But artist Emanuel Santos’ artwork generated criticism all around as it laughingly resembles former Sunderland striker Niall Quinn and Art Attack character ‘The Head’.

Santos has said Ronaldo wants him to iron out his wrinkles to make him look younger.

The Sun quoted the artist as saying “Cristiano asked me to get rid of the wrinkles above his left eye, so he would look younger.”

Earlier Santos passed out the blame for the blundering statue onto the ‘specialist’ he left in charge of the bronzing.

Santos said: “The bronzing process failed. There was a mistake with the lines on the face.”

“I spent a fortnight molding the sculpture in clay. Then it went to plaster and then to get bronzed. A specialist did the bronzing, but it was not a good job” the sculptor said.

Santos later defended his handiwork claiming that you can’t please everyone.