Odd-looking Cristiano Ronaldo statue: Is it the new Scary Lucy?

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A boy takes a selfie next to the bust of Cristiano Ronaldo at the Madeira international airport outside Funchal, the capital of Madeira island, Portugal, Wednesday March 29, 2017.(AP Photo/Armando Franca)

FUNCHAL, Portugal (AP) — Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo was upstaged Wednesday by his own, odd-looking statue.

The bust, and the real Ronaldo. (AFP Getty) 

The player’s bronze bust, which was unveiled to much fanfare by Portugal’s president and prime minister on the island of Madeira, hardly does the handsome footballer justice.

It squashes his eyes close together, and the cheeky raised-eyebrow smile more resembles a leer. The face is also unusually chubby, in contrast to Ronaldo’s chiseled looks.

Dozens of guests and hundreds of fans were at the unveiling of the bust in Ronaldo’s native Madeira Islands. It was part of an official ceremony to rename the local airport as Aeroporto Cristiano Ronaldo.

Ronaldo, who attended the ceremony, did not show any signs of being bothered by the odd look of his newly unveiled bust.

Ronaldo’s full-body statue outside his museum in Funchal also does not do a very good depiction of the Real Madrid star, although it better resembles the player.

A creepy depiction of actress Lucille Ball in her hometown of Celeron, N.Y., drew so much ridicule as “Scary Lucy”  that a replacement was commissioned at a cost of $250,000.

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