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Your support makes all the difference.In recent months, pitch invaders have become more and more brazen.
Stopping for ‘selfies’ with players, being carried off the pitch in tears and even having their shirt signed during a match.
But when Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid travelled to Granada this weekend, the Portuguese superstar found one pitch invader who just wouldn’t let go.
At the end of Los Blancos’ 4-0 win, one youngster came onto the Estadio Nuevo Los Carmenes and found the Madrid man, who scored in his 12 th consecutive game, giving Ronaldo a big cuddle.
But the kid wouldn’t let the forward loose, even when multiple stewards attempted to unhand him.
Ronaldo initially cuddled him back before a look of awkwardness became more and more apparent; Sergio Ramos got the same treatment with another youngster.
Eventually the stewards were able to get the kid to let go.
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