Most-followed Portuguese-language athletes on Instagram 2022
In September 2022, Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo had 481.6 million followers on Meta's Instagram, making him the leading Portuguese-language athlete on the platform. Overall, Brazilian football player Neymar da Silva Santos JĂșnior, known as Neymar, had 178.8 million Instagram followers, and Brazilian footballer Marcelo Vieira ranked third with over 58 million followers on the social media platform.