- a bronze sculpture of a Portuguese football player installed at Madeira Airport. The statue of Ronaldo looks like an athlete very remotely and looks very funny. Photos with the statue have become viral, collages and photo-toads are made with them.
Origin
At the end of March 2017, a bronze bust of Cristiano Ronaldo by sculptor Emanuel Santos was unveiled at the Madeira Island airport. The airport itself, by the way, also received a name famous football player. The captain of the Portugal national football team personally took part in the opening ceremony.
A discussion began on the Internet - does the statue look like Ronaldo. Some have noted that the bronzed face is more reminiscent of the English dancer and comedian Mark Berry. Other netizens did not look for similarities with other characters, but simply began to massively rivet photo-toads with a funny statue of Cristiano. The frightening physiognomy of many caused associations with horror films.
Facts
In 2012, in the Portuguese city of Funchal, where Ronaldo grew up, a full-length bronze statue of a football player appeared. And she was weird too. For some reason, the sculptor paid excessive attention to the athlete's lower body.
Gallery
The opening ceremony of the monument to Cristiano Ronaldo took place. The Portuguese footballer was present at this event and expressed his gratitude for the honor shown to him. In parallel with this, the local administration of the island came up with a proposal to rename Madeira Airport to Cristiano Ronaldo Airport. The initiative was supported and accepted, and the player himself once again thanked all those present and said that he was proud of his homeland and hometown.
Funny statue of Ronaldo erected at Madeira airport
But this is far from main news this evening. The pedestal in honor of the footballer caused an incredible public outcry: social media users began to ridicule and criticize the presented memorial in honor of the owner of four golden balls. The thing is that the monument itself is surprisingly ridiculous and funny. It can be seen with the naked eye that the pedestal of Cristiano Ronaldo does not at all look like the original.
Statue of Ronaldo in Portugal draws laughter from football fans
Fans and fans of the Portuguese football player began to actively express their dissatisfaction with the bust of Cristiano Ronaldo. One of them wrote the following: “This pedestal of a great football player is a real parody. You can't help but laugh when you see this cartoon." Together with that locals Madeira Islands, where Cristiano himself comes from, began collecting signatures for a petition so that the airport would not be renamed after the football player. However, the city administration ignored this gesture and nevertheless assigned a new name to the air harbor.
What happened in social networks after the installation of the monument
The monument to Ronaldo has become almost the most discussed news of the week. Users social network Twitter began to create various memes about this. The most popular joke is shown in the photo below.
You can't help but laugh at this picture. You just look at the contented and cheerful face of a football player. You might think that he had incontinence, and he is even pleased with this. And in this photograph, the author edited the original to fit the newly-made bust.
There is another monument in honor of Ronaldo
Discussing this resonant news, some social media users remembered another statue that was not spared by criticism. On December 22, 2014, on the same island of Madeira, a 2.4-meter monument was erected in honor of Cristiano Ronaldo. Then the football player was also present at its opening and expressed respect and gratitude to his compatriots. The statue of the Portuguese does not cause laughter as long as the audience does not pay attention to the intimate detail ... Apparently, the sculptor overdid it a little ...
At the beginning of last year, the Argentinean Lionel Messi received the fifth Ballon d'Or of his career. Fans of Lionel desecrated the monument to Ronaldo, dousing it with red paint and writing the name and number of the new owner of the Golden Ball on the back.
In view of this incident, the monument was moved to the Cristiano Ronaldo Museum.
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On Wednesday, March 29, a ceremony was held on the island of Madeira to rename the airport in honor of the striker of Real Madrid and the Portuguese national team Cristiano Ronaldo.
President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa also unveiled a new bronze bust Ronaldo, which will stand at the entrance to the airport.
Disservice
Life is unpredictable. Yesterday you were the hero of the whole country, who gave Portugal the first European championship in its history, and today you are turning into a worldwide laughing stock.
We don’t know if there is an analogue of the expression “disservice” in Portuguese, but a resident of Madeira Manuel Santos showed it to his eminent fellow countryman, deciding to sculpt the famous football player in metal.
The former airport janitor began his career as a sculptor just two years ago, on a tight deadline of two weeks. Well, what could go wrong?
Though Cristiano Ronaldo tries to smile and even found the strength to thank the people of Madeira for the honor done to him, it is clear that the leader of Real Madrid is not at all delighted.
Many fans and journalists immediately rated the bust as "doubtful" and "terrifying", but Manuel Santos he did not hesitate, saying that everyone equally likes only banknotes, and the artist sees it that way.
Uncover photoshops
Internet users immediately rushed to note the unprecedented similarity between the sculpture and the original.
I don't know what you're talking about guys, I think the Ronaldo statue looks pretty good pic.twitter.com/GY4zAvmrNb
aadam (@aadambirmingham) March 29, 2017
Those who doubted the similarity of the statue and the football player decided to slightly increase the similarity.
There were also those who doubted that the statue depicts Ronaldo. After all, she looks more like the Latvian center Knicks Kristaps Porzingis.
