Female participation is higher when being the underdogs at the World Cup . Facebook statistics show female interest in teams considered World Cup underdogs -- such as Iran , Colombia , the U.S and Costa Rica -- is well over 40 % in the number of posts mentioning those countries . Iran received over 472,927 social mentions of which 43 % came from a female audience . Costa Rica have one of the highest percentages of female contributors on social media . Women dominated the social media buzz in the Group B match between Mexico and Croatia .
Female participation is higher when being the underdogs at the World Cup . Iran received over 472,927 social mentions of which 43 % came from a female audience . Costa Rica have one of the highest percentages of female contributors on social media . Women dominated the social media buzz in the Group B match between Mexico and Croatia .