Top 5 Footballers With Most No. Of Followers on Social Media


Top 5 Footballers With Most No. Of Followers on Social Media

With a basic fan estimate of more than 3.5 Billion, Football easily makes itself the most followed sport in the world by a whopping 1 Billion difference from the next sport to follow, i.e Cricket (2.5 Billion).

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After conquering the world with the highest fan estimate, it can also be said that atheletes who play football are also among the most followed Athletes in the world.

It is obvious that today, most of these Fans use their social media accounts to follow their favorite players so that they never miss out on their glorious career moments, day to day training sessions, funny family times and random selfies with their fans.

In order to find out who’s the most followed player of the most followed game currently!

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James Rodriguez

James David Rodríguez Rubio, commonly called James, is a Colombia based professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Real Madrid and also for the National team of Colombia.

Being a World-class player, Rodriguez is an excellent player with ‘lightning-fast’ legs which are evident in his passing. Despite his small stature, his strong physicality makes up for it. He also has a great shooting ability with good dribbling skills as well.

Fan Base- 95 Million (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram)

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Ronaldinho

Commonly known as Ronaldinho or Ronaldo de Assis Moreira is a Brazilian former footballer and ambassador for Team Barcelona. Primiraly being an attacking midfielder, he was sometimes also deployed as a forward or a winger.

Reportedly, he developed himself to become one of Brazil’s most talented youth soccer players. At the age of only 13, he once scored a ridiculous 23 goals in a single game. After this, Ronaldinho was given his first professional contract to play for Gremio.

Fan Base – 105.2 Million (Including All Three)

Leonel Messi

One of the most celebrated players of all time, Lionel Messi is an Argentina based footballer widely regarded as one of the greatest players of this generation. He primiraly plays for FC Barcelona and also for the Argentina national team. He has won FIFA world player of the year for a record four times.

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Messi has played 687 matches for club Barcelona in which he has managed to score 603 goals by winning 33 club titles & including 10 La Liga titles.

Fan Base – 237 (Only Facebook and Instagram)

Neymar

Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, or simply ‘Neymar Jr’, is a professional footballer from Brazil. He plays as a forward for Ligue 1 Club Paris Saint-Germain and also for his National Team Brazil.

Neymar is a very fast dribbler, his speed is his biggest strength, it is possible that this is only due to the fact that he is build so slight, but again speed is speed. Neymar is capable to break away from defenders while they counterattack, he may also slip behind them to get the ball through.

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Fan Base- 242.3 Millon (All Together)

Cristiano Ronaldo

The footballer with the biggest fan base, YES!

It’s Cristiano Ronaldo

Born in Madeira, Ronaldo started his club career with the team Sporting CP, later he signed Manchester United in 2003 at a relatively young age of just 18.

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His one of the finest seasons with Team United came in the year 2007–08, when he scored 42 goals in total and earned the Golden Shoe award as he was Europe’s leading scorer, with 31 League goals particularly.

Throughout his career, Ronaldo is compared with Messi in terms of ‘Who’s The Greatest’, but one has to admit this, that Messi played for arguably the best side ever to play the game and only added value for an unforgettable team, while Ronaldo became the driving factor of his his team’s greatness.

Fan Base – 417.7 Million ( Highest FAN Base of any Athlete till date!)