Hello, Roderick. News of you having been chosen as the best player of the championship collected record breaking number of comments at the biggest Russian sports site Championat.com.
The exact number of comments is 59226. But what does count is that thanks to the news your fanclub in Russia was established.
25 people, your loyal supporters, are backing you in distant Russia. Among them are guys from many Russian cities and regions: Bryansk, Belgorod, Moscow, Ufa, Astrakhan, Stary Oskol… You are known in Chechnya, Saratov, and many more Russian a city.
It’s natural you might wonder about the reason of such an unexpected popularity, because just now you are not yet at the same level with such star players as Pele or Maradona.
I’ll explain: there was some sort of competition at the aforementioned site. Two groups of supporters commented on two news. One of the news was of your title, the other was of St. Luis NHL hockey club. The goal was to get the highest number of comments on a given period of time. And we won despite our opponents being bigger in quantity.
Unfortunately our comments were deleted by site administration on technical reasons. But the screenshots made by some of your supporters witness great effort that was put in to win.
The major part of those who participated in that competition didn’t join our fan-club, and it’s natural. Not too many people are interested in Malta Soccer Championship outside your country. But there are some folks who showed real interest, and to whom you really mean a lot. While commenting, they wrote poems about you, some chants, they vividly expressed themselves. This sudden affection is very hard to explain.
Though Valetta is no superclub, we will support it with all our hearts, and support you personally as well.
One man named Vladislav Gontar wrote anthem for Russian speaking supporters of your club. If you want, I might give you the link to it and offer its translation into English.
As of now your fan club is based in internet entirely – in Russian analogue of Facebook called InTouch. We are people of modest financial status, and will hardly ever come to Malta to support you there. But that doesn’t in any sense lessen our love for you and your team.
It’s not too easy to be your fan here, we almost have no opportunities to watch matches of Malta Championship. So we have to be content with brief highlights and news from the official club site.
But whatever the obstacles we will go on supporting you. Thank you very much for your playing!
With all the best wishes,
Vladislav Ivanov, chief of Russian Fan Club of Roderick Briffa and FC Valetta
Нужно только сверить написание имен и названий
Запятые тоже могут либо стоять, где попало, либо отсутствовать там, где необходимо