Introduction: Society asks for solutions to science to get return on investment in research. Objective: To analyze the relationship between the ranking of a bibliometric indicator , scientific production of “soccer ” topic, and the ranking of an indicator of the influence of the results of research on this topic in society , soccer rankings. Results: Moderately significant direct correlation between ranking WoS publications 2010 and FIFA ranking 2010 with an rs =.520, p =.000, R2 =.238. ABFR-Index =.575 remains positive and moderately significant. Conclusions: There is a direct influence on society of the results of research on the “soccer ” topic. Therefore ABFR -Index will be in future a reference to interpret the relationship and influences between the scientific world and society.