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Cristiano Ronaldo Dresses Up as a Homeless Man and Tricks the Good People of Madrid

Cristiano Ronaldo has indulged in a spot of performance art/social commentary by dressing up as a homeless guy and playing football in Madrid.

It's been a busy few days for Cristiano Ronaldo. The Real Madrid star has voiced his opinion on both FIFA and Qatar (he doesn't give a fuck, okay), got his WhatsApp on with an Australian model, and also helped out the Greek economy by buying one of the country's islands as a wedding gift to his agent.

Now he's indulged in some performance art/social commentary by dressing up as a homeless guy and playing football in Madrid.

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Complete with beard (because homeless people have beards, don't they) and fat suit (not sure about this one) CR7 performed some tricks in the Madrid streets. (Inexplicably, he also had a Highland Terrier tied to a chair; have you ever seen a homeless guy with a Highland Terrier? No, that's Tin Tin; they're not even close).

It's standard "famous guy pretending to be homeless" stuff: a woman refuses to give him her phone number, he gets very little eye contact, and the current Ballon d'Or holder is almost completely ignored in his club's home city.

Then a kid has a little kick about with him, because kids are good like that — they don't judge as much, do they? And in a grand finale, Ronaldo pulls off his beard and hair to reveal he is in fact a super-wealthy football legend. Suddenly people flock around him, camerphones are called into action, and the crowd generally go batshit that a superstar is on the scene. The kid just sort of smiles and says "hola", which is nice.

But it would improve the video no end if the kid pulled off his mask to reveal he was actually Lionel Messi playing a similar prank and that, just as they are drawn together in a never-ending battle at the top-level of world football, so too they are magnetically attracted in lame videos.

But alas, it's just a kid. Probably an Atlético fan, too