Did Christiano Ronaldo sell his Golden Boots to donate funds to kids in Palestine?

Hyderabad: An Instagram post claiming that footballer Christiano Ronaldo is selling his "Golden Boot Award" to donate money to Palestinian kids is doing the rounds on social media.

According to the viral post, the Portuguese soccer legend sold his four Golden Boot awards for Rs. 12 crores. All this money will go to help poor children in Palestine, it adds

Is it true? Let's fact check

Fact Check

NewsMeter ran a reverse image search of the viral image which led us to Sportskeeda's article from 2012 titled "Ronaldo's Golden Boot donation to Palestine a false alarm." As the title indicates, the claim that Ronaldo is selling his Golden Boot is a hoax. "The story reeks of a hoax, with neither Real Madrid's official site validating the news, nor any major Spanish daily covering it, as reported in many of the articles reporting the story," the article read.

It added, "No confirmation has come from Ronaldo's official Twitter handle either."

We also found a recent updated report titled "4 Ronaldo donation reports that turned out to be false" on Daily Times from 19 December 2022. It said the viral claim was one of the four false donation reports by Ronaldo.

Regarding the claim about Ronaldo donating Golden Boot to Palestine, it said, "Back in the day when Cristiano won the Golden shoe – award for the season's top scorer, people started to stir rumours that Cristiano has donated his prize to the people of Palestine, who were, at that time, being persecuted by the Israeli regime."

It clarified, "The shoe, however, still lies nice and shiny in Ronaldo's trophy cabinet, and was only circulated by a click-bait website, and was spread like fire."

Hence, the claim that Ronaldo has sold his Golden Boots to donate money to kids in Palestine is false.