কেন এত বেশি ফুটবল প্রেমিকদের কোনো প্রিয় দল নেই?

##ফ্যানডম-এর මිථ আমি ভাবতাম, ‘বিশ্বাস’-এর अर्थ है एक टीम चुनना—যতক্ষণও

2022-এ, 68% global football fans-এর कोई प्राइमरी क्लब नहीं था। यह कोई apathy नहीं, कोई disinterest नहीं। 11 मिलियन users के data से पता चला: they followed players—not clubs. Johannesburg to Jakarta-এ same pattern repeats. This isn’t cultural decay. It’s systemic.

Players Over Clubs

Neymar doesn’t wear a jersey—he gets retweeted.

Globalization of fandom now isn’t about scarves or stadium chants. It’s about TikTok highlights, Instagram goal reels, and algorithmic triggers. Mbappe score-এ, PSG-এ cheer korben na—Mbappe-এ cheer korben. Haaland goal netted hole-এ, City-এr player-ei care koro nai—tui care koro because his run perfect.

The Algorithmic Fan

I grew up in Chicago’s South Side with jazz in my veins and N.B.A. games on mute.

My father German immigrant; my mother Black American—both taught me: loyalty is not inherited; it’s extracted from patterns.

We don’t follow teams—we follow trajectories. When an AI predicts who scores next—and who gets retweeted—we’re not fans anymore. We’re data points with eyeballs.