Who is your favorite team?
In a Facebook poll of 2,535 respondents, 23.2% chose “Brazil”. How we count
Thirty-two teams split this vote so hard that Brazil's win looks more like a plurality squeak than a rout: 23.2% was enough to lead for all 130 days, but that means better than three in four voters picked someone else. Argentina held second the entire way, never closer than 8 points back — this was a two-team race for the minor placing while thirty options fought over scraps below 15%.
The clearest fracture sits in the U.S. vote itself: American voters' top pick was Italy, not the poll's eventual winner, making the largest single national bloc backers of a team that finished fourth overall. Add Spain's stubborn grip on second place for most of the middle stretch and this reads as a poll where geography, not consensus, decided who almost won.
- Winning share · Brazil took the poll with just 23.2% of votes
- U.S. dissent · Top American bloc backed Italy, not the winner
- Steady runner-up · Argentina held second place for all 130 days