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AFC Richmond — a fictional soccer club — sits at the top of Emmanuel Acho's similarity graph at 0.83, edging out real athletes and sports organizations. That placement sets the tone for a broad neighbor set that spans an unusually wide range of subcategories.
The shape is broad, meaning no single neighbor dominates and many sit well above baseline. The top five alone cross four subcategories: Fictional Characters (AFC Richmond, 0.83), Athletes (Tim Howard, 0.82; Clint Dempsey, 0.81; Christian Pulisic, 0.79), Sports Teams (U.S. Soccer MNT, 0.80), and Telecommunications (Google Fiber, 0.80). The soccer cluster — Howard, Dempsey, Pulisic, U.S. Soccer MNT, and Alexi Lalas — is the most coherent thread in the top 10, but it shares space with Smoothie King (0.79), Topgolf (0.78), sports journalist Dianna Russini (0.78), and Government Officials (President of the United States, 0.78). The TV show Ted Lasso (0.78) rounds out the ten — and its presence alongside AFC Richmond suggests the Ted Lasso universe registers as a coherent audience signal in its own right.
Acho's subcategory is Athletes, and several neighbors share it, but the top 10 as a whole is defined less by a single kind than by a wide-aperture audience that connects soccer fandom, sports media, consumer brands, and civic institutions simultaneously.
