Real Madrid conquered Atletico Madrid during Saturday’s derby match, and one key detail making the rounds involves a confrontation between Cristiano Ronaldo and his opponent Jorge Resurrección Merodio, also known as “Koke.”
Ronaldo and Koke received yellow cards after butting heads an hour into the game, and Spanish radio station Cope reports they overheard key details of the argument. Ronaldo allegedly came back with a decent rejoinder after a homophobic remark from Koke.
Koke calls Ronaldo a “faggot,” leading the 31-year-old star to reply, “Yes, a faggot. But a very rich one, shithead.”
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The incident is certainly not the first time Ronaldo – who recently showed us exactly what he gets up to in the locker room when he stripped off for the Portuguese national football team’s Mannequin Challenge – has been subject to homophobic abuse on the pitch.
Back in April, a Spanish LGBT rights group made a formal complaint to Spain’s State Commission against Violence in Sport after Ronaldo was subjected to repeated homophobic slurs from the crowd during a match.
Meanwhile, French sports presenter courted controversy last year after implying that Ronaldo’s relationship with boxer Badr Hari was more than just friendship, while a German newspaper was criticised earlier this summer for appearing to question the footballing hero’s sexuality after he shared photos of men relaxing aboard his luxury yacht.
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