2023-11-27 12:03:00
Ronaldo inaugurated a museum in Riyadh
Portuguese star Cristiano Ronaldo, attacker of Al Nassr of the Saudi Pro League, inaugurated his own museum in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, where a set of memorabilia of his most notable moments and the awards he won throughout his career is on display. .
Just as they did in his hometown of Funchal, the former Real Madrid player was the protagonist of a special day in which he visited his new exhibition and was photographed in some key places. One of them was the space they reserved to plant a statue of him, which was highly questioned by fans on social networks.
“It’s like the statues don’t get along with El Bicho,” considered one fan, remembering the episode he experienced a couple of years ago with the sculpture that the artist Emanuel Santos had made at the airport on the island of Madeira.
In 2018, following a flood of memes, the author of that questioned work stated in an interview with BR Football that, “people have to understand that art is a form of expression, it is not an exact science,” and defended its creation. : “If I hadn’t done it the way I did, it would have been forgotten a long time ago (…) Sometimes you have to go once morest the norm and make an impact.”
“I didn’t know that Cristiano was playing for Al Nassr when he was 23,” another joked when he saw the footballer next to his replica. “They gave him a haircut that he never used”, “he has Messi’s hair”, and “he looks more like Dybala”, were more comments that the photograph garnered on the networks.
Beyond that, Cristiano Ronaldo’s new space includes all the individual awards achieved by the player throughout his sporting career, as well as copies of the main awards he won with the Portuguese football team and with the teams in the who has been active.
The head of the Saudi Entertainment Authority, Turki Al Sheikh, announced in September that the museum dedicated to the Portuguese star would be inaugurated in the Boulevard City area during the Riyadh Season festival, and it was opened to the public last Wednesday.
A video published by Turki Al Sheikh on his X platform account, formerly known as Twitter, showed Ronaldo touring the interior of the museum with his brother Hugo Aveiro and inspecting its most notable elements.
The same video was posted by Ronaldo on Instagram, where he commented: “This is my story, my CR7 museum is now open in Riyadh.”
Ronaldo visited the museum hours following starring in a great performance in a league match with Al Akhood (3-0), in which he scored two goals that helped him stay in the race for top scorer in the Saudi League. The Portuguese has already scored 15 goals, 4 more than Al Hilal forward Aleksandar Mitrovic, who is the second highest scorer in the local competition.
Ronaldo statue in Riyadh
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