When I first started getting interested in football... my friends told me about the Premier League and top football clubs like Real Madrid (by the way, they are all Real Madrid fans). But I turned my attention to Liverpool... this was in those days when Liverpool was without any cups.
And looking back, I was not disappointed in my choice, because when Real wins a trophy, its fans do not get as much pleasure as the fans of a team that is getting better from year to year.
Football is magic in this way.
If you started and loved a club or a national team by whatever reasons, you will never stop loving that club or that national team. I can not explain this fact by myself and I see it in my friends too. They love a club many years ago and now they still love that club like Arsenal or Manchester United even those clubs were in troubles, did not win titles many years.
I believe your story says the same thing.