PHOTO: Here is Ronaldo posing with a fancy watermelon, so you know he must be healed
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Listen, you don't hang around with watermelons sculpted in your likeness, post a photo on Facebook, and then not play in a critical match vs. the United States the next day. It is simply not done.
Portugal and Cristiano Ronaldo are sending you a message, America.

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