re: Newbie soccer queston

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I'm with you. It's not like I'm dissing those who will pick a team at random, without having a real connection to the team or city. I just don't really understand it. I find more joy watching and enjoying the game for what an awesome game it is. I also kind of feel like it makes you less biased when it comes to judging teams.

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I needed a team. Though I played soccer, I haven't watched/played for 15 years. Suddenly deciding to take on leagues abroad is an enormous task for someone like me. I quite literally spent hours on end reading about leagues and clubs and players and managers trying to put together some overarching knowledge.

Anyway, picking/being drawn to a club helped me narrow my focus. Once I really started focusing my attention there, I could sprout out to league opponents, cup opponents, players with current or former connection, etc. It gave me a road map to how I'd tackle the game.

Kudos to those who can just sit back and let it come to them, that'd probably be a more natural way of doing it.