Cristiano Ronaldo: The moment 'IShowSpeed' learns Man Utd icon knows him | OneFootball

YouTube sensation ‘IShowSpeed’ holds a pretty strong claim as the biggest Cristiano Ronaldo fan in the land.

Constantly waxing lyrical about the former Manchester United striker on his viral streams, Speed seems destined to meet his hero one day in what is fast becoming an ongoing saga.

After all, the 17-year-old flew across the Atlantic Ocean in a bid to see Ronaldo in action back in November, only to learn that the five-time Ballon d’Or wouldn’t be featuring in what proved to be Erik ten Hag’s final match-day squads before his exit.

Has Speed ever seen Ronaldo?

And while Speed did finally succeed in seeing Ronaldo with his own two eyes at the 2022 World Cup, things probably didn’t pan out quite how he imagined.

The internet star was shocked to see that Fernando Santos had dropped his captain for the knockout games against Switzerland and Morocco that he had flown to Qatar to witness.

Yes, of course, Ronaldo did indeed come off the bench in both encounters, but Speed ultimately never saw his hero start a game as Portugal crashed out of the tournament in tepid style.

As such, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the stars might never quite align for Speed to bag the fairy-tale meeting with Ronaldo that he so badly craves.

Unless, that is, Rafael Leão is able to pull some strings and serve as a go-between for Ronaldo and Speed to finally share the same room.

Does Ronaldo know who Speed is?

And we say that because Leão made a surprising appearance on Speed’s latest livestream on Wednesday, picking up a video call to the surprise of even the YouTuber himself.

The pair soon started conversing before the eyes of millions of viewers and Speed eventually asked the million-dollar question: does Ronaldo actually know who he is?

And, well, to the utter delight of Speed, Leão was indeed able to reveal that Ronaldo is aware of who he is and even knows about the – how we say it? – change to the pronunciation of his trademark ‘SIUUU’ celebration that has become a staple of his livestreams.

All in all it made for a very surreal moment that Speed was understandably chuffed about, so be sure to check out the clip before everybody else does down below:

To be fair, you know you’re famous when Ronaldo is familiar with you. Fair play, Speed.

And with both Ronaldo aware of him and Speed having connections with a key Portugal teammate, there’s every reason to believe that we’re one step closer to getting the moment that everybody’s been waiting for.

It’s a little surreal and heady to imagine Speed running towards Ronaldo while barking and whipping out his ‘Suey’ version of the celebration, but it would certainly be gold, that’s for sure.

Speed will just have to keep his eye out as to where Ronaldo goes next after his United divorce and you never know, his dream might come true.