Poor Ronaldo Girl

About

Poor Ronaldo Girl, also known as Morrocan Ronaldo Girl or Ronaldo Morocco Girl, is a viral video on TikTok of a young Moroccan fan being interviewed at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar in which the girl says, "Poor Ronaldo," making fun of Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and his early exit from the tournament following Portugal's defeat to Morocco. In the clip, she makes fun of Ronaldo crying and tells him "Portugal airport is that way." Many pro-Ronaldo fan edits emerged that humorously portrayed his revenge, oftentimes at the hand of French players like Kylian Mbappé.

Origin

On December 11th, 2022, the TikTok^[1] account of goalglobal posted a video in which they interviewed multiple Moroccan fans at the FIFA World Cup following team Morocco upsetting Portugal in the tournament's quarterfinals. In the video, a little girl wearing a red jersey is interviewed by the camera crew who proceeds to make fun of Ronaldo for crying, telling him to go to the airport. Over the course of two days, the video received roughly 4.5 million plays and 300,500 likes, however, the sound was later removed from the platform. The page also posted the video to its Instagram ^[2] account on December 11th, where it earned roughly 172,500 likes in two days (shown below).

Portugal airport is that way. And where's Ronaldo? He's crying in his car. Poor Ronaldo.

Spread

On December 11th, 2022, multiple TikTok accounts made sigma male edits that largely showed Ronaldo getting revenge on the girl. For instance, on December 11th, TikToker^[3] true.zelyy posted an edit that showed Ronaldo kicking the girl's head like a soccer ball, gaining roughly 14.4 million plays and 1.7 million likes in two days (shown below, left). Also on December 11th, TikToker^[4] fut_ronny0 posted an edit that referenced the Women ☕ video and French players getting their revenge on the Poor Ronaldo Girl, earning roughly 4.6 million plays and 431,400 likes in two days (shown below, right).

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