# ATTN: Soccer players/Anyone who follows sports **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [July 18, 2007, 10:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attn-soccer-players-anyone-who-follows-sports/191235 "2007-07-18T10:54:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 161
**Author:** ![kilmer420](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@kilmer420](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/kilmer420)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2007, 1:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attn-soccer-players-anyone-who-follows-sports/191235/161 "2007-07-25T13:55:06Z")
> [@FS: 2006 Suzuki GS 500F (THINK MPG)\_SOLD](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-2006-suzuki-gs-500f-think-mpg-sold/31482/18): > > The World Cup was first televised in 1954 and is now the most widely-viewed and followed sporting event in the world, exceeding even the Olympic Games.[27] The cumulative audience of the 2006 World Cup - including all of the matches - is estimated to be 26.29 billion.[1] 715.1 million individuals watched the final match of this tournament (a ninth of the entire population of the planet). The 2006 World Cup draw, which decided the distribution of teams into groups, was watched by 300 million viewers The funniest part of all this, is that they did not include africa or south america in these ratings, that’s only 370mil for S. Am., and 680mil, for Africa as they don’t have a way to track it. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/attn-soccer-players-anyone-who-follows-sports/191235)._