#80 New to soccer? Things to consider when picking a soccer team to support
Soccer 101
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🗓️ 5 November 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode, it's semi-strange topic for Graham and Ryan and a more relatable topic for Joe and Taylor: how do I choose a club to support? We discuss how we each came to support the teams we do, the things to consider when trying to decide who to support, the importance (or unimportance, depending on your perspective), and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Soccer 101, the podcast where we tackle the fundamentals of the beautiful game. |
| 0:16.1 | Soccer is partisan in its nature and most of us develop our appreciation of the sport through a love |
| 0:21.2 | for a particular team. |
| 0:23.3 | But how do you pick your team? |
| 0:25.0 | Why is my team great and why does your team suck? |
| 0:27.5 | Why do we develop such deep feelings for an arbitrary team of athletes wearing one particular |
| 0:31.8 | crest on their shirts? |
| 0:33.9 | We're going to be answering those questions. |
| 0:35.4 | We being myself, Ryan Bailey and Mr. Taylor Rockwell. Hey, buddy. Good to talk to you. You too, sir. Also here, Joe Lowry. Hello, Joe. Hello, Ryan. And rounding out the pack, the man with the most shirts in the world, Graham Rutman. Hello, Ryan. Is this a podcast where we get to tell people what to do? Because if so, I'm very much looking forward to that. |
| 0:55.6 | It is. Strap in, listener, you're about to get some rules laid upon you. No, just kidding. |
| 0:59.9 | We're just going to discuss how one picks a soccer team and sort of the accoutrements around that, Graham. |
| 1:06.5 | I'll start off by saying, by the way, that in my opinion, liking a team is dumb. |
| 1:12.6 | It's completely arbitrary that we pick a team over another, is it not? |
| 1:17.1 | Maybe we pick it geographically, maybe we pick it for some of the reasons we're going to outline later on in this podcast. |
| 1:22.1 | But in most cases, we're just following a business. |
| 1:25.4 | The players change constantly. |
| 1:26.9 | They have no loyalty to the team. And, you know, we support teams quite often nowhere near where we even live. None of it makes sense, Taylor. Why are we doing this? What's the point of anything? It's weird to ask a person who grew up a soccer fan versus a person who grew up a fan of another sport. Because I think a lot of Americans would say, yeah, that is kind of dumb. |
| 1:46.5 | Because if you're a chiefs fan, chances are you grew up in the Kansas City metropolitan area, be it Kansas or Missouri. |
| 1:53.3 | But I think, and so there is a resonance to the entire city getting behind a team. |
| 1:58.7 | There is something to that. |
| 1:59.9 | There is this like collective unity that a team is something to that. There is this like collective |
| 2:00.9 | unity that a team is supposed to represent. And I think that is what like Manchester United |
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