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Facebook data team make it possible to see how we say to our friends that our team score in a soccer game.

Lets start first with the length of the word "goal" in different countries. On the world map bellow you can see that the dark regions like South America like to write the word as long a possible (i.e. GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!"). The winner here is Venezuela with 21 characters.

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The longest word "goal" written in Facebook during the world cup in Brasil comes from Argentina and is 20400 characters long (gooo....oool). If you try to write this word again you will need to hold down the letter "o" for 12 minutes!

If you want to learn how to say goal in different languages see the list bellow:
Gol (Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese)
Goal (English)
ประตู (Thai)
Tor (German)
ゴール (Japanese)

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Facebook starts a new page where you can explore all the posts with hashtag worldcup.
Trending World Cup page (www.facebook.com/worldcup) allows you to join the conversation about the 2014 soccer event in Brasil. You can write something, upload photo or video, or share a link with #worldcup.

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A great place to see the reactions in real time. This dedicated hub for the soccer fans have also latest scores from the games, real-time posts from friends and the top players and national teams.

The interactive atlas "Fan Map" shows the fans of the best players. You can try an see how many fans have Rolando, Messi or Neymar.

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Don't forget to be close with you friends during the matches. Take you phone and add status updates on your facebook page - tap the smiley icon and select "watching".

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