Neil Freiman

which is nearly the population of Spain, is just insane.

Real Madrid claimed to have 600 million fans worldwide, which did the calculation that 7.5% of the global population are fans of this one particular soccer team in Spain.

Now, there are accusations that some of these or many of these signatures are bots and fake, but I still think it shows how popular of a sport this is.

Absolutely.

And how passionate people are about it.

Yeah, and they're playing against Barcelona on Sunday in El Clasico, and they are far behind Barcelona, can clinch the league.

Then there's a lot of disgruntled people.

7.5% of the world's population, apparently.

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