There are perhaps few greater honours for a football player to receive than a statue to mark their accomplishments within the game.
The likes of David Beckham, Bill Shankly and Sir Alex Ferguson have all been immortalised in metal, but it was an infamous bust of Cristiano Ronaldo in Madeira that perhaps garnered the most attention in recent history.
Designed by Emanuel Santos, the bronze statue netted a resoundingly negative response when it was unveiled in March 2017 as a part of a ceremony renaming Madeira’s airport to Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport.
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Many detractors felt the sculpture did not look enough much like the then-Real Madrid star, who attended the ceremony and had input on the design of the statue.