{"id":69861,"date":"2025-07-07T10:25:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69861"},"modified":"2025-07-07T10:25:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:25:03","slug":"hong-kong-unveils-first-cr7-museum-to-celebrate-ronaldos-iconic-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/07\/hong-kong-unveils-first-cr7-museum-to-celebrate-ronaldos-iconic-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Unveils First CR7 Museum to Celebrate Ronaldo\u2019s Iconic Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of fans thronged a luxury mall in Hong Kong on Monday for the grand opening of the CR7 LIFE Museum, the first exhibition outside Portugal dedicated to football legend Cristiano Ronaldo.<\/p>\n<p>The museum showcases Ronaldo\u2019s illustrious career with displays of his Golden Boot, signature jerseys, rare memorabilia, and life-sized statues, including one in traditional Saudi attire, highlighting his recent move to Al Nassr.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a dream come true,\u201d said 14-year-old Alvin Lai, first in line among over 100 fans. University student Henry Singh added, \u201cHe\u2019s 40 and still going strong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The launch coincides with Ronaldo\u2019s new two-year deal with Al Nassr and the club\u2019s scheduled pre-season tournament in Hong Kong next month.<\/p>\n<p>Tomas Froes, a representative of Ronaldo\u2019s family office, hinted that the five-time Ballon d\u2019Or winner may visit the museum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis space inspires people to dream big,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Covering 12,000 square feet, the exhibition will remain in Hong Kong for a year before heading to mainland China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Hundreds of fans thronged a luxury mall in Hong Kong on Monday for the grand opening of the CR7 LIFE Museum, the first exhibition outside Portugal dedicated to football legend Cristiano Ronaldo. The museum showcases Ronaldo\u2019s illustrious career with displays of his Golden Boot, signature jerseys, rare memorabilia, and life-sized statues, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-69861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69863,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69861\/revisions\/69863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}