5 unknown things about Cristiano Ronaldo

#3 The Cristiano Ronaldo course

There's a course dedicated to Cristiano Ronaldo in Canada!

Everybody is well aware of the astronomical fan following that Ronaldo boasts; he is the most followed football star on the planet. As an aftermath, it isn't very surprising to see people pay tribute to him in different manners.

They will usually name something after him, but a certain Canadian University has paid a strange sort of homage to the superstar by drafting a course on him.

In 2015, Cristiano Ronaldo became the subject of a semester-long course at the University of British Columbia in Okanagan. As a part of the fourth-year Sociology module, it is taught by Professor Luis LM Aguiar, whose greatest passions are sociology and football.

When asked about the course, he stated,

“I’m interested in how Ronaldo has been used to construct several discourses about who he is, what makes him distinct as a footballer, what is his relationship to Portugal, Madeira (his hometown) and his Portuguese identity,”

Apparently, the course aims at studying the way in which the personality of a global superstar can be used to construct identity and nationality; it does not focus on the celebrity lifestyle of the player.