A Nigerian Twitter has resurrected the fury of football fans across the world after claiming that American musician Beyonce appeals to more people globally than football great Cristiano Ronaldo.
The fans are seething that the Twitter user by name ‘Imoteda’ sought to belittle the popularity of Cristiano Ronaldo by comparing Beyonce to him.
Imoteda found it ‘weird’ that people assume footballers are very popular and that not a single player on the planet can be compared to Beyonce in terms of popularity.
Imoteda’s post reads “So many people think football players are crazy popular. It’s so weird. Like how can you say a football player is more popular than Beyonce? Then name two football players that even I wouldn’t recognize.”
The reactions have been outright condemnation of her post as many believe that not only Ronaldo but a host of football stars are more popular than the globally-acclaimed RnB star.
Some have referenced instances where Ronaldo garnered huge supporters online to back their claim that he is the more popular figure of the two.
So many people think football players are crazy popular. It’s so weird. Like how can you say a football player is more popular than Beyonce? Then name two football players than even I wouldn’t recognize.
Lol
— Imoteda (@imoteda) September 25, 2022
Micheal jackson sold 750 000 tickets in 4 hours , no football team , not even world cup can sell that much tickets in 4 hours .Over 50k people once pulled to his hotel just to look at him even with social media no single footballer can pull such crowd pic.twitter.com/jC9CQinDnI
— Thechairman🙃 (@tobijubril_) September 25, 2022
Bro this is more than 50 thousand people and they are only psg fans
Psg fan base is not even top 5 football biggest fan basehttps://t.co/8BCeJgF4pQ— Akoni Emmanuel (@AkoniEmmanuel) September 26, 2022
Remove players like ronaldo,messi,neymar out,no player is going head to head with Justin Bieber in terms of global popularity apart from those three
— Precious balogun (@Preciousbalogu9) September 25, 2022
Source: Ghanaweb