Twitch brings together people from different countries and professions. This includes professional football players who play Fortnite, CS:GO and other popular titles live, participate in entertaining talk shows, and discuss the latest football news. Streams Charts has compiled ten of the biggest channels from former and current masters of the ball.
Casemiro (146.4K followers)
Casemiro is a talented Brazilian midfielder who made his name at Real Madrid and has been with Manchester United since 2022. He is currently a member of the Brazilian national football team.
Casemiro is fond of esports and likes to play CS:GO in his free time. In 2020, he streamed his matches on Twitch quite frequently, but has become a less frequent visitor to the platform in recent years. He held the most popular broadcast in July 2020, when more than 5.8K Peak Viewers watched his CS:GO stream.
Casemiro has his own esports organization called Case Esports. Several rosters in CS:GO, League of Legends, Valorant, and other disciplines perform under this tag.
Mesut Ozil (174.1K followers)
Mesut Ozil is well known to the fans of Real Madrid and Arsenal, for which he played almost 300 matches in total. He was recognized as the best player of the German national team five times, and together he participated in three world championships and two European championships with the national team.
In 2020, Ozil, like many other professional athletes, became interested in playing Fortnite and streaming on Twitch. Although he conducted only a few broadcasts, 174K viewers subscribed to his channel. He could have had a dizzying career as a streamer, but Ozil unexpectedly abandoned broadcasts.
Thibaut Courtois (350.9K followers)
Thibaut Courtois, the goalkeeper of Real Madrid and the Belgian national football team, was once also fond of streaming on Twitch. He has been quite active in streaming in 2020, mainly playing Fortnite, the F1 racing sim, Among Us, Fall Guys, and other games with friends. Often he was invited to events and show matches with star streamers.
The most popular broadcast on the Courtois channel took place in September 2020 and gathered more than 23.5K Peak Viewers. At that time the footballer was playing Among Us with ibai and other well-known content creators.
Ronaldo (421K followers)
Brazilian striker Ronaldo has been called one of the best football players in the history of football and is constantly compared to Pelé. He won the World Cup twice and America's Cup twice, and together with the national team he won the Confederations Cup. He became a two-time winner of the Golden Ball and is the owner of the Golden Boot. During his career, Ronaldo managed to play for PSV, Barcelona, Inter, Real Madrid, and other clubs. In total, Ronaldo played 384 matches at the club level, in which he scored 280 goals.
In 2021, Ronaldo and his crew started a Twitch channel called RonaldoTv. It features regular broadcasts on football topics, and Ronaldo himself often acts as an invited guest and expert. The most popular broadcast on the channel was watched by almost 25K Peak Viewers.
Christian Vieri (536.9K followers)
Italian striker Christian Vieri played for almost half of the teams from Serie A, but spent most of his time at Inter. In 2009, he left the big sport and went into business. In December 2021, he opened a channel on Twitch, where he launched his own talk show called BoboTV (Bobo, Bobo-goal, and Bobone are Vieri's nicknames that fans called him during his career).
Usually, the BoboTV show is broadcast on the Vieri channel 2-3 times a week. Most often on Mondays and Fridays. Interestingly, Vieri does not broadcast by himself only: he is accompanied by his friends, who in the past were also professional football players: Antonio Cassano, Daniele Adani, and Nicola Ventola. The four of them communicate on football topics, discuss the Italian championship and the latest news from the world of sports, and sometimes invite guests. The most popular broadcast on the Vieri channel attracted about 60K Peak Viewers, and on average, broadcasts attract around 11K viewers.
Luis Enrique (843.6K followers)
Luis Enrique is a former Barcelona and Real Madrid midfielder. After completing his career, he became a coach, worked with Barcelona, Roma, and Celta, and also coached the Spanish national team. At the end of 2022, during the World Cup in Qatar, he led a small vlog on Twitch, in which he talked about past matches and assessed the results of other teams in the tournament.
Usually, Enrique's broadcasts went on for a little less than an hour and a half and attracted tens of thousands of fans to the screens. His most popular stream took place on November 18, gathering 120K Average Viewers and 152K Peak Viewers. Enrique's last broadcast took place on December 5th. The following day, the Spanish national team lost to Morocco in the 1/8 finals.
A few days later, Enrique resigned as coach of the national team, which he spoke about in detail in an interview with the Spanish streamer ibai. By the way, he promised to donate all the money received for broadcasts on Twitch to the children's hospice center in Barcelona.
Javier Hernandez (851.4K followers)
Javier Hernandez is the captain of Los Angeles Galaxy, as well as the most productive striker in the history of the Mexican national team. In football circles, he is better known by the nickname Chicharito, which he "inherited" — his father and grandfather also played for the Mexican national team, so Javier is the successor to a large football dynasty.
In recent years, Chicharito has been actively streaming on Twitch. Unlike most of his colleagues, he prefers to play games rather than just talk about football in front of the camera. The Mexican is a big fan of the Call of Duty franchise but occasionally plays other titles like Resident Evil Village or Five Nights at Freddy's 4.
On average, Chicharito's broadcasts gather about 2K viewers, and the Peak Viewers mark reached by his channel was 22.3K viewers — who came to watch him play Warzone.
Gerard Pique (1.6M followers)
Gerard Pique is a Spanish defender who has played for Barcelona FC and the national team. In November 2022, he ended his career and entered the media business. In particular, he became one of the founders of the Spanish media football tournament Kings League, in which semi-professional teams are run by ex-football players and top streamers, such as Sergio Aguero, Iker Casillas, ibai, TheGrafg, and others.
Kings League matches are broadcast on Twitch channel of the same name, which is owned by Pique. The football player himself is not a streamer in the usual sense of the word but regularly appears on the channel as a guest and football expert. Today the kingsleague channel is one of the leaders in the Sports section on Twitch. So far, its broadcasts have attracted 103K Average Viewers and 824.1K Peak Viewers.
Neymar (2.1M followers)
Neymar is one of the most technically gifted players in the world, with a number of records and many sporting trophies to his credit. The media coverage of the Brazilian PSG striker is so great that even those who are not at all interested in football have heard about him. Neymar is also an avid gamer who enjoys playing CS:GO, Fortnite, PUBG, Call of Duty, and other shooters, as well as hanging out with esports players.
Neymar launched his own channel in 2017, but the Brazilian rarely broadcasts live as he has not yet completed his football career and cannot devote much time to his hobby. Usually, Neymar's channel broadcasts some events with his participation. These can range from sponsored presentations to game show matches featuring top streamers like Ninja or TheGrefg. So far, streams on the Brazilian striker's channel have attracted 28K Average Viewers and 109K Peak Viewers — the latter happened on October 1, 2020, when Neymar played CS:GO and streamed his matches for fans.
Sergio Aguero (4.5M followers)
Former striker of the Argentina national team Sergio Aguero was once famous as one of the most decorated players in the history of Manchester City, and now he can compete with top Twitch streamers. His channel on the platform has more than 4.5M followers in just two years of streaming activity.
Due to heart problems, Aguero ended his football career quite early, at the age of 32. After that, he switched to live streaming and devoted himself entirely to the development of his esports club KRÜ Esports, where he is the founder and CEO. Aguero's content is mainly about football: match and transfer reviews, football talk shows, coverage of the Kings League, etc.
The streams of the Argentine gather around 14K Average Viewers, but on December 7, 2022, his stream gathered a whopping 248K Peak Viewers. It happened when Aguero was interviewing Lionel Messi, who, along with the Argentina national team, played at the World Cup in Qatar. By the way, Aguero and Messi are not only former teammates but also relatives. Messi is the godfather of Benjamin, Aguero's son.
