Aston Villa Football Club - California Supporters

Monday, September 24, 2012

Implosion vs. Southampton?

The first half of the match was great. Villa looked much like where they left off last week with Swansea. Bent scored and we enjoyed a nil-1 lead. But something "cracked" at halftime and a different Villa team took the pitch. The defense slipped back into their "let's try not to lose" form and Southampton took complete advantage of it.

It's still early. Let's bring things back together again vs. West Brom.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Villa 2-nil over Swansea

What a game! Holman continues to be a workhorse that never stops running. Lowton's goal was amazing! Big Brad was again brilliant in net. And what about Benteke?? He looked unstoppable and he definitely will help open up some things for Benty. Things are really looking up! UTV!

Monday, September 3, 2012

The First Point of the Season!

Villa played a much better game yesterday to draw with Newcastle 1-1. Overall - the passing game, possession, defensive aggressiveness, and attack is night an day compared to last year (and the last 2 weeks). Hoping for much more of this in the coming weeks. Guzan looked good in goal and nice connection between Bannan and Clark for the lone Villa goal. Stephen Ireland is playing well as the central playmaker.

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Great News about Stan

Wonderful news about Stiliyan!

Positive News for Petrov in battle against leukaemia

Stan Petrov

Friday, July 27, 2012

Portland Invasion Complete

What an amazing journey! AVFC California members invaded Portland, OR and supported the boys in claret and blue well before the match, during the match, and late into the night after the match. Our charity raffle for Acorns was an amazing success raising $1,055. It was great seeing and meeting so many people, especially other AVFC California members.

Open training was on 23 July 2012, the night before the match. We all enjoyed it and especially had a great time meeting players and participating in Ian Taylor's Q &A.

Acorn's Raffle: Our raffle for Acorns was successful. Aston Villa, Portland Timbers, and AVFC California members donated the raffle prizes ranging from Lions Club necktie to a 2012-13 team-signed Villa shirt!

Pre-Match/Match

Villa supporters started at Kelly's Olympian and then The Bitter End later in the afternoon where we joined the Timbers Army. We filled Section 223 - the away supporters section at Jeld Wen Field.

Monday, July 23, 2012

Open Training - Portland

Several California Lions Club members enjoyed attending Villa's open training session at Jen Weld Field tonight.

Saturday, July 21, 2012

Historical Ties Between Timbers and the Villa

How Did You Become a Villa Supporter?

"I wonder how many fans are actually originally from Birmingham or surrounding area. I am and I'm always interested if someone isn't from near Villa Park, why did they pick Villa as the team to follow." .............................................................................................. "I like Rick's story, he picked Villa as they were 'sponsored' by Acorns Children's Hospice at the time, a cause close to Rick's heart."..................................................................................................................... "I was born in Solihull (12 miles south of Villa Park) and my older bro turned me into a Villa supporter"................................................................................................................ "I am originally from Vauxhall (Birmingham B7) and have followed the Villa since my dad took me to see a game at Villa Park on my 4th birthday. I was a season ticket holder at VP from 1968 until I moved over here twelve years ago."........................................................................................................................"I am from Halesowen which is right next to the black country. Which is tesco carrier bag territory. However my dad is from the city and he always took me and my brother to villa games. I was a season ticket holder in the holte untill 2007 when I moved out here."......................................................................................................................."So why do I support Villa if I've never been to Birmingham? That's a very good question that I've asked myself many times over the years. When I started following the league almost everyone was a Liverpool fan for the same reason almost everyone now is a United, City, or Chelsea fan. Not being someone who follows the crowd I wanted to support a team that was unique and different. When I was a kid, Andy Gray was one of my favorite players and I used to read his columns in Shoot magazine about playing for Villa and thought a lot of the things about the team were unique: the team name, colors, and specially the history."..................................................................................................................."Born just a couple of miles from Villa park, with my father, mother, grandparents and more than half of my extended family with claret and blue blood (you can work out who the rest of that motley crew supported SOTC) it was written in the stars that I was going to be Villa through and through."...................................................................................................................I was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. Played the game for 30 some odd years and have been a Villa fan all my life. I have seen 2 live games(both losses, but a great atmosphere none the less). My grandfather was a steward at Villa Park for many years. My father and brother are members of the Canadian Villa fan club in Toronto. I'm here in the central valley, and know of couple of villa fans here in Fresno................................................................................................................