
