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It’s another round of World Cup Twitter trends, and we’re seeing some interesting stats on how fans are tweeting about their favorite teams, players, and arch rivals.

Similarly to last week’s stats, all of the national teams trended at some point in the past seven days, and 74 players hitTwitter’s top 10. And while some coaches and managers were trending last week, this is the first time that several referees were singled out, mostly with ire from fans over unfavorable calls.

We’ve also seen more Twitter action around certain World Cup groups where the matches have been more competitive. And interestingly, some of the most-tweeted teams are not the best ones. Often, they’re teams that have been eliminated from competition, followed by waves of disappointed tweets from heartbroken fans.

Below is the breakdown of the most-tweeted teams and players this week, graciously compiled by Liz Pullen ofWhat The Trend.

Remember, these rankings are not about team and player abilities, but reflect an aggregation of hotly discussed topics related to them.

Most-Tweeted World Cup Teams

Most-Tweeted World Cup Players

Rank	Player	Team	Points
1	Guillermo Franco	Mexico	1875
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	Portugal	1740
3	Landon Donovan	USA	978
4	Nicolas Anelka	France	591
5	Luis Fabiano	Brazil	576
6	Harry Kewell	Australia	213
7	Martin Palermo	Argentina	207
8	Wesley Sneijder	Netherlands	180
9	Raul Meireles	Portugal	174
10	Fernando Torres	Spain	168

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Who owns the Twitterverse? Political posturers? Rabid international pop music fans? The gadget-crazed Twitterati? If you said all three, you’d be right, at least for this week.

As always, our partners in data at What The Trend have provided the complete chart below. Because this is a topical list, hashtag memes and games have been omitted from the chart.

You can check past Twitter trends in our Top Twitter Topicssection as well as read more about this past week’s trends onWhat The Trend.

Top Twitter Trends This Week: 6/5 – 6/11

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Rank	Topic	Top Index This Week	Previous Peak Index	Description
#1	Dutch Politics	1	-	The national election in the Netherlands was held on June, 9 2010. The final debates leading up to the election were both widely watched and tweeted about.
#2	Apple	1	-	Apple’s latest iPhone, now with improved camera, screen, processor, video calling capability and gyroscope, will be released on June 24th equipped with the latest iOS 4.
#3	MTV Movie Awards	1		The MTV Movie Awards aired June 6, 2010, hosted by Aziz Ansari. Robert Pattinson won the “Global Superstar” award, Ken Jeong, co-star of The Hangover, won Best Villian. He started crying. Betty White made a surprise appearance.
#4	Super Junior	1	2	Yesung, member of Korean boyband Super Junior, performed “It Has To Be You” from the soundtrack of Korean drama “Cinderella’s Sister” on the TV show Music Bank. Super Junior will soon start SS3 (Super Show 3), their next concert tour.
#5	Gulf Oil Spill	2	3	While measures to cap the leak have been somewhat successful, government scientists recently confirmed the leak is much larger than previously estimated.
#6	NBA	1	3	The LA Lakers are playing the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals of Men’s Basketball. The series is tied 2-2.
#7	Soccer/Football	1	-	Soccer Aid, a charity event, was played on June 6th 2010 for UNICEF UK. Meanwhile, a number of warm-up matches for the World Cup took place. There was much chatter about some players missing the World Cup due to recent injuries.
#8	Ariel Nazril Irham	1	-	Ariel (Nazril Irham) is the lead vocal of the famous Indonesian pop rock band “Peterpan.” Ariel’s laptop was lost, and according to reports, this laptop contains 2 private sex videos, which circulated across the Internet.
#9	Twitter	3	-	Twitter had some unexpected downtime this week, and a lot of people complained about the “Fail Whale.”
#10	VH1 Hip Hop Honors	1	-	The Hip Hop Honors on VH1 honored Southern Hip-Hop artists. A number of notable rappers performed.