He certainly does not fit the mold of a player of a sterile PC sport that both leftist fans and conservative critics hold. If they knew more about the game, there would be more conservative soccer fans and less liberal soccer fans.
With few exceptions, most of the libs that profess to like soccer have never come close to actually playing the game (or any sport for that matter). They just became a fan because they think it shows how “worldly” they are. Most of them would pass out in the first 10 minutes if they sat in the crowd for an actual league game over in Europe.