Nearly half of Facebook users are soccer fans

As the World Cup, the biggest event in soccer, approaches, Facebook decided to share some interesting stats about soccer fans on its platform.

Of the 1.2 billion people on Facebook, some 500 million of them are soccer fans (people who have liked a soccer player or a soccer team), making it the largest stadium in the world. In the U.S. alone, 48.9 million people are soccer fans, the second highest number for any country after Brazil, which has 53.8