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The top 10 neighbors for The Athletic Soccer span podcasts, journalists, athletes, actors, a B2B brand, and a news publisher — with no single neighbor pulling far ahead of the rest. Similarity scores run from 0.90 down to 0.86, a narrow band that signals a flat audience shape rather than any concentrated overlap.
The two closest neighbors are both podcasts: Binge Mode at 0.90 and Men in Blazers at 0.89. Soccer athlete Megan Rapinoe (0.89) is the only sports figure in the top three, and the only neighbor whose subject matter directly overlaps with soccer coverage. From there, the cluster diversifies quickly: The Ringer (0.87) is the one other website in the top 10 — the same subcategory as The Athletic Soccer itself — while Mina Kimes (0.87) and Audie Cornish (0.87) represent journalists from sports and public radio respectively. Sprout Social (0.86), a B2B brand, and Dan Levy (0.86), an actor, round out a neighbor set that has no obvious thematic center.
Tallying subcategories across the top 10: two podcasts, two journalists, two athletes, one website, one actor, one B2B brand, and one news publisher — a genuinely mixed composition with no dominant kind. The soccer-adjacent neighbors (Rapinoe, Alexi Lalas at 0.86) share space with public-radio journalists and a cosmetics-adjacent actor, which points to an audience whose shape is defined less by sport than by a broader profile that cuts across media, culture, and civic interest.
This flat, cross-kind pattern suggests The Athletic Soccer draws an audience whose composition resembles a wide range of culturally engaged media consumers rather than a narrowly sport-focused one.
