Cristiano Ronaldo chose Hong Kong for museum as ‘door to Asia' – and plans to visit
Cristiano Ronaldo chose Hong Kong as the location for his latest CR7 Life Museum because of his huge fan base in China, his representatives said on Thursday.
The Portuguese football star will also visit the city at some point when his museum is up and running in the K11 Musea shopping centre in Tsim Sha Tsui, they said. It is scheduled to open on July 7.
According to Luis Parafita, one of the 40-year-old's representatives, Hong Kong was a 'natural' choice.
'This is the door to Asia. We have a huge fan base here,' he said. '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 [place] was very natural for us to choose.'
Parafita said there were requests 'from all over the world' to host the museum, after the three-month test two years ago of a small museum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where Ronaldo plays for Al-Nassr.
'We understood that the fans expected much more, and now we have created here the first one that will travel to other places,' he said.
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