Hockey-loving Canadians have gone World Cup -crazy, according to Google.

During the England vs. Italy match, 44 of 45 trending Google search topics in Canada were related to the World Cup.

Canadians are known to have an insatiable appetite for all things hockey (especially in Toronto, the epicentre of Leafs Nation) but with the NHL season and playoffs over , the obsession has shifted to soccer.

According to Google, Canadians are searching for Brazilian soccer star Neymar six times more frequently than Pittsburgh Penguins phenom Sidney Crosby, pride of Halifax.

While interest in Neymar and Argentina forward Lionel Messi is high among Canucks, Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo remains on top in terms of Canadian search volume. Ronaldo generated twice as many searches on Google, according to data compiled by the search engine giant.

Here are the teams Canadians googled most, as of Friday.

1. Brazil

2. Italy

3. England

4. Mexico

5. Germany

6. Spain

7. Portugal

8. Netherlands

9. Cameroon

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10. Croatia

After 23 matches, there have been an estimated 637 million World-Cup related searches on Google, according to Google Trends.

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