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A couple of Norwegian Liverpool FC fans showed their devotion to the club - by calling their daughter YNWA.

Little YNWA, pronounced Yee-Nwa, is also already a huge fan and her proud mum Eirin Isabel Iversen plans to bring the little girl to watch the Reds play to celebrate her fifth birthday this May.

Eirin told the ECHO from her home in North Norway: “She is so excited to come and see them play. Her favourite player is Steven Gerrard, but he’s leaving now - she’s very sad about that.

“She sits and watches all the games and cheers along, she’s very proud."

Eirin said she “tested the name” and talked it through with YNWA’s grandparents before making the unusual decision.

She said: “Her dad suggested 'Gerrard', before we knew if it was a boy or girl.

"It would hardly have worked so well for a girl, and I suggested “YNWA”. The more we talked about it with the grandparents, the more it sank in, and we decided."

YNWA proudly wears her team’s shirt and may grow up to be as big a fan as her committed dad Tor-Eric, who flies the 1,000 miles to watch the team play a couple of times a year.

Eirin added: “Football is a lot of emotion. It’s all pretty much between victory and defeat, it’s a lot of commitment to be a big fan.”

The football fan even joked that if her daughter’s future boyfriend isn’t an LFC fan, the family may have to have a “meeting."

Family friend Christian Møller is chairman of Liverpool’s Norwegian supporters club, and said that another Reds-mad Norwegian couple had called their child ‘Tia’ (This is Anfield).

Christian added: “It is not the first time I hear about a child who has got its name from football. It’s a bit unusual, perhaps.”

She told the Norwegian press that another child was called Oliver, with the middle name Paul - becoming “O Liverpål”.

It’s not just the Reds that bring out such passion, with a Christmas Day baby in 2012 being named after her mum’s beloved Everton.

Little Elliott Francis Cain was born to her EFC-mad mum Katie Brown in the early hours of Christmas Day.

Katie, from Croxteth, said: “He was definitely born a blue."

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