RealGM

As someone who respects and appreciates soccer, but is not a big fan (hence calling it soccer and not football or futbal ) I am curious how seriously soccer fans regard the Olympics.

Obviously winning an Olympic Gold Medal is not up there with the World Cup, let's establish my baseline of understanding there. But how seriously do soccer fans take the Olympics in relation to other national tournaments, or even professional club championships?

Brazilian here, only the media takes soccer with some seriousness, everyone else just dont care, its just another sport, way different than the WC

Irrelevant, really. It makes no sense.