Was Michael Jordan more influential in the 90s than Cristiano Ronaldo could not be in the current decade?
On August 21,
Cristiano Ronaldo launched his YouTube channelentitled “Ur Cristiano” (“your Cristiano” in French). Five months later, the Portuguese international has more than 73 million subscribers on it. On other social networks, the show of Al-Nassr has 648 million followers on Instagram, 170 million on Facebook and 114.5 million on X.
It’s very simple: no sportsman is as followed in the world as the former Real Madrid player. However, this would have been the case if social networks had existed in the 90s, at the time when
Michael Jordan Was one of the largest stars on the planet? “To be honest, I think Michael would probably have had the double,”
Imagine his former teammate in the Chicago Bulls, Scottie Pippen, in the PBD Podcast.
Cristiano Ronaldo from the 2020s less influential than Jordan in the 90s?
“When we see these figures as a player who has evolved in the 90s, we do not really realize their magnitude and what they really mean, continues the ex-basketball player. We have not grown up in the era of social networks. That said, Ronaldo is one of the largest footballers and sportsmen in the world and its 648 million subscribers speak for themselves. »»
Michael Jordan does not use any social network directly. The accounts associated with its name are managed by community managers and generally only serve to relay press releases. “I don’t know if I could have survived this [ère] of Twitter, where you do not have the privacy you would like ”, wondered in 2020 the one who popularized internationally the NBA around the world in the 1980s and 1990s.
