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AFC Richmond — a fictional soccer club — sits at position seven in U.S. Soccer MNT's top 10, scoring 0.91 against a field otherwise dominated by real athletes and media. That's the sharpest signal of what the two-peak shape reveals here.
The two peaks are clear. The first clusters around the sister national team and current players: U.S. Soccer WNT leads at 0.95, followed closely by Clint Dempsey at 0.94, Alex Morgan at 0.94, Christian Pulisic at 0.93, and Tim Howard at 0.92. All five are Athletes (subcategory), and the WNT is the only other Sports Team in the top 10. This first peak is tightly soccer-specific: current and former U.S. national team figures, plus Alexi Lalas at 0.92 and Taylor Twellman at 0.91 rounding out the athlete cluster.
The second peak is the soccer-as-culture layer. AFC Richmond at 0.91 and NBC Sports Soccer at 0.90 — a TV Channel — represent audiences who engage with the sport through narrative and broadcast rather than player fandom alone. Ted Lasso, the TV Show that spawned AFC Richmond, sits just outside the top 10 at 0.88, reinforcing that this second cluster is built around soccer's crossover into mainstream entertainment media.
The top 10 contains no other Sports Leagues, no club teams, and no non-soccer sports figures — the audience shape is narrow by sport but bridges the line between real competition and fictional storytelling.
