Ronaldo opens his own museum
By Paulo Áureo
In April 2007 this blog wondered whether Cristiano Ronaldo would turn out as good as Maradona or Pelé. By December 2013 he had enough silverware to need a building for it.
The CR7 Museum opened on 15 December 2013 in a 400 m² space on Rua Imperatriz Dona Amélia in Funchal, with 126 trophies from his first club Andorinha, Nacional, Sporting, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Portugal, plus photographs, videos and a wax Ronaldo for selfies. A few weeks later he won the Ballon d’Or again, and the shelves got busier.
In 2016 the museum moved to a space more than three times bigger by the marina, under the new Pestana CR7 hotel. It is an easy stop on a walk through Funchal, with or without a football fan in the family.