AmericanBlue36
Player Valuation: £25k
I am from Nashville, TN (USA) currently and grew up in Atlanta, GA (where a new MLS team was formed). I coach American football and baseball at a Catholic High School in Nashville. In addition to that, I am a video editor for Yahoo! and specialize in college football recruiting news. I ran across Jdawg on our forum and he led me here. I became an Evertonian about 5 years ago. For most of my life, I had never really liked football (soccer) because it seemed like a weak sport, and where I'm from, the youth leagues were mostly terrible. I was into American football, baseball, golf and basketball. I started becoming interested in soccer, forgive my American term, when I started playing FIFA on playstation. Then I watched the World Cup in 2006 and said that I would support U.S. Soccer and leave it at that. Well, then I watched the Champions league final the next year, I believe Man U beat Chelsea. From there I got hooked, I began to think about finding a team to support. I went through the list: Man U, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Barcelona, Real Madrid, AC Milan, Celtic all teams I had played with in FIFA. I decided that I wanted to pick a side with an American, and at the same time, I joined an adult league and became the keeper. I got pretty good at for just picking up the game 1 month prior to the season. Ultimately I looked at the top 4 in England and decided I didn't really connect and then I watched Everton play Fulham. Howard vs. Dempsey at Goodison Park. Atmosphere was electric and the fans were jacked up the entire way. I think Everton even lost that day. It was there I had decided that Everton was my team and they even had an American star, Tim Howard and later picked up Landon Donovan on loan. When I can afford it, I'm coming to Goodison and wearing the Blue. Thanks to Jdawg, I can come here, learn, and have a place where I can read about Everton. Great to be here and let's get that UEFA CL spot...
