European soccer in Thailand

To say that European football leagues have influenced Thai culture would be an understatement. You cannot walk down a street without bumping into a top flight strip from either England, Spain, Italy or some form of international footy fabric.
It was during a wet afternoon, and I was having a quiet Singha or three with a mate, when a large ice lorry turned up to offload its ice to a bar on the other side of the road. A Thai driver got out wearing a hugging Ronaldinho (Barcelona) shirt. He went to the rear of the lorry and flipped the shutter up. This is incorrect. No health and safety in Thailand, so the shutter was well and truly already up. Two comrades appeared from the depth of ice in the lorry, one was attired in a Frank Lampard (Chelsea) shirt, and the other was pretending to be Kaka (Milan). They jumped down and started shuffling bags of ice into a cart, which looked ready to break at any time, and then a Rooney (Man Utd) shirt strolled confidently out of the bar to greet them. We thought this could not continue, but the five fold was complete when Rooney shouted something in Thai to deep inside the bar, which fired up another character who approached the door. Me and my mate were trying to guess the club that he would be wearing, but the new guy trumped us by wearing a Michael Ballack (Germany) international shirt. It was a commentators wet dream, and we were thoroughly enjoying watching Ronaldinho throw bags to Frank Lampard, who passed them to Kaka, who put the ice into the cart. Wayne Rooney then took the cart to the bar door, and it was all Ballack from there on in. Do Thai's watch european soccer? I'm guessing it may have have crossed their lives at some point.