‘My legacy’: Cristiano Ronaldo ‘proud’ of new CR7 Museum in Hong Kong… as Man United shirt features first in Instagram clip

Manchester United are the first club to feature in a clip shared by Cristiano Ronaldo inviting fans to his new museum in a shopping centre in Hong Kong.

An opening annual audience of more than two million people are expected to visit the 12,000 square foot museum dedicated to the Portugal captain, which opened earlier this month at the K11 Musea mall in Tsim Sha Tsui and has been described by one of Ronaldo’s representatives as “the door to Asia”.

“My journey,” Ronaldo said alongside the video, writing on his Instagram page, which is the most followed account on the platform. “My legacy. Proud to share a part of my life with you.”

Cristiano Ronaldo CR7 Life Museum

United kits from Ronaldo’s first spell at the club, between 2003 and 2009, are the first to be seen alongside the Champions League trophy in the video inside the museum.

The 20-time English champions took three of those titles with Ronaldo in attack, as well as becoming European champions in 2007/08 and winning the FA Cup once and the EFL Cup twice.

“We have a huge fan base here,” said a member of Ronaldo’s team, Luis Parafita, speaking to the South China Morning Post in June.

“The connection that Cristiano already has with China and Asia is huge. Every year, he comes to this region of the world, so this was a natural selection. This was very natural for us to choose.

“It’s conservative, but we have a limit of 500 capacity inside the museum per hour. It’s not a very small museum; you can’t rush people.”

A standard ticket costs around £18 or £32 for an adult and child. VIP tickets were available for up to £238.

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Cristiano Ronaldo museum Portugal

There is already a Ronaldo museum in the 40-year-old’s home city of Funchal, but this is the first travelling version to have been created following a three-month test two years ago in Riyadh, where Ronaldo plays for Saudi Pro League club Al-Nassr.

Parafita said there were requests for hosting duties “from all over the world”. “We understood that the fans expected much more, and now we have created here the first one that will travel to other places,” he added.

“It won’t stop here. It will be here for one year to showcase his life. We will travel to mainland China afterwards, in multiple cities.”

Another representative, Tomas Froes, called the collection “amazing”. “In my generation, the superheroes were Superman, Spider-Man and Hulk,” suggested Froes.

“This new generation, the superheroes are real people – Cristiano is a real superhero with the values that inspire the generation.”

Cristiano Ronaldo stats: Man United

Legendary United manager Sir Alex Ferguson signed Ronaldo for £12m as an 18-year-old from Portuguese club Sporting in 2003.

Initially a winger, Ronaldo established himself as one of the best strikers in the world, winning the Premier League Player of the Season award twice and the Golden Boot in the division in 2007/08.

After more spectacular success between 2009 and 2018 with Real Madrid, for whom he is the all-time top scorer, Ronaldo played for Juventus between 2018 and 2021 before making a surprise return to Old Trafford in 2021, top-scoring in 2021/22 but leaving in November 2022 after falling out with new manager Erik ten Hag.

Ronaldo finished on 145 goals in 346 United appearances and proceeded to seal the most lucrative contract ever signed by a footballer when he agreed to join Al-Nassr the following month.

Cristiano Ronaldo contract

Despite top-scoring in the top flight in each of his two seasons with Al-Nassr, who have colosssal financial might through the country’s Public Investment Fund, Ronaldo is yet to win the Saudi title.

Shortly after Al-Nassr finished third last season – 13 points behind champions Al-Ittihad – Ronaldo appeared to strongly hint on social media that he had played his final game for the club.

He agreed a new contract exactly a month later, having scored in Portugal’s triumphant Nations League semi-final against Germany and final against Spain.

The five-time Champions League winner scored 35 goals in 41 matches across all competitions for Al-Nassr in 2024/25.

Ronaldo weekly salary

On financial website Forbes’ all-time list of the highest earning athletes in a year, only boxer Floyd Mayweather eclipses Ronaldo, having pocketed an estimated $300m (£226m) in 2015 and $285m (£214.5m) in 2018.

Ronaldo was said to have surpassed $1 billion (£771m) in career earnings two years before becoming the most high-profile footballer to move to Saudi Arabia.

Ronaldo’s first Al-Nassr deal was widely reported to be worth £14.75m a month or £3.4m per week. His annual salary was said to be £177m per year, made up of £62m for his football salary, supplemented by commercial bonuses.

The five-time Ballon d’Or winner has a variety of lucrative sponsorship deals, with his recent endorsements including Whoop, video game UFL and cryptocurrency exchange Binance.

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