Where To See Favourite Football Statues of the World Cup, Moore, Renaldo, & other Sports and Literary Heroes For Holiday, Honeymoon & Wedding Photos

 

World Cup statue. London. England.

The World Cup Sculpture, or simply The Champions, is a bronze statue of the 1966 World Cup Final located near the site of West Ham United Football Club's former Boleyn Ground (Upton Park) stadium in the London Borough of Newham, England. It depicts a famous victory scene photographed after the final, held at the old Wembley Stadium in London, featuring Bobby Moore, Geoff Hurst, Martin Peters and Ray Wilson. It remains the only time the England national football team have won the World Cup, and England captain Moore is pictured held shoulder high by his colleagues, holding the Jules Rimet Trophy aloft.

Jointly commissioned by Newham Council and West Ham United, the statue stands at the junction of Barking Road and Green Street, near the former location of the Boleyn Ground. It commemorates West Ham's contribution to the victory, with Moore, Hurst and Peters having all been West Ham players at the time of the 1966 World Cup. Sculpted by the Royal Sculptor Philip Jackson, it was unveiled in 2003 by Prince Andrew, president of the Football Association. Jackson went on to also sculpt the statue of Bobby Moore unveiled at the new Wembley when it opened in 2007.

The statue is a good place for selfies, holiday snaps, wedding photos.

Wembley Stadium, London. Statue of Bobby Moore with foot on football. 

Statue of Bobby Moore showing plinth.

Statue of Cristiano Ronaldo in Madeira.

In case you want photos of a wedding or holiday to interest those of the family not interested in sports, you can find many statues of famous writers.

 

Useful Websites

The Story of the Statue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Cup_Sculpture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Statues_of_writers

New Zealand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Local_Heroes

Madeira

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristiano_Ronaldo

More Photos

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Champions_statue,_Upton_Park

About the Author Angela Lansbury

BIOGRAPHY

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Cristiano Ronaldo Footballer's Statue and My Favourite Sites in Portugal, Madeira and Portuguese Speaking Brazil

Portugal
First stop
is Lisbon.


Lisbon's Belem tower, a symbol of the city.

Monument to Henry the Navigator
At a distance the figures are very small. You need a zoom lens. You may prefer to read up about the statue people shown in advance of your visit, using Wikipedia or a guidebook.

The Algarve sandy beaches and rock formations.
See the Punta da Piedade (Point of mercy).

On one occasion we flew direct to Faro airport and did fly-drive, picking up a hire car.
On another holiday we enjoyed the drive south through cork trees down the west coast of Portugal.

Portugal Travel Highlights -
Lisbon, the capital city

Port and Douro Wine Route, Portugal
Algarve beaches via Faro airport

Madeira
In the capital Funchal you will find two or more Madeira wine locations. We booked from home in advance for all of our hiking group. A centrally located shop where you can book a Madeira tasting and talk for a group is Pereiro D'Oliveriras. We had previously met their rep when they were giving a tasting of Madeira wines in a wine shop in Eton in the UK.

Company Pereira D`Oliveiras, Funchal

Karelj - Own work. Wikipedia.

MADEIRA
Known for Madeira wine, switchback road, walks along the levadas, and the visual appeal of the little triangular houses, one of which we saw was a flower shop where I bought fruit seeds.

Cristiano Ronaldo, football player, statue by Madeiran sculptor Ricardo Velosa in Funchal, Madeira. Photo by TeWeBs in Wikipedia.
The airport was renamed Cristiano Ronaldo. A bust of the player was controversial as some people did not think it was a likeness or that it was not flattering. So the full size sculpture was commissioned.

You can also visit a museum all about the football player and an adjacent hotel.

Vineyard growing among other cultures in the tropical influenced climate near Santana, Madeira.

Karel Vízner, GEUM - Self-photographed

wine fields near town Santana, Madeira.

BRAZIL
Brazilian Tourist Board
https://www.visitbrasil.com/
See Rio, the beach, and the modern city of Brasilia.




Useful Websites

Travel

Portuguese Tourist Board

https://www.visitportugal.com/en

Pousadas

https://www.pousadasportugal.com/

Language

http://duolingo.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language
https://translate.google.com/

earwormslearning.com

Madeira
https://www.visitportugal.com/en/destinos/madeira
Story of vintage Madeira wind discovered in the USA
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/madeira-wine-two-hundred-year-old-found-fortified-cellar-new-jersey-liberty-hall-union-a7835881.html
http://www.kean.edu/libertyhall/about/history
Football Museum
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museu_CR7
duolingo.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira

TOURIST BOARDS GROUPED TOGETHER

visitportugal.com

visitbrasil.com

http://www.visitmadeira.pt/en-gb/homepage

ANGELA LANSBURY BLOG POSTS

http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/port-and-portuguese-wine-labels-and.
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/how-to-ask-for-food-and-drink-in.
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/learn-your-first-ten-words-in.
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/how-do-you-say-please-in-portuguese-is.

http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com/2017/03/madeira-madeira-wine-portugal-and.html

About The Author
Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer, blogger, author of 20 books including an ebook on Improve Your English, from Amazon, and teacher of English and Business English and other languages to individuals, colleges and companies. For more information on learning languages see the previous posts. For information on sites to see in Spain and Portugal see the next post. Please bookmark your favourite posts and share the links with your family, friends and colleagues.

Top Ten Things I Love About London - contrasted with Madeira

Madeira. Thