Hi, I recently saw a post on this forum from a user called 'Sandor Beres' asking for advice on if they should purchase a signed CR7 football from his museum, which is located in Funchal, Madeira. Unfortunately you can no longer reply to the thread due to it being closed... but I just wanted to put out a warning to anyone else thinking about getting one of these pieces of memorabilia.

I have personally visited the CR7 Museum, its his official museum that he uses to store all of his personal awards, along with replicas of team trophies, it is located on the Island of Madeira, where he was born, in the city of Funchal, his hotel is attached to the museum and there is a Gift Store also in the building, the gift store sells items that have been 'signed' by Cristiano Ronaldo himself...

As I've said I visited the museum in 2019 and went to the gift store, I was surprised to see them offering the 'Signed' items for such a low price, signed shirts for 150 euros, signed balls for 50 euros, and signed prints for only 10 euros, I didn't have too much experience with autographs back then, but the price threw up huge red flags for me, getting something ACTUALLY signed by Ronaldo costs minimum £400-£500, my dad also told me not to buy anything because the staff of the museum REFUSED to offer a COA with the item, stating that it was definitely signed by Ronaldo, these is an example of one of these items listed on eBay at the minute, I'll leave a photograph of the item below:

When I returned back to the hotel I decided to check TripAdvisor to see if anyone had said anything about this, and surprisingly there are many 1 star reviews from angry people that have bought from the CR7 store, gone back to the UK or the US and tried to get their product authenticated by JSA, Beckett or AFTAL, all of which were declined, with the authenticators saying that the signatures were fakes...

Personally I find it unbelievable that Cristiano Ronaldo's own museum, in the city where he was born and personally endorsed by him sells fake autographs. I'm not sure how they do the autographs but I'd assume that someone is employed by the museum to copy Ronaldo's signature, or in terms of the prints they might be using a mechanical arm to sign them I'm guessing. It just goes to show that if its too good to be true then it probably is, even when it looks 100% real...

This goes out as a warning to the guy that posted about buying the ball on here the other week, I really hope that you didn't purchase it, and I would advise against buying memorabilia from the Cristiano Ronaldo Museum

Thanks, - Jacob