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Cristiano Ronaldo removed two Coca-Cola bottles from being in view during a press conference and then reached for a water bottle, holding it up for everyone to see, according to The Daily Wire.
“Ronaldo, an advocate of a healthy diet, moved the glass bottles out of the camera frame and instead held up a bottle of water and said in Portuguese: ‘Water!’”
“Coca-Cola saw its share price drop by 1.6% to $55.22 soon after Ronaldo’s actions. The market value went from $242bn to $238bn – a $4bn drop.”
“Players are offered water, alongside Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, on arrival at our press conferences.”
Everyone “is entitled to their drink preferences.”
“I’m hard with him sometimes because he drinks Coca-Cola and Fanta sometimes and I’m pissed with him,” Ronaldo stated.
“I fight with him when he eats chips and fries and everything, he knows I don’t like it.”
“Even my small kids, when they eat chocolate they always look to me and, you know, we have to be strong,” Ronaldo said.
From The Daily Wire:
Coca-Cola has recently been in the headlines in the United States, not because of the health of its products but because of the company’s apparent politics. In June, a North Carolina county voted to ban Coca-Cola vending machines in county-owned buildings over the company’s political agenda. As The Daily Wire reported:
A county in North Carolina is banning Coca-Cola machines in response to the company’s left-wing political agenda, saying they are going to fight back in the culture war.
“The left wing in America, they defund, they boycott, they cancel, they tear down statues — all sorts of egregious actions,” Eddie Harris, Surry County county commissioner, said. “The expectation from them is the opposing political side will cower in the corner and we’re supposed to accept that and it’s supposed to be OK. And it’s not OK.”
