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The top 10 neighbors span six different subcategories — Athletes, Sports Teams, Fictional Characters, TV Shows, Podcasts and Radio, and TV Channels — with no single category dominating the set in the way a tightly niche audience would.
The shape is broad, meaning overlap is distributed across many neighbors rather than concentrated in one. Clint Dempsey leads at 0.94, followed closely by U.S. Soccer WNT (0.93), AFC Richmond (0.92), and U.S. Soccer MNT (0.92). Six of the ten neighbors are fellow Athletes or Sports Teams — Taylor Twellman (0.92), Jozy Altidore (0.91), Alexi Lalas (0.90), and Abby Wambach (0.90) round out that cluster — making the core of the neighbor set recognizably same-kind. The more notable structural detail is what sits alongside them: AFC Richmond, a Fictional Characters entry, scores 0.92, nearly identical to the two national teams, and Ted Lasso, a TV Show, lands at 0.91. Men in Blazers, a Podcasts and Radio entry, closes the top 10 at 0.87. The presence of a fictional soccer club and its source TV show at near-parity with real national teams and players is the clearest structural signal in the data: this audience's shape is defined by U.S. soccer fandom broadly, including its cultural extensions, not just by athlete-to-athlete overlap.
Christian Pulisic at 0.88 is the only neighbor whose scores trail the main cluster noticeably, suggesting the audience composition tightens around the 2014-era USMNT cohort more than around the current generation.
The broad shape here reflects an audience that is coherent around a specific sport and its ecosystem rather than dispersed across general sports fandom.
