WWE Superstars reflect on the 2018 FIFA World Cup

As one of the world's most popular sporting events, billions of people are expected to have watched FIFA's 2018 World Cup. As one of the leading influencers on all of social media, WWE is reported to have hundreds of millions of followers of its social media channels. In turn, it is not surprising that WWE and the World Cup have a lot of overlap in terms of their fanbases, in addition to a lot of their athletes being fans of one another's sports.

Over the last week, a lot of WWE employees have been vocal on Twitter about their World Cup viewing habits. Right now it is too early to tell which squads are heading to the finals of the 2018 World Cup, but from the looks of things, it seems like just following the Twitter accounts of former members of WWE's League Of Nations stable will give you insight into that.

Below is a compilation of select tweets from the last few days, as published to Twitter by WWE Superstars and extended family.

Related to that, Cesaro enjoyed watching the overtime portion of today's match between Spain and Russia:

Smackdown Live General Manager Paige offered predictions as to who is winning this edition of the World Cup:

WWE Magazine's U.K. account on Twitter, even Alexa Bliss is somehow related to the World Cup on Twitter:

WWE announcer Mike Rome is watching football's finest, having posted a series of tweets:

And finally, according to the WWE, today's big happening is Lana Day, more so than the World Cup:

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