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Cristiano Ronaldo is making headlines for an off-game moment that has sparked mixed reactions online. The Portuguese football star recently had a brief exchange with a fan who closely resembled him, fans believe was humorous. However, Ronaldo’s reaction did leave netizens divided.
The incident took place on Friday at Al Awwal Park in Riyadh. It was just before his club Al-Nassr’s match against Al-Shabab in the Saudi Pro League. In an X video clip, Ronaldo is seen warming up when he notices the fan who was dressed in a Portugal shirt, sporting a slicked-back hairstyle similar to his own.
The fan, identified as Gökmen Akdoğan, is a social media personality known for his resemblance to the footballer. Addressing his lookalike, Ronaldo stated with a smirk:
“Bro, you don’t look like me, you are very ugly.”
Gökmen responded, saying:
“You are the best, bro!”
The short interaction ended with both exchanging smiles and a thumbs-up. While the fan seemingly took it in stride, social media did not. The clip was quick to go viral.
Social media divided over Cristiano Ronaldo’s comments
As the video spread across platforms like X, Instagram, and TikTok, opinions varied. Some found it as Ronaldo’s blunt humor, while others felt it was rude and uncalled for.
Pop Base shared the clip on its official X handle, captioning,
"Cristiano Ronaldo calls a lookalike ugly: “You don’t look like me, you’re very ugly”"
Netizens gathered in the comment section of the post to share their thoughts. Here are what some of them had to share:
"That was actually very rude of him," edeclared an X user.
"So he lowkey called himself ugly," joked another.
"He’s clearly messing around, don’t you see him smiling afterwards? Ppl don’t even get a joke nowadays," opined a third.
"He was on the verge of tears," claimed a fourth referring to Gökmen Akdoğan, the lookalike.
Many others chimed in.
"This is why Messi is better," declared a netizen.
"If any of yalls fav artists did this, they would get canceled," wrote another user.
"He must’ve forgot what he looked like at sporting before the surgery lmao," penned a third.
"Cristiano Ronaldo is right the lookalike did not look like him," stated a fourth user.
"But why did he call him ugly? that was uncalled for and rude... and he's not ugly at all.. he's just a bitter old footballer & his ego got hurt when someone was being considered to be his look alike and that tells everything about his narcissistic personality," added a fifth.
Gökmen Akdoğan is from Adana, Turkey. He has over 1.5 million followers on TikTok and 15 million likes across his content. He mainly posts comedic sketches, football-related videos, and interactions with fans who mistake him for the Portuguese superstar, Times Now reports.
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