Cristiano Ronaldo, the world’s No. 1 football player, is also a prankster when he is not in the football field.
On March 26, he actually put on a major prank on Portugal teammate Ricardo Quaresma by wrapping the winger’s sports car with aluminium foil. He subsequently posted the image of the fully-covered vehicle that is his handiwork on his Twitter account.
Ronaldo was able to pull of the prank with the help from his sponsors Nike, to make Quaresma’s car look like his latest pair of boots, details Yahoo! Sports.
The aluminum foil–covered car also had the “CR7” large lettering on it, which is the name of the shiny Nike mercurial boots that Ronaldo was also showing off standing before the side of Quaresma’s car.
This year’s Ballon d’Or winner also captioned his tweet by calling the attention of Ricardo Quaresma and saying that he did it because he wanted his Portugal teammate to have a little more speed for their next match, ending it with hashtag Mercurial, referring to his Nike brand of football shoes.
Cristiano is actually hoping to give the F.C. Porto stalwart, who used to play for Chelsea too, to have more speed for Portugal’s upcoming 2016 qualifier match with Serbia.
Taking it in stride
Ricardo Quaresma took the prank of Ronaldo in stride, as he too appears to be endorsing Nike’s latest line of football shoes, which is called the CR7.
In his tweet, Quaresma said that he just saw the Nike Football snapchat with Ronaldo and he can’t believe that the world’s No. 1 football player could do such to his car. He also ended his tweet with hashtag Mercurial, which only shows that he is also a product endorser of Nike for that particular football line of shoes.
Despite his team Real Madrid suffering another defeat in the hands of La Liga nemesis Barcelona during last Sunday’s Classico match, Ronaldo is confident that he can gain the needed momentum during the International break as his team make the final push on the Spanish premiere league.
In a spunk
Cristiano Ronaldo has been on a spunk since the start of 2015, or around the time after he was handed the Ballon d’Or plum early in the year.
While he has already scored 10 goals for 2015, including the lone goal he scored last Sunday during the match against Barcelona, since the Holiday break, that output is way below the standards for a premier footballer like Ronaldo. Such number is huge for above-average football players, but definitely not for Ronaldo.
Game experts have actually noticed that Ronaldo does not appear to be too happy on the football pitch for quite some time now. Still, the No. 1 football player in the world finds nothing wrong if he fools around occasionally with his international teammate rather than focusing his attention heavily on Real Madrid.