The End of the World Cup Year

The final match of this years FIFA World Cup in Germany was the most watched sports event in 2006, drawing more than twice as many viewers as any other program.

An average of 260 million people watched Italy claim its fourth title after winning 5-3 in a penalty shootout against France and more than 600 million viewers watched some part of the Berlin match. The whole event had a cumulative 5.9 billion audience in 54 countries, of which 41 percent were women.

2006 was also a very successful year for World Cup Corner. With numbers still increasing there were more than 300.000 unique visitors stopping by and more than 1.2 million pageviews in 2006.

Let’s call it a year with the top 10 most viewed posts in the World Cup Year 2006:

  1. All Eyes on Heidi Klum
  2. The World Cup’s Richest Players
  3. World Cup Playboys
  4. Babes, Wives and Girlfriends
  5. Joga Bonito
  6. Zidane About The Headbutt Incident
  7. International Soccer - The Grandaddy of All Games
  8. Italy on Top of the World
  9. The Grand Finale: Italy - France
  10. Matches and Results

Merry and happy everything. See you in 2007!

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2 Comments »

  1. CFC Blues said,

    January 6, 2007 @ 10:52 pm

    I love the blog that you have.

    I was wondering if you would link my blog to yours and in return I would do the same for your blog.

    If you want to, my site name is CFC Blues and the URL is:

    http://blog.cfcblues.com

    If you want to do this just go to my blog and in one of the comments just write your blog name and the URL and I will add it to my site.

    Thanks,
    CFCblues

  2. Miha said,

    January 8, 2007 @ 6:23 am

    CFCblues thx for stoping by.

    Currently I don’t offer link exchange.

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