"For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer, we played football outside"
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The intent is connective tissue. “Football” here isn’t primarily competition; it’s a ritual that organizes intimacy. The phrase “we came together” frames sport as an excuse to synchronize lives, the way certain families use cooking, holidays, or a weekly show to keep everyone in the same room. The subtext is a soft rebuttal to the isolating narrative of fame: before the fashion industry turned her into a global surface, there was a local, bodily, unposed version of childhood.
There’s also something culturally European in the understatement. She doesn’t mythologize the sport; she domesticates it. “In the summer we played… outside” signals a pre-digital texture of life - unstructured time, neighborhood space, the easy physicality of kids making their own entertainment. It’s nostalgia, but not the syrupy kind. It’s a reminder that identity often begins in ordinary repetitions, and that even the most photographed people sometimes reach for the same proof of self: a simple scene where everyone was still there.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Schiffer, Claudia. (2026, February 18). For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer, we played football outside. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/for-me-football-always-meant-that-we-came-86352/
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Schiffer, Claudia. "For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer, we played football outside." FixQuotes. February 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/for-me-football-always-meant-that-we-came-86352/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"For me, football always meant that we came together as a family and, in the summer, we played football outside." FixQuotes, 18 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/for-me-football-always-meant-that-we-came-86352/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.



