At least Brazil's women have scored! Host nation's female population, which greatly outnumbers the men, reaps the benefits of the World Cup with so many football fans arriving

The past three weeks' flood of foreign soccer fans - the vast majority of them men - has been a boon for the SINGLE WOMEN of Brazil, where a demographic imbalance means they outnumber men by more than 4 million nationally. The imbalance, the result of higher mortality rates among young men, is particularly acute in Rio de Janeiro, where there are just over nine men for every 10 women, according to the 2010 census.