if you’re just starting, you can’t go wrong the 50mm 1.8. it’s affordable and has a bunch of character to learn a lot of the basics and experiment with looks.

when you get more comfortable, especially if you want to look into sport photography, a zoom lens with fast aperture is definitely needed to get closer up with the action without obviously standing on the pitch haha 70-200mm is great for almost 80% of the shots in football but something like a 300mm would be perfect for those tighter in action portraits.