{"id":699003,"date":"2026-06-12T04:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T04:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699003\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T04:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T04:07:12","slug":"a-new-survey-answers-the-age-old-question-of-which-fifa-world-cup-fan-base-is-most-attractive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/699003\/","title":{"rendered":"A new survey answers the age-old question of which FIFA World Cup fan base is most attractive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6398170020112\" data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_featured-video_5_1\" data-v-7b1896ea=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off: Simon Jordan discusses U.S. soccer growth<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-7b1896ea=\"\">Talksport presenter Simon Jordan discusses the 2026 FIFA World Cup kickoff in Mexico, highlighting its immense global and growing U.S. influence. Jordan notes soccer&#8217;s rise to the third most popular sport in America, surpassing baseball and hockey. He is optimistic about the record-breaking tournament, expected to sell 6.5 million tickets, despite past World Cup challenges.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\">There&#8217;s electricity in the air because the <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_1908335\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/fifa-world-cup-2026-schedule-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">2026 FIFA World Cup is<\/a> officially underway, with Mexico taking the first win of the tournament in a red-card-filled match against South Africa.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\" class=\"speakable\">But there is still only one question on everyone&#8217;s mind as <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_1908336\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/soccer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">soccer&#8217;s<\/a> biggest tournament gets rolling: which fan base is the most attractive?<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Well, lucky us, we have an answer.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_1908337\" href=\"https:\/\/link.podtrac.com\/dmwdd_article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">ZERO BS. JUST DAKICH. TAKE THE DON&#8217;T @ ME PODCAST ON THE ROAD. DOWNLOAD NOW!<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/us-soccer-fans.jpeg\" alt=\"US soccer fans\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>It was a strong showing for us Americans, but not enough to win the title of most attractive fanbase at the FIFA World Cup. (Bob Self\/Florida Times-Union)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_1908338\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelines.com\/most-attractive-world-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Lines<\/a> did a survey of 3,000 U.S. soccer fans to determine which fan base, team, USMNT player, and manager were most attractive and which home kit is considered the best-looking.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_1908339\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/mexico-defeats-south-africa-world-cup-opener-estadio-azteca-scoring-ninth-minute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">MEXICO DEFEATS SOUTH AFRICA IN WORLD CUP OPENER AT ESTADIO AZTECA AFTER SCORING IN NINTH MINUTE<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_1908340\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/christian-pulisic-explains-screaming-celebration-ending-scoring-drought\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Christian Pulisic<\/a> \u2014 the biggest thing to come out of Hershey, Pennsylvania, since the Reese&#8217;s Cup \u2014 was named the most attractive player on the USMNT roster, while the U.S. kit was named the best of the bunch.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">But, as far as fanbases are concerned, the reigning champs from the 2022 World Cup came out on top.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">That&#8217;s right. If you&#8217;re looking for the best-looking soccer fans, you&#8217;re going to need to head down south of the border&#8230; and then south of a few more borders to Argentina.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/argentina-fans.jpeg\" alt=\"Argentinian fans\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>A new survey has named Argentina&#8217;s fans the most attractive at the World Cup. So, if you&#8217;re single, maybe go snag some tickets to one of their matches. (Photo by Cui Nan\/China News Service\/VCG via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_1908341\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/outkick-culture\/cameraman-gets-caught-risking-film-world-cups-sexiest-fan-formula-1-paddock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">&#8220;World&#8217;s sexiest fan&#8221; Ivana Knoll<\/a> is not going to demand an inquiry into this survey.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_1908342\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/world-regions\/brazil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brazil<\/a> came in second, with the U.S. coming home in third (which is good, because we&#8217;re all attractive as hell).<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">Mexico came home in fourth \u2014 capping off a very strong showing from soccer-mad Latin America \u2014 while France finished fifth, marking Europe&#8217;s highest-finishing fan base, with Knoll&#8217;s Croatia right behind in sixth.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">A lot of times when you see surveys like this, it feels like they&#8217;re designed to make you go, &#8220;What?!?!&#8221; and start click-clacking your dismay on <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_1908343\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.onelink.me\/xLDS?pid=AppArticleLink&amp;af_dp=foxnewsaf%3A%2F%2F&amp;af_web_dp=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fapps-products\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/argentina-crowd.jpeg\" alt=\"Argentina soccer crowd\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how the tournament pans out, but Argentina and its easy-on-the-eyes fans already have one win under their belts. (Maria Lysaker-Imagn Images)<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">But this one? Nah, I could see all of it. It tracked. I mean, you could debate the order, but it&#8217;s not like when <a data-omtr-intcmp=\"fnc_outkick-sports_article_main-content_article-body_6_1908345\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/organization\/the-new-york-times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The New York Times<\/a> comes out and goes, &#8220;No, seriously, guys; we sincerely do not believe Billy Joel is one of the 30 greatest living American songwriters,&#8221; as rage-bait.<\/p>\n<p data-layout-index=\"5\">As for most attractive team, that honor went to Brazil, while Argentina manager Lionel Scaloni was deemed the biggest head-turner among bench bosses.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Reigle is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 FIFA World Cup kicks off: Simon Jordan discusses U.S. soccer growth Talksport presenter Simon Jordan discusses the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[259870,403,99,126826],"class_list":["post-699003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-outkick-sports","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-the-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}