Ronaldo’s sudden interest in return to US is World Cup Trump card that Fifa craves | Cristiano Ronaldo

Iis still sure to stage the World Cup in the United States? After more evidence in line this extreme nature of American armed violence, some may conclude that the answer is no. Nine months from the opening match, it is now almost impossible to ignore this. But believe it or not, the statistics suggest that more than 300 people will have been shot in America last Wednesday.

The same issue will also be shot down on Friday, Saturday, every day next week and every day of the year of the world. On average, 127 of these unnamed people and largely not famous who are not called things such as the influencer of Superstar Charlie Kirk will die every day. In this area, deaths by firearms for young people will be both alarming and a register of social injustice: a disproportionate of 46% of all the young drawn will be black.

So maybe Wednesday’s events really suggest that America is not an appropriate World Cup animator. Perhaps this has not been for some time, as African media members suggested by questioning Gianni Infantino in Nairobi a few days ago, expressing the alarm in the face of hostile policies of the special friend of the president of FIFA, Donald Trump.

Fortunately, Infantino clarified this on the spot. It is apparently “a false idea” that the United States could be a hostile or dangerous place for non-white visitors, which is undoubtedly a relief for all those concerned. Today, I feel like a worried black African football tourist. But what do you know? With the advantage of this unique insight, Gianni, I decided that everything was fine, so continue.

You can always have concerns or consider infantino insurance are exactly what you might expect from a person who seems to be entirely made up of a cylinder of reconstituted human inauthenticity, Kebab-Meat style, in a navy blue suit. Or that FIFA is already an accomplice of this state of alarm. The World Cup will offer a boost of several billion dollars and a brilliant sport purity to a regime that has used immigration theaters to alarm its inhabitants and imposed brutal visa on people of the bad type of competing nation.

But there is at least one tree of light here. Before anyone who cares too much to travel to America too much for the World Cup, there was a suggestion this week that a very influential person could be about to reverse this trend. Enter: Cristiano Ronaldo, who is fortunate to demonstrate that he is finally sure to return to the water, a year in Trump 2.0.

It was a few good weeks for Ronaldo. He first received a complete treatment of superstar hysteria during the Saudi super cup in Hong Kong, which included being assailed during a surprise visit to a Tsim Sha Tsui museum. A museum, you say? An elite fitness powder emporium, or a skyscraper entirely made from yak and parmesan fur? But it was a museum devoted entirely to the works of Cristiano Ronaldo, its official title The CR7 Life Museum, which certainly resembles the best museum, a very large and very beautiful museum.

And from Wednesday, Ronaldo is now online for a return to the United States after an unexplained distance. According to a story published for the first time in The Athletic, Portugal is in talks to play a friendly match against the United States next March. The last time Ronaldo played in America was a summer tour for Real Madrid in 2014. The last time he was photographed, there was in 2016.

This is important development. Ronaldo always has a life contract with Nike and has accompanied large ticket approval agreements. He even put his name to an NFT collaboration which has now collapsed in legal chaos, with Ronaldo at some point a part named in a collective appeal, which can or may not be a related factor, no one really knows.

What is certain is its absence of decade of the largest consumption economy in the world, no visits, no appearance of brand creation, no major league soccer contract, has left millions of dollars on the table, for a Ronaldo-Industrial complex which definitely loves millions of dollars. There is therefore probably a good reason.

Ronaldo never commented on this. There are no charges, and certainly no convictions. In fact, everything seems to have been a terrible misunderstanding. But his absence coincides directly with the appearance of allegations in 2017, still vehemently denied, that Ronaldo sexually assaulted a teacher called Kathryn Mayorga in Las Vegas in 2009, and then offered a payment to not stop.

The case was reopened in 2018, took place until 2022 and, it seems that, it seems, died a death. Nothing means that Ronaldo’s presence in the United States would not have been welcomed with demonstrations, bad publicity, a reign of a kind of action. Pre-season visits to its various clubs during this period remained away from the States. No photos, no Talkshow stuff, not temporary agree with the Kansas City Wangdoodles.

And now it seems that the waters have gotten rid of. And that is, let’s face it, difficult not to associate this with a change of voice, of power dynamics, of names at the top. Trump loves winners. Trump loves Vibey, rich male guys. Trump knows what it is to undergo historical allegations that will simply not disappear. Trump technically even has the power to offer legal forgiveness, even to a foreign national, even before any accusation is made or likely to be made.

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And it’s really a time of crisis at the end of his career for Ronaldo, 40, always a goal scorer, and with a chance to dive a toe in these waters before the World Cup, where he really needs to be present to energize both the tournament and his own brand heritage.

For those who followed his amazing professional existence, it is also a chance to understand a little more clearly what Ronaldo is, which is still slightly mysterious. In many ways, football has still not really accepted the magnificent monster it has built.

Ronaldo is undoubtedly the most famous person in the world, already the most followed in Instagram in front of Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, God, authentic human feeling and various Kardashians. During the club World Cup this summer, he was massively present despite not participating, anecdotically the most prominent and obsessive footballer that most local populations could appoint.

It is also deeply deep now, the most important unique catalyst of a transformation of sport into a global platform focused on the brand, a national power arm, a machine of content of constantly amplified celebrities.

For all this, it is always difficult to understand the question of the basic question why exactly Ronaldo is so famous. It is clear that he is a magnificent footballer. But again. Why the state of pure and simple worship? Why is it so far ahead of everyone in this area? Understanding this is to understand the Internet and the strangely intimate nature of online fame.

Ronaldo is perfect for the Internet. He embodies his obsessions: self -taught triumph, motivational success, bodily obsession, aesthetics resembling porn. Ronaldo mastered his routines, his richness accumulated spectacularly. As a facial signifier, a human logo, it has this indefinitely higher quality of online hyper-cell. Many people are beautiful. Ronaldo is beautiful in a way that is always him, a face, a pack of six, a hot neck on which you only have to click.

What does it look like? A perfectly glazed wedding cake figurine. A hyper-advanced robot replicant at the Captain of the Interstellar Fleet Captain. An avatar of human immortality in mass, Yeti-Sperm and Cupidity.

This is often formulated in a sort of strange reverence. “For most of my life, I have always been worried not to be able to see Ronaldo,” a member of the crowd of the Saudi Cup at the South China Morning Post told the crowd. Another said: “I like Ronaldo because of his values, what he represents is very respectable.”

Is that what it is? Order in a crazy and dysfunctional world. Devotional perfection. Success, realization, compacted in a single enlightened square. Ronaldo also arrived first, colonized this space, understood his own power before anyone. And now, he has a chance, if the stars align, to break the last border of consumers, to conquer America decisively next summer, the decks finally clear and with a president at hand which will be very interested in any index of a collaboration of brand creation.

Call me cynical, paranoid, subject to conspiracy, but it seems inconceivable that there was no pre-cat, a feeling of feeling, a group of development of what it can mean, in terms of optics, good and bad, finally to obtain Ronaldo at this stage.

There are so many strange and manipulative aspects for America’s public contortions at the moment, so many aspects that seem out of control, leading directly to a World Cup where even the logo seems slightly sinister, a strange stamp of dates black cancer which oozes this emblematic and thrilling gold trophy. Ronaldo To America feels like a very natural extension, ultra-influencer, here to bring peace, and especially to broadcast his own version of the irresistibly monetized human theater.