In September 2022, former professional motorcycle road racer and Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champion Valentino Rossi was the most-followed Italian-language athlete on the photo sharing app Instagram, with approximately 14.2 million followers. Footballer Mario Balotelli Barwuah who currently plays for Swiss Super League club Sion, ranked second with 10.5 milion followers, while footballer Gianluigi Buffon Instagram's page reported ten million followers.
Football teams and Instagram
The photo app Instagram seems to be quite often utilized by football teams in order to promote their image and increase their engagement with fans.
Considering the Instagram number of likes of the Juventus FC, the number of likes peaked on the 5th of February with 2,147,026 likes, as well as on the 15th of February, when the number of likes reached 2,435,454.
Leading teams
As of August 2020, Juventus FC was the leading club on Instagram with the highest number of followers (41.37 million), followed by AC Milan (8.06 million) and FC Internazionale Milano (5.37 million). Lastly, AS Roma, and SSC Naples reached 3.36 million and 2.29 million fans on Instagram, respectively. If we observe the ranking of the most popular players belonging to the Juventus FC, Cristiano Ronaldo was first, followed by Paulo Dybala and Gianluigi Buffon.
Leading Italian-language athletes on Instagram worldwide as of September 2022, by followers
(in millions)
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