The Soccer World Cup on Facebook

While the FIFA has not yet captured the enthusiasm for Soccer on Facebook yet, the Facebook-Team has pitched in and is filling the social media soccer gap.

As reported the FIFA has not managed to capture social media yet and finding something like an official FIFA World Cup page is nearly impossible, the team at Facebook is filling the gap and providing us with a great leader board to track the most popular team.

The leader board measures the amount of people supporting their team by “liking” it on Facebook. It is weighed according to the Internet population of the country. There are also several options to determinate intensity, rank per group or region.

South American people obviously are more passionate Internet fans than the German speaking guys over here.

While Switzerland only takes the 22nd place (6’815 Fans), Germany is lagging even more with the 25th place (61’400 Fans) and the US is taking the 28th place (186’000 fans at an Internet population of 227 million).

South Korea, Japan and North Korea don’t really care about the World Cup at all.