The final traffic results for FIFAworldcup.com were presented yesterday by Yahoo! and FIFA.

It looks like football (soccer for Americans) had, has, and will have the biggest number of fans in the whole world. The recently ended FIFA World Cup has made the world turn faster as literally billions of fans watched it on TV or even made the trip to Germany to witness the real feeling of a football game. Surely, the Internet, as the newest mass communication medium, played an important part in the big game.

The FIFAworldcup.com website, currently available in nine languages and jointly produced, marketed and hosted by FIFA and Yahoo!, experienced and astonishing amount of traffic during the month-long competition. During June 9 and July 9, 2006, the website attracted more than 4.2 Billion Page Views by visitors, with half of them accessed in the tournament’s first two weeks.

2006 marks the first year that video highlights of World Cup matches have been free on the Web, and fans taken full advantage and viewed more that 138 Million Video Streams. Other statistics include 3.5 Million Flickr Photo pages viewed, 73 Million page views on FIFAworldcup.com’s mobile web destination and over 875,000 Fanatsy sign-ups.