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 Júnior, 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.
Leading Portuguese-language athletes on Instagram worldwide as of September 2022, by followers
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