As soon as his obligations allow him, Prince William, heir to the throne of England, likes to go to Villa by to support his heart team: Aston Villa. Inevitably, the interested party could not miss the meeting of the Birmingham club with PSG, this Wednesday in the quarter-final first leg of the Champions League. But where does this passion for the villans come from?
“” King Charles, prince at the time, one day came to Villa Park to open a new platformnarrates the historian of the club Colin Abbott. According to some, Charles was given a villa t-shirt for William, who has thus become a fan. At school, everyone was for Liverpool or Manchester United, he wanted something different. He regularly comes to the stadium, like Tom Hanks… »»
A native of London, William spent most of his life in the capital and did not experience the glory time of Aston Villa, winner of the European Cup of Champion Clubs – the ancestor of the Champions League – in May 1982, a month before his birth. “”
A long time ago, at school, I put myself in football, thoroughly. I was looking for a club to support, and all my friends at school were either Manchester United fans, or fans of Chelseahe confides to the BBC. I had family friends who took me to my first Aston Villa match when I was younger, because they are big villa fans. It was against Bolton. I was sitting in the stands with my hat and I remember that Paul Merson was playing for villa at the time. I did not want to follow the ordinary teams, I wanted to have a team that was more in the middle of the painting, which could give me moments of roller coaster, more intense.
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Prince William's superstitions
Las for William, Villa has won nothing since the League Cup in 1996. And it was in the event that its fervor has strengthened, when the club was relegated to the second division in 2016. “ I didn't get too involved at the start. But relegation made me even more interested, strangely. To the point of involving all his little family. “” If I am alone at home with the children, I do not take a pint before the match, but I am a little superstitious on the place where I sit when I look at the gamehe admits. If we do not do very well, I start to move quickly enough in the house and I put the children in different positions hoping that it will run the chance …
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A method that has obviously convinced his eldest son, George, who accompanied him today in Paris to attend this quarter -final first leg of C1. “” Wherever it is, when Aston Villa plays, he stops everything to follow the match », Breathe the former rugby player Mike Tindall, who joined the royal family by marrying the granddaughter of the deceased queen Elisabeth II, Zara Phillips. “”
Obviously, they see how passionate I am and they watch the matches with meslips William about his children. I try to share this love a little. They wear villa jerseys and ask me to come to matches with them. »»
