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Study shows: Portugal is European social media champion – DFB team lags behind in comparison

Meanwhile, the battle for titles is not only raging on the soccer field – the international associations are also vying for the favor of users on the Internet. The reigning European champion Portugal, who wants to defend his title at the EM starting Friday, apparently does it best. According to a study by the sports marketing agency web network Sports (Click here for the article) the Portuguese around superstar Cristiano Ronaldo are European social media champions! No EM-participating country has as many followers on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter in relation to the number of inhabitants.

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A particularly impressive performance by the second German group opponent at the European Championship (June 19, 6 p.m.): Portugal even has more followers (12.6 million) than the country’s population (10.3 million) on its social media channels . An unbelievable follower / resident quota (122.3 percent) that no other country comes close to. This is of course partly due to Ronaldo, who has over 295 million followers (!) On Instagram alone. On the other hand, the EM triumph in 2016 will have caused a boom in the number of followers. For comparison: Vice World Champion Croatia in second place with a total of 1.3 million followers and a population of 4.1 million comes to a rate of 31.7 percent.

Fashion designer Thomas Rath evaluates the EM jerseys in 2021

Fashion designer Thomas Rath took a close look at the jerseys of the EM participants.

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Germany scores somewhat poorly in the population / follower comparison. With “only” 13 million social followers and 83.2 million inhabitants, Germany (rate: 15.6 percent) ranks ninth in the EM ranking – behind smaller nations such as Belgium and Wales.

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