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Video: Cristiano Ronaldo Celebrates Breaking YouTube Record with His Channel Launch

Cristiano Ronaldo celebrated the historic debut of his YouTube channel on Wednesday.

The legendary soccer star released a video unveiling a golden "play button," which is given to channels for surpassing one million subscribers, in front of his children.

The channel was an immediate success, hitting one million subscribers within 90 minutes of launching and becoming the fastest channel to ever achieve the milestone, per ESPN's Adriana Garcia.

The five-time Ballon d'Or winner posted 19 videos to the account, which has now racked up 21.6 million YouTube subscribers.