{"id":567178,"date":"2021-06-17T16:07:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T20:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=567178"},"modified":"2021-06-17T16:07:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T20:07:42","slug":"coca-cola-lost-billions-after-being-snubbed-by-international-soccer-star-cristiano-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/coca-cola-lost-billions-after-being-snubbed-by-international-soccer-star-cristiano-ronaldo\/","title":{"rendered":"Coca-Cola Lost Billions After Being Snubbed By International Soccer Star Cristiano Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcoca-cola-lost-billions-after-being-snubbed-by-international-soccer-star-cristiano-ronaldo%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=567178&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-198.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>International soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo may have cost Coca-Cola billions in market value after snubbing its flagship soda at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo, captain of Portugal\u2019s national team, sat behind two bottles of Coca-Cola during a Monday press conference for the Euro 2020 tournament. Ronaldo was there to preview Portugal\u2019s upcoming Group F opener against Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>As the press conference was starting, \u201cRonaldo, an advocate of a healthy diet, moved the glass bottles out of the camera frame and instead held up a bottle of water and said in Portuguese: \u2018Water!\u2019\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/portugal-por\/story\/4410619\/cristiano-ronaldo-snub-sees-coca-cola-share-price-fall-by-$4bn\">ESPN<\/a> reported. \u201cCoca-Cola saw its share price drop by 1.6% to $55.22 soon after Ronaldo\u2019s actions. The market value went from $242bn to $238bn \u2013 a $4bn drop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coca-Cola is an official sponsor of the Euro 2020 and its drinks are offered to players free of charge at every press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlayers are offered water, alongside Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, on arrival at our press conferences,\u201d a Euro 2020 spokesperson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2021\/jun\/16\/cristiano-ronaldo-snubs-coca-cola-billions-wiped-off-drink-giants-market-value\">said<\/a> in a statement. Everyone \u201cis entitled to their drink preferences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo has long been critical of consuming sugary fountain drinks and sweets. He has said he tries to dissuade his children from drinking and eating them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m hard with him sometimes because he drinks Coca-Cola and Fanta sometimes and I\u2019m pissed with him,\u201d Ronald <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportbible.com\/football\/funny-ronaldo-says-he-gets-pssed-off-when-his-son-drinks-coca-cola-20201228\">said<\/a> in a December interview after winning \u201cPlayer of the Century\u201d at the Global Soccer Awards. \u201cI fight with him when he eats chips and fries and everything, he knows I don\u2019t like it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven my small kids, when they eat chocolate they always look to me and, you know, we have to be strong,\u201d Ronaldo said.<\/p>\n<p>Coca-Cola has recently been in the headlines in the United States, not because of the health of its products but because of the company\u2019s apparent politics. In June, a North Carolina county voted to ban Coca-Cola vending machines in county-owned buildings over the company\u2019s political agenda. As The Daily Wire reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"27.875968992248\">\n<p><em>A county in North Carolina is banning Coca-Cola machines in response to the company\u2019s left-wing political agenda, saying they are going to fight back in the culture war.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe left wing in America, they defund, they boycott, they cancel, they tear down statues \u2014 all sorts of egregious actions,\u201d Eddie Harris, Surry County county commissioner,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/02\/north-carolina-county-bans-coca-cola-machines-over-left-wing-politics\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cThe expectation from them is the opposing political side will cower in the corner and we\u2019re supposed to accept that and it\u2019s supposed to be OK. And it\u2019s not OK.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The county commissioners voted 3-2 in favor of banning Coca-Cola vending machines in county-owned buildings after the company criticized the state of Georgia for passing voter integrity laws aimed at securing elections.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Harris sent a letter on official county letterhead to James Quincey, CEO of Coca-Cola, saying that the company\u2019s position was \u201cwrong on many levels.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/georgia-gop-lawmakers-are-kicking-coca-cola-out-of-their-offices-for-trashing-election-reforms\">Georgia GOP Lawmakers Are Kicking Coca-Cola Out Of Their Offices For Trashing Election Reforms<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo may have cost Coca-Cola billions in market value after snubbing its flagship soda at a press conference.Ronaldo, captain of Portugal\u2019s national team, sat behind two &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280622,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-198.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Coca-Cola Lost Billions After Being Snubbed By International Soccer Star Cristiano Ronaldo","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-198.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Coca-Cola Lost Billions After Being Snubbed By International Soccer Star Cristiano Ronaldo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}