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Who is the all time most famous athlete in the world?
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Saying the rest of the world doesn't know or care about Jordan is absolutely false. Go to any of those streetside shops anywhere in Europe or Asia, and all you'll see are fake/real Jordan (and Steph Curry) jerseys. People might not know his EXACT number of accomplishments, but he's well known as the GOAT basketball player everywhere
Also, not knowing who Cristiano Ronaldo is...how is this even possible in this modern era? It doesn't even matter if you watch the sport or not; he's literally the face/one of the faces of many of the biggest companies on Earth
Even back in the early-mid 2000s the meathead American football players at my high school used to call him all sorts of homophobic names because of how much the girls liked him
Perspective.
Speaking for MY people that don't watch futbol AT ALL, not knowing CR is not knowing a top music act in a music genre that traditionally hasn't made music for black people.
It is VERY easy not to know who dude is
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Its 2 billion chinese and 2 billion Indians and like 2 billion black people... unless 1/2 of them like soccer more than basketball or football this statement is invalid
You know soccer is the most popular sport in the world right?
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ESPN has a list and a cricket player is number 6 or something. A goddamn cricket player. I get it, population of India is wild but still, no damn cricket player should be on it.
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Are you referring to black people in general or black people in your neighborhood/community?
If it's the former, I have no idea how you can attribute not knowing Cristiano Ronaldo to race, as football has MASSIVE numbers of black fans all over Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa. Black Americans not knowing who he is=Americans being oblivious to rest of the world in general
Don't want to sound like I'm caping for him; he's an alleged rapist and the news is hardly paying attention to the investigation, but that's beside the point
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this dude just throwin out numbers or what?
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Math isn't real, remember?
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To put it in perspective
The most watched superbowl bad 114 MILLION viewers.
The most watched NBA finals had 90 MILLION in the last 5 minutes of the Cavs comeback over the warriors.
The world cup averages 3 BILLION viewers and ronaldo has been to FOUR.
That's 12 BILLION people times the number of household tv's in the world (1.4 billion )
That's 16.8 billion and if you round up that basically means that 17 BILLION people in the world know who Cristiano ronaldo is.
The most watched superbowl bad 114 MILLION viewers.
The most watched NBA finals had 90 MILLION in the last 5 minutes of the Cavs comeback over the warriors.
The world cup averages 3 BILLION viewers and ronaldo has been to FOUR.
That's 12 BILLION people times the number of household tv's in the world (1.4 billion )
That's 16.8 billion and if you round up that basically means that 17 BILLION people in the world know who Cristiano ronaldo is.
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Inner city black folks that don't follow futbol is who I am referring to.
My point is it isn't far fetched for people in THAT demo to not know who CR is.
That is all I am saying here.
That is my ONLY point about the, "How can ypu not know CR" question.
Quite possible
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It's also estimated 350+ million people watch the CL Final which Ronaldo won in '14, '15, '16, and '17.
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So twice the number of people on this planet know Cristiano Ronaldo. Will be tough to top that number.
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Is anyone arguing against him being the #1 current athlete?
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Op should have put up a poll or should put up a poll.
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Should also specify if we talking current/active or all time.
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Dikembe Mutombo is one the more famous basketball players
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There's so many inner city ppl that do know CR7 tho, black and otherwise, even ones that don't watch soccer until the world cup types know him. Especially with as many ppl that play fifa too
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It's some Foxy Brown Affirmative Action maths going on in here
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I feel like if you show 100 random people a picture of Ronaldo, 30 will know who he is. He could still be the most popular athlete in the world, but in America, he's not that recognizable.
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Again read.
I am not saying if they do or DON'T , I am saying the ones THAT don't is a completely possible situation and isn't as far fetched as some are making it out to be.
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