Cristiano Ronaldo can be said to be quite lucky in life. In sports, he won practically all possible laurels, and the airport on his native island has now been named after the star of the Real Madrid football club, which is now called Cristiano Ronaldo Airport instead of Madeira. On this occasion, a bust of him was also unveiled, which, to put it mildly, is very strange and new to the line of Ronaldo statues, which set off bursts of laughter, even the pranksters on duty immediately took the bait. Check out the funniest reactions to his new statue.
Ronaldo is at the airport Madeira, which is henceforth called Cristiano Ronaldo Airport (the renaming was promised by the island authorities in the event of Portugal's success on Euro 2016), got a statue, which is probably not the most proud of him. If there's one thing the Portuguese superstar is unlucky with in life, it's statues. It also confirms this bronze bust on the airport.
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He also attended the event with its ceremonial unveiling the Portuguese political elite, including President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Prime Minister Antonio Costa. Even before that, they opened his own in Funchal, Ronaldo's birthplace museum and placed bronze life size statue, which is just a poor approximation of a football grandmaster. "For such a handsome man, Ronaldo has a lot of bad luck with sculptors," we read on Twitter. The latest statue has attracted a lot of attention, and it has also been clawed online pranksters on call. Below are the funniest responses, and this is what the statue's creator, Emanuel Santos, said: ”It is impossible to satisfy both the Greeks and the Trojans at the same time. Even Jesus could not satisfy everyone. Here it is a matter of taste, and the assessment of such work is not as simple as it seems. […] What really counts in the end is the resonance of such an artwork.”
The world mocks the statue of Cristiano Ronaldo:
