When comparing the number of followers on the Arabic Club’s Instagram page before and after signing Cristiano Ronaldo, 433 Football posted an image on their social media accounts to illustrate the Ronaldo effect.

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With 532 million followers, the five-time Ballon d’Or winner from Portugal is the athlete with the most followers on Instagram. He unquestionably has the greatest global influence on sports and left a lasting impression on whatever Club or nation he visited.

The tweet from @433 shows how the Club’s fanbase has grown quickly after Cristiano announced his arrival on December 31. Before Ronaldo came, The Club had 823K Instagram followers; today, that number has increased to over 9.2 million and still rising.

When Ronaldo enters Al Nassr stadium, it is predicted that the number of Arab League watchers will also rise. The Portuguese man received a warm welcome from the Club upon his arrival in Saudi Arabia. Worldwide, Ronaldo supporters applaud the welcome ceremony and remark that this is how a king should be greeted.

It is evident that Ronaldo’s admirers throughout the world will follow their hero to the Arab League as they begin watching Serie-A since Ronaldo left Real Madrid and moved to Turin to continue his incredible career at Juventus.

During Cristiano’s three seasons with Juventus, Serie-A in Italy was ranked as one of the top three most-watched European leagues. For a while, it outperformed La Liga and the Premier League regarding viewership. The enormous growth was referred to as the Ronaldo effect.

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Since the Portuguese star announced his deal with the Club till 2025, purchases of Al Nassr shirts with the number 7 saw an immediate increase.

Juventus saw a similar increase after acquiring Ronaldo in 2018 and selling uniforms for more than $60 million in a single day. Just one day after the Portuguese arrived in Turin, 55,000 shirts were sold.

The Club has yet to make public the quantity of Al Nassr kits sold following Ronaldo’s signing, but it almost probably doubled.

The Al Nassr coach emphasised that Cristiano might play his debut game for Al Nassr during a friendly match against PSG in addition to the kit count.

The greatest football players might play against each other one last time. The biggest football rivalry will conclude with their final meeting on January 19, and fans around the world are eager to see it.

If this were to occur, the game would revive all the excitement and cherished memories of EL- Classico, when these two GOATS faced off and raised the stakes between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona.

Their most recent encounter was at Camp Nou during the second leg of the Champions League group stage after Ronaldo left Madrid. Ronaldo missed the first leg because of COVID, putting Juventus in a 2-0 deficit aggregate.

After defeating COVID-19 in the second leg, Ronaldo rejoined his team and helped his team win by scoring two incredible penalties. Weston McKennie also scored an important goal in the game’s 20th minute.

 

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