Or is it an actor Willem Dafoe?
So this is Cristiano Ronaldo's statue at Cristiano Ronaldo Airport in Madeira, Portugal. pic.twitter.com/iPnVu57jOT
Pedro Guerreiro (@PedroAGuerr) March 29, 2017
Last Action Hero
However, do not admit that the metal Ronaldo looks scary, no.
But this is the quality that any horror movie star will need. For the frightening Ronaldo already picked up several projects where he can shine.
Bronze Ronaldo everything will appear in nightmares, even Ronaldo himself.
Bust Ronaldo will fit perfectly not only in a horror film, but also in almost any other film - from an action movie to a melodrama.
Cristiano Ronaldo and the Last Crusade
However, Cristiano and he himself would be perfect as an actor in some next film adaptation of Marvel comics.
In the morning in the verse, in the evening in the newspaper
The famous football cartoonist did not stand aside either. Omar Momani. It is felt that the bronze Ronaldo will be registered in his works for some time.
Midnight is approaching, and Ronaldo .. oh my God, here he is!
The second pancake is lumpy
Here it would be appropriate to recall that this is not the first attempt to capture Cristiano Ronaldo in metal, but none can be considered successful.
On Wednesday took place solemn ceremony renaming the airport on the island of Madeira in honor of the football player of the Portuguese national team Cristiano Ronaldo. The public was also presented with a bust in honor of the Real Madrid striker.
The copy, frightening in its dissimilarity, rather resembled a caricature of a 32-year-old athlete. It is not known whether the hero of the occasion, who visited the opening personally, liked the bust. Cristiano confidently avoided questions from the press, speaking only of inner pride in the honor.
Moreover, this is not the first time that the Portuguese and other players have to blush for his monumental copy. Sports Day by Day found the most ridiculous and strange monuments erected in honor of football players and combined them in its selection.
More Cristiano Ronaldo
The bust at Maidera Airport is not the first failed attempt to capture the Portuguese superstar. In 2010, Nike installed a ten-meter monument to Ronaldo in Plaza de Ramales in Madrid for one day for promotional purposes. Then the monument was dismantled and transported to one of the shopping centers of the capital of Portugal. But even after the move, only a very attentive Lisbon buyer can find at least a remote resemblance of the statue to a football player.
David Beckham
Another "victim" of the advertising campaign was David Beckham. In 2012, a silver statue of an English footballer under the H&M brand traveled around the world. The extremely photogenic Briton was this time pictured with a worried expression on his face. But the real reason for the hype and thousands of photos was not the frightened look of the superstar, but the absence of any clothes on the statue other than branded underpants.
However, the half-naked sculpture is at least similar to its prototype. In the park of the South Korean Eumsong there is another monument dedicated to Beckham. Despite the cost of more than 10 thousand dollars, only one of the many hairstyles of the British football player turned out to be recognizable.
Zinedine Zidane and Marco Materation
Most bright moment final match World Cup 2006, when the Frenchman Zinedine Zidane hit his head in the chest of the Italian Marco Materazzi, immortalized in bronze under the title "Who's afraid of the terrible wolf?". Created in 2012 by Algerian artist Abdel Abdessemed, the sculpture has traveled across three continents.
Starting her journey from the David Zwirner Gallery in New York, she ended up on a Qatari beach in transit through Paris. However, the 5-meter monument did not enjoy the sun of Doha for long. Three months later, following numerous complaints from Islamic conservatives, the “promotion of idolatry” sculpture was moved to the Arab Museum of Modern Art, where it remains to this day.
Carlos Valderrama
Player of the century in Colombia, record holder of his national team in the number of matches played and a true legend - all this is Carlos Valderrama. The only representative of Colombia, who was included in the list of 125 the best players in the history of football according to FIFA, received a bronze copy in 2002. It is almost impossible not to recognize Carlos in the statue. Thanks to the ingenuity of the sculpture, the monument in Santa Marta acquired colored hair just to match the memorable hairstyle of the athlete himself.
Ted Bates
The statue of the veteran and manager of the English "Southampton" Ted Bates at first did not look legendary at all. After 18 months of painstaking work on the sculpture, Saints fans saw only a disproportionate figure with short legs and long arms installed in front of the home stadium. However, later Ian Brennan's masterpiece was nevertheless replaced with a more believable copy of Bates.
Eden Hazard
The authorities of the Belgian city of Tubize immortalized their connection with the country's leading footballer, in 2014 presenting to the general public a statue of Eden Hazard. It is noteworthy that in order to save money, the image of the Belgian striker was applied to the frame of an old surrealist sculpture in 1986 in honor of Michel Platini. The work was entrusted to the creator of the original, Roberto Oliveiro. All the strangeness of the substitution of football players is visible to the naked eye.
Neymar
The tin Brazilian wunderkind proudly flaunts in the Santos Club Museum in Brazil. The futuristic Neymar is barely recognizable by the branded tuft on his head made of an unknown gold material. Perhaps the author hinted at the brilliant game of the football player, generously pasting the statue with a layer of foil.