08/11/2021 4:40 AM
Clarín.com
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Updated 08/11/2021 4:40 AM
Lionel Messi left Barcelona, signed his contract at Paris Saint Germain and
broke his popularity record on Google
, getting unprecedented figures in internet search engines and even from the most exotic places on the planet.
In this month of August that has just begun, and especially in this week, Leo reached its highest level of searches on the platform since it began to measure this issue.
To pass clean:
never since 2004 have so many people been interested in Messi
and they wanted to know what happened with his arrival in Paris, a totally revolutionized city.
The image shows that the previous peaks are quite far from the levels that the Argentine crack managed this Tuesday, August 10 - and all week.
As his figure and soccer star level grew,
more people searched the web for his name for
photos, news, videos, and more.
But never like these days
.
In fact, he far exceeded what he had achieved in
July 2014,
when he played
the World Cup final in Brazil
and came very close to being enshrined against Germany.
That time it barely generated
40 percent of the value it reached in these hours.
The historical peak in the searches of Messi
After that moment of euphoria, there were other stages also where the 10,
now the 30 of PSG
, was at the center of the world scene, but never showed what was generated now.
In May 2015,
with the
consecration in the Champions League;
June 2016,
when he announced
his retirement from the Argentine National Team,
and
in 2018
during the World Cup in Russia
.
Exactly one year ago, the graph also shows remarkable growth in searches.
This rebound is due to the fact that
in August 2020 Messi sent the burofax with which he demanded to leave Barcelona,
a wish that he could not finally achieve.
The moment when Leo lands in Europe: the most viral of the day.
The top moment of August 2021, which was already a record for Messi despite the fact that it was just beginning,
was when the Argentine landed in France with Antonela and her three children,
at around 11 in Argentina, after having left Barcelona some hours before.
The exotic places in the world to Google Messi
The whole planet was interested in what happened to Leo in Paris after he left Barcelona.
Guinea leads the ranking in the
proportion of searches generated over those related to Argentina
.
Surely on a fairly low base (there are only 12 million people), but anyway
the vast majority of those who have access to the internet wanted to find out about Messi.
The map showing where Leo was searched.
Just as other exotic destinations that are culturally and
geographically
distant
from Rosario and its sporting influence
appear nearby on that list
-the case of Congo, Cameroon and Ivory Coast-,
there are also those who did not seem to care too much about a historical event in history of football.
Guinea, the one with the best proportion.
There were others with an absolute higher number of searches.
In the United States, which are not very fanatical about soccer, it ranks in the 82nd ranking.
The total search flow possibly works against it.
, but the Americans were not top in the Googled about Lionel.
Also Germany and the Netherlands, soccer nations, surprise by the proportion.
Anyway: in all the continents and countries Messi was the cause of a search.
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