On the eve of becoming the highest goalscorer in
European Championship history — 11 and counting
thanks to a brace against Hungary on Tuesday — Cristiano Ronaldo was giving a reminder of his enduring influence as the continent’s most famous footballer.
One word — “agua”, the Portuguese for water — was all it took for headlines to be made before his team’s press conference had even begun in Budapest on Monday. Ronaldo had purposely placed two glass bottles of Coca-Cola out of view after taking a seat at the top table, instead stating his preference for the clear stuff.
That the water he raised was another product from the Coca-Cola stable mattered little.
