During a press conference, world-renowned Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo called for drinking water instead of carbonated soft drink Coca-Cola as he removed its two bottles, causing a loss of $4 billion in the share price.
With innumerable football fans from across the globe, Ronaldo has a powerful personality that has a huge impact on everything even if it is a giant drink brand.
And being the fittest athlete of all time, Ronaldo proved that he is more inclined towards water rather than carbonated drinks like Coca-Cola.
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Soon after Ronaldo moved the Coca-Cola bottles away, the video of the incident made headlines and the share price dropped from $56.10 to $55.22 immediately.
Do NOT put Coca Cola in front of Cristiano Ronaldo 😠
This is absolutely brilliant 🤣 pic.twitter.com/bw9FYlTOI4
— Goal (@goal) June 15, 2021
Later, Coca-Cola, which is also one of the official sponsors of Euro 2020 replied, “everyone is entitled to their drink preferences with different tastes and needs”.
Further, a spokesperson added, “Players are offered water, alongside Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, on arrival at our press conferences”.
Recently, the Portuguese legend broke a new record by scoring a record-breaking 10th goal in European Championship.
This time, Ronaldo overhauled Michel Platini’s record of nine goals.