Wearing the team colors

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[FoxyOxy]

As a big sports fan, I have to say that I absolutely love spotting Kiva borrowers around the world sporting (ha! no pun intended...honestly!!!) hats / shirts / flags of various well-known (and lesser-known) sports teams.  I personally always feel drawn to any borrower wearing a Barça top for instance (Força Barça!). I look forward to the day I see a borrower wearing a Penn State baseball cap or top and I hereby swear that if I ever spot a borrower wearing an SAFC top, I pledge to fully fund their entire loan myself - as long as it's under $500

I am creating this thread for fellow sports fans who also love spotting the team colors.  I will share here the photo I saw this evening that made me finally decide to start this thread:



My first thought on seeing this photo was "Awwwww! What a cute little thing!".  This was closely followed by "is that a Bayern Münich shirt that guy's wearing there?!"

[Peter S]

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I hereby swear that if I ever spot a borrower wearing an SAFC top, I pledge to fully fund their entire loan myself - as long as it's under $500
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that Wikipedia article has been vandalized by a Newcastle fan (no surprise there), and currently begins:
Sunderland Association Football Club is a terrible football club based in makemland

Great idea for a thread.  I also like spotting borrowers wearing team shirts.  There tend to be quite a few Chelsea supporters in West Africa for obvious reasons (Didier Drogba for one).  I think the most surprising, which I didn't keep a note of, was a Kenyan borrower who was wearing an NHL jersey, Boston Bruins I think.  Not much ice hockey played in Kenya.

And it's not just team apparel.  Check out Abbas Bangura's rear bumper...

[FoxyOxy]

that Wikipedia article has been vandalized by a Newcastle fan (no surprise there), and currently begins:
Sunderland Association Football Club is a terrible football club based in makemland

I'm sure that happens all the time.  My mum was a dyed-in-the-wool Sunderland supporter while my dad was 100% Newcastle

[Peter S]

Juan Puescas Paiva from Peru, wearing a Fiorentina (Italy, Serie A) shirt.

[Diane R]

As a MotoGP fan, I tend to notice posters of motorcycle racers on the walls of repair shops (after which I support the proprietors' loans, as you can see ). While this isn't exactly "wearing the team colors", it is sports-related and catches my eye. Two examples:

http://www.kiva.org/lend/14687

Edgar

http://www.kiva.org/lend/37633

Hugo


(And although I'm not a basketball fan, while going through some older loans to find these, I stumbled across Kobe Bryant's jersey:
http://www.kiva.org/lend/221453

Jon-Jon)


--Diane.

[wind5001]

Peter,

in Kenya I literally saw dozens of these busses sporting the colours for ManU, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool...in that order of number of appearances. It was quite the sight!

[wind5001]

My first thought on seeing this photo was "Awwwww! What a cute little thing!".  This was closely followed by "is that a Bayern Münich shirt that guy's wearing there?!"

And that would have been a reason for me to actively NOT fund this man...

[wind5001]

I've done jersey- or team-based lending before, too...check out this clever reference to Franz Beckenbauer!



http://www.kiva.org/lend/20775

[FoxyOxy]

http://www.kiva.org/lend/304283

Any PSV Eindhoven fans?  Guillermo from Mexico is a fan and is looking a bit like he's expecting a direct free kick

[carien]

Here is a big fan and a fan for many years my brothers's son named Ralf after Ralf Edstrom who played there 30+ years ago.

I just send a message to team Netherlands I don't know if we have much fans on the team but if I look where they come from it should