Real Madrid (H) | CL SF 2nd Leg | Post-Match Thread

Bay Area Blue 93 said:
It's been said on here before, but it really hit home this week. The combination of superstar players like KDB, Haaland, and I'll even argue Grealish, plus City playing in high-profile matches like the semifinal vs. Real, is raising our global profile exponentially.

Here in the Bay Area, I'm running into more and more City fans or at least City-aware folks. Examples: I went to my son's middle school open house on Tuesday night and two different kids were wearing City shirts. No Rag sightings anywhere, though I still see Liverpool gear around more than I'd care to. Then, I went to a local German restaurant/pub to watch the match on Wednesday. While I may have been the only true City fan in the bunch, everybody watching was either for City or against Real, which is truly a first in my experience. Finally, a friend of my high school age daughter's came over to our house last night and saw that I was wearing my City kit. He excitedly asked if I had been able to watch the entire match, as he had only been able to watch the highlights at that point since he was in school during the match.

When I used to coach my kids 5 or 10 years ago, I would always get asked which team I supported. Before I could finish "Manchester . . . ", they would finish the sentence with United rather than City. One year, as a coaches' gift, the team mother mistakenly bought me a United top, which I indignantly refused to accept until they gave me a receipt so that I could return it and buy a City jacket.

It finally feels like the tide is turning, and tellingly, it is the kids who are most likely to support us. We just decided as a family to go to Las Vegas the week of the UCL final. I'm thoroughly looking forward to finding a pro-City venue there where my son and I can watch City finally capture the "holy grail".
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Just flew back from Paris and had to go to the back of the plane before departure. Lad, about 16, sitting on the aisle seat wearing a City shirt. I say, “Nice shirt, mate!” and he said something back to me in a foreign accent, which caught me off guard as he looked American, and it dawned on me that he was clearly French, flying out of Paris (where PSG rule the roost), yet was wearing a City shirt to fly to the USA! I realized this is not my old City anymore!

Our reach, our football, and becoming a CHOICE of people from all over the world is transforming both the club and its fan base across the globe.

Love it!!!
 
Dial M 4 Mercer said:
And to think we were all concerned at the beginning of the season that the team
would be weaker following the sale of Jesus, Sterling and Zinchenko and subsequently with the loan of Cancelo.
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Don’t thing Haaland, Alvarez & Akanji have been too shabby as replacements and not forgetting Ake staring at full-back.
 
Bay Area Blue 93 said:
It finally feels like the tide is turning, and tellingly, it is the kids who are most likely to support us.
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I'd like to see a poll among U14 fans in England: guess the percentage of the kids supporting City is significant. The likes of Haaland and Grealish have attracted many new supporters. Another decade of success and City will have a huge following among the younger generations.
 
Gray said:
"beaucoup de bisous"
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