Facebook analyzed data aggregated anonymous conversation and the 23 players nominated in 14 different countries. More information below.
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Before the announcement of the FIFA on which player will be the winner of the prestigious Golden Ball on Monday, the team data Facebook has analyzed the social conversation in 14 countries to see which player most talked about on Facebook now the list is confirmed.
According to the study’s database revealed that the Colombian James Rodriguez is one of the most preferred awake, appearing in the rankings of Argentina, Brazil and Mexico for Latin America, and other countries like Spain, Mexico and France, which were also part the study.
To aggregate the data, the nominees for the Golden Ball Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo are the two most popular football players on Facebook. Ronaldo not only has more likes on Facebook than any other athlete, but also the most popular public figure in all categories Facebook with 108 million likes. The star of Barca and Argentina, Lionel Messi, is the second most popular athlete on Facebook with 81 million likes. The third nominee, Brazilian star Neymar has over 54 million likes on the platform.
Other ‘cracks’ Luis Suarez show high preferences on data considered for analysis, which analyzed data from the list of candidates was announced last October 20, 2015 until January 3, 2016.
In April 2015, Facebook announced that 650 million people are connected to a sports page on Facebook, making the platform the world’s largest sports fans community. Facebook also launched new products such as Live for 360 Video Facebook Mentions on Facebook to help athletes, teams, leagues and others sports media to connect and interact with their fans on Facebook more creative and spontaneous forms.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic was the most popular sportsman in Sweden (33%) and also in Italy (30%), beating Messi (23%) and Ronaldo (19%), who are second and third respectively in Italy. The finalists for the Golden Ball, Ronaldo and Neymar, lead the popularity rankings in more than one country. Ronaldo ranks first in 8 different countries (Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States), while Neymar first prize in two countries (Brazil and Germany) was. Only Messi reached the first place in Argentina.
The Top 11 of the most popular players Ballon analyzed in Latin America:
Argentina:
- Lionel Messi – 31%
- Neymar – 29%
- Cristiano Ronaldo – 18%
- Luis Suarez – 6%
- Sergio Aguero – 4%
- Javier Mascherano – 3%
- James Rodriguez – 2%
- Andres Iniesta – 1%
- Alexis Sanchez – 1%
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic – 1%
- Gareth Bale – 1%
Brazil
- Neymar – 61%
- Cristiano Ronaldo – 28%
- Lionel Messi – 5%
- James Rodriguez – 1%
- Luis Suarez – 1%
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic – 1%
- Sergio Aguero – 1%
- Gareth Bale – less than 1%
- Yaya Toure – less than 1%
- Robert Lewandowski – less than 1%
- Andres Iniesta – less than 1%
Mexico
- Cristiano Ronaldo – 32%
- Neymar – 25%
- Lionel Messi – 15%
- Luis Suarez – 7%
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic – 4%
- Andres Iniesta – 3%
- Alexis Sanchez – 3%
- James Rodriguez – 2%
- Gareth Bale – 2%
- Sergio Aguero – 2%
- Karim Benzema – 1%
The Top 11 of the most popular players Ballon analyzed in 14 different countries:
- Cristiano Ronaldo – 27%
- Neymar – 25%
- Lionel Messi – 14%
- Sergio Aguero – 5%
- Karim Benzema – 4%
- Luis Suarez – 4%
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic – 3%
- Alexis Sanchez – 2%
- James Rodriguez – 2%
- Gareth Bale – 2%
- Eden Hazard – 1%
About the study: The rankings are not based on likes of Facebook. Facebook analyzed data aggregated anonymous conversation and the 23 players nominated in 14 different countries. The territories were the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, France, Portugal, Turkey, Poland, the United States, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico.