'What would Real Madrid do?' | On athletic obsessions and hyper-fans of the sporting world Creating Life

After the hype of the Indian Premier League, cricketing nations are cheering on their teams at the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup in Wales and England. Then there’s the Women’s Soccer World Cup, Wimbledon...a lot to keep any sporting fan engaged right now.

But, the thing is, the hosts of this show aren’t really sports fans. We never really played much of it (except when Sindhu got to captain her school’s badminton team because there were only a handful of people in it), and don’t feel moved by any sporting team or individual to qualify as ‘real fans’. 

To help us understand the art of ‘hyper-fandom’, we speak with Ishaan Achanta, probably one of the most diehard Real Madrid fans we’ve ever met. He walks us through why the team is so important to him, and why its presence extends to other (non-sporting) parts of his life.

We also speak with Priyansh, a Delhi-based freelance writer who has written extensively about sports (he also covered the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia) about what why cricket reigns supreme in India, why women’s sports don’t command as much fandom, and more.

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