Cristiano Ronaldo, a global icon, is spreading his wings in the world of social media. Having built a massive following on Instagram, X and Facebook, Ronaldo, widely regarded as one of the greatest footballers to have played the game, has made a spectacular debut on video sharing platform YouTube shattering a host of records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Wednesday, he launched his channel named \u2018UR\u2019 and asked his followers to hit the subscribe button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And his fans obliged. In record numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Within the first 90 minutes of the channel being launched, it had already hit the 1 million subscribers mark and reportedly, this is the quickest anyone has managed to reach this milestone in YouTube\u2019s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the time of this article going live, Ronaldo\u2019s channel has 18.7 million subscribers and counting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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