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Cristiano Ronaldo Cries While Yamal and Messi Sleep With World Cup

This is a 3-panel collage meme. The left panel shows footballer Cristiano Ronaldo lying in bed, visibly crying with tears on his face, wearing a Real Madrid branded shirt. The middle panel features 17-year-old Spanish footballer Lamine Yamal asleep in bed, tightly hugging the golden FIFA World Cup trophy while wearing his Spain national team jersey. The right panel shows Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi asleep in bed, resting next to the FIFA World Cup trophy. The meme is paired with a sarcastic caption stating that winning a World Cup is not a dream Ronaldo wants, mocking the fact that Ronaldo has never won a World Cup, while both Yamal and Messi are World Cup champions.
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Fortunately for him winning a world cup is not a dream he wants

Overview

This is a 3-panel collage meme. The left panel shows footballer Cristiano Ronaldo lying in bed, visibly crying with tears on his face, wearing a Real Madrid branded shirt. The middle panel features 17-year-old Spanish footballer Lamine Yamal asleep in bed, tightly hugging the golden FIFA World Cup trophy while wearing his Spain national team jersey. The right panel shows Argentinian footballer Lionel Messi asleep in bed, resting next to the FIFA World Cup trophy. The meme is paired with a sarcastic caption stating that winning a World Cup is not a dream Ronaldo wants, mocking the fact that Ronaldo has never won a World Cup, while both Yamal and Messi are World Cup champions.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit r/Meme subreddit. It is a collage remix of three pre-existing viral photos: the left image is a widely shared photo of Ronaldo crying following a match loss, the middle image is a photo taken after Spain won the 2024 FIFA World Cup showing Yamal sleeping with the trophy, and the right image is the famous viral photo of Messi sleeping with the World Cup trophy after Argentina won the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The juxtaposition of the three images is created to make a sarcastic joke about Ronaldo's lack of a World Cup win.

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