Cristiano Ronaldo may not be hitting his dizzying heights on the field this season but the Real Madrid star continues to be honoured off it. A new bust of the Portuguese talisman has been unveiled at the Real Madrid museum in tribute to his record-breaking career. Only this time, it actually resembles the 32-year-old.
A previous attempt was widely mocked after it was displayed at the Madeira airport.
The previous bronze bust, made by Emanuel Santos, left a lot to the imagination with many suggesting it looked more like former Sunderland man Niall Quinn.
But Spanish sculptor Jose Antonio Navarro Arteaga has received nothing but praise for his look-a-like statue which was designed to depict the star's interior strength.
Speaking to El Mundo, he said: 'I used several photos of Cristiano to work from.
'What I wanted to reflect was his interior strength, when he was preparing to take a free kick or a corner.'
The artist was inspired to produce a bust of the star after his Madrid loving son begged him to make a new one, after seeing the previous attempt in Madeira.
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