The Lionel Messi-Cristiano Ronaldo debate is eternal in the soccer world, but there’s now one thing the Portuguese star can claim over his Argentinian counterpart: YouTube supremacy.
Ronaldo, who plays with Saudi Pro League club Al Nassr, launched his own channel on Wednesday and recorded the most successful YouTube channel launch ever, reaching 100,000 subscribers in 55 minutes and then one million subscribers in 90 minutes.
Cristiano Ronaldo took to social media to announce the launch of his new YouTube channel “UR Cristiano” with eight short videos already uploaded on the home page.
Within the space of an hour, the channel had already amassed 1.5 million subscribers with the number growing exponentially as the day wears on with fans across social media platforms confident that the Al Nassr striker is on track to challenge MrBeast with the most popular YouTube channel on the planet.