You could be right that the world is just that crazy about soccer and Real is just that popular. But I feel like this relates similar to college football. I always think of LSU as being extremely football crazy. Then you realize the student section is only like 20% of enrolment and you start to think maybe people just don't care about football (sports) as much as you think. We spend a lot of our time on here talking about soccer, and we assume everyone is like us.

Again, maybe this number is right, but it is just staggering.

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Posted by StraightCashHomey21

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Posted on 9/14/15 at 2:44 pm to DestrehanTiger

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We spend a lot of our time on here talking about soccer, and we assume everyone is like us.

from my travels the are way more soccer mad than we are.

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Again, maybe this number is right, but it is just staggering.

They probably also count people who support Madrid as their second club after their local one as official fans.

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Posted by joey barton

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Posted on 9/14/15 at 3:14 pm to DestrehanTiger

It's just a fluff figure put out by the club.

However, Real Madrid is immensely popular, especially in some of the areas mentioned in this thread, e.g., Indonesia.

I don't think that anyone is talking about hardcore fans, either. 20% of the LSU student body may attend, but I would imagine that most LSU students are at least casual fans of the football team. I would consider myself a fan and didn't attend every game, and even when I did, I'd sometimes leave early.

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