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Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the icons of world football, is flying high in the world of social media. After building a large fan base on Instagram, X, and Facebook, the Portuguese star achieved an amazing appearance on the YouTube platform, breaking several records.

The Ronaldo channel succeeded, becoming the fastest growing in the history of the platform, gaining one million subscribers in just the first 90 minutes.

The counter of the channel Victory Striker on YouTube did not stop skyrocketing with about 50,000 subscribers per minute, and at the time of publication of this article, the number of subscribers was close to 50 million.

Ronaldo says the channel will not only cover stories about his football career, but will give followers an insight into “his family, his health, his nutrition, his preparation, his recovery , his education, his work.”

The former Real Madrid, Juventus and Manchester United forward continued, “I always enjoy the strong relationship I have with my followers on social media, and my YouTube channel will give me more exposure to strengthen their relationship and learn more about me, my family, and my views on many different subjects.”

It was not surprising how popular the Don was on YouTube, as he was widely present on all media, with the number of his followers approaching one billion followers, but success was unique of his new channel beyond anyone’s expectations.

With his new channel, Ronaldo surpasses many of the main football-related YouTube channels, including the Argentine channel Lionel Messi and many European club giants.

Saudi striker Al-Nasr’s fan base approaches one billion (Getty)

Ronaldo’s channel sweeps Messi and the biggest international clubs

It is interesting that the new Ronaldo channel on YouTube quickly surpassed the channels that were launched years ago, such as Messi and established clubs such as Real Madrid and Barcelona of Spain, and Liverpool and Manchester City of England.

• Manchester United (9.32 million subscribers): The channel was established in December 2017. He currently has less than a third of the number of subscribers on Ronaldo’s channel.

Subscribers to Manchester United’s YouTube channel reach 9.3 million (Reuters)

• Liverpool (10.3 million subscribers): The Reds were one of the first teams to create a YouTube channel, in October 2005, and despite the high quality, Ronaldo managed to surpass the number of subscribers of Liverpool three times.

• real madrid (15 million subscribers): Real Madrid, one of Ronaldo’s former clubs, has been successful in gathering followers since he created his own YouTube channel in April 2006. But the Portuguese’s huge presence on YouTube allowed him to over the number of Real Madrid subscribers in less than two days.

Real Madrid created their own YouTube channel in April 2006 (Getty)

• Barcelona (17.9 million subscribers): “Barca” has been Ronaldo’s biggest rival for most of his illustrious career, and has been successful in achieving this number since the channel’s launch in February 2006, the most number of subscribers among the football teams in the world. But Ronaldo’s channel achieved this number in a short time, reaching 20 million subscribers in less than 24 hours.

Barcelona has the most subscribers among football teams in the world (Reuters)

• Lionel Messi (2.68 million subscribers): Ronaldo’s former rival Bolga’s channel has collected this number for years, which is nothing like what the Don has achieved since the launch of his channel last Wednesday.

Years ago, Lionel Messi gathered around 2.7 million subscribers to his YouTube channel (Reuters)