Regarded by the football world to be currently the best player, the Portuguese forward and captain Cristiano Ronaldo has the highest number of fans in Facebook, as the latest Facebook Fan Map suggests.
Till the latest update, Ronaldo currently has a global fan base of approximately 86,300,000.
In 2008 and 2013, he won the FIFA/Ballon d'Or award for the best footballer in the world, the first Portuguese player to win the award twice.
Despite Ronaldo's popularity across the globe, his fan base in his home country Portugal stands at no. 63 in casting votes in support of the footballer.
Interestingly, Cristiano Ronaldo's maximum number of supporters happens to come from Sri Lanka.
After moving from Manchester United to Real Madrid in 2009 in a transfer worth £80 million ($132 million), Ronaldo became the most expensive footballer in history.
Since joining Manchester United, Ronaldo increasingly drew media attention not only for his enticing performance, but also for his glamour appeal, that ended up in the latest controversial presence in the cover of Vogue magazine.
Recently, Ronaldo made headlines for his nude photo-shoot that he took with his model girlfriend Irina Shayk for Vogue Spain's June 2014 cover.
Ronaldo is expected to play on Sunday with his Portuguese fellow footballers in a match against the United States at 4am [Bangladesh time].