Vietnam team beat Thailand, Germany in 'World Cup with hearts'

Vietnam team defeated Thailand on the field and on... social networks - Photo: NGUYEN KHOI

Transfermarkt is famous as the football site with the widest coverage in the football world, and is also a place where all fans can refer to full information about players around the world.

Recently, this site organized an interesting voting contest on social networks. 64 countries were selected, divided into knockout rounds.

Fans can vote for their favorite team by selecting the appropriate emoji as specified by the organizers.

The 64 selected countries include powerful football nations such as Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, and even Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia... The criteria for being selected to participate is probably the enthusiasm and large number of fans in each country.

Netizens joked that this is the "World Cup" of hearts, very suitable for Vietnam to shine with its large fan base on social networks.

I don't know if the organizers intentionally arranged it or not, but the "Southeast Asian super classic" appeared right in the round of 64, when Thailand faced Vietnam.

Vietnam's top half bracket - Photo: TRANSFERMARKT

As a result, out of 11,400 people who participated in the vote, Vietnam won overwhelmingly with more than 9,400 votes, while Thailand only had 1,400 (nearly 1,000 chose the wrong symbol).

Vietnam's opponent in the round of 32 is Germany. The competition is also attracting more attention at this time.

As a result, Vietnam won overwhelmingly with 56,000 votes, while Germany only had 14,000.

In the round of 16, Vietnam's opponent is Georgia. Although football is increasingly developing in Europe, Georgia's population is less than 4 million, so it is obviously not an "easy opponent" for Vietnam.

However, Vietnam also won quite narrowly in this round with 80,000 votes, while its opponent also had 69,000.

In the quarter-finals, Vietnam faced a truly formidable opponent. That was Bangladesh, a country with more than 170 million people, significantly more than Vietnam.

Vietnam stopped after 3 wins - Photo: TRANSFERMARKT

After nearly a day of voting, Bangladesh initially dominated Vietnam, before football sites called for "unity" to vote for their home team. On social media, fans of clubs such as Man United, Liverpool, Real Madrid, Barca... called for "putting aside grudges" to support the team.

The "competition" between fans of Vietnam and Bangladesh was surprisingly attractive, attracting more than 1.3 million votes. This was also the most popular vote since Transfermarkt organized the contest.

As a result, Vietnam had to accept defeat because the opponent was too numerous. The score was Bangladesh - 749,000 and Vietnam - 546,000.

In the other quarter-final bracket, Indonesia also lost to Tunisia. But the match between the two countries' fans only attracted 66,000 votes.

In the semi-finals, Bangladesh will face Tunisia, while Argentina will face Egypt. Fans of Messi and Salah will have a chance to "compete" with each other.

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Source: https://tuoitre.vn/tuyen-viet-nam-thang-thai-lan-duc-o-world-cup-tha-tim-20250403075638978.htm