2018 FIFA World Cup: Root For Your Roots
WASHINGTON - There are 32 teams vying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup - but the U.S. is not among them this year! So how do you pick a team to root for?
FOX 5 has partnered with DNA testing company, 23 And Me, to help trace the DNA roots of some of our FOX 5 team in hopes of helping us decide which country we should cheer on!
Here are the breakdowns showing where the DNA from FOX 5's Mike Thomas, Erin Como and Steve Chenevey could be traced to:
Mike Thomas
European 100 percent
British and Irish (United Kingdom) | 39.8 percent
French and German | 20.2 percent
Eastern European (Poland) | 14.4 percent
Erin Como
European 98.1 percent
French and German (Switzerland) | 28 percent
Italian (Italy) | 26.5 percent
British and Irish (United Kingdom) | 12 percent
Eastern European | 5.2 percent
Steve Chenevey
French and German | 42 percent
Eastern European (Poland) | 15.3 percent
Scandinavian | 4.2 percent
Balkan | 3.5 percent
British and Irish | 2.1 percent
Italian | 1.8 percent
Iberian | 1.1 percent
The 2018 FIFA World Cup begins June 14 on FOX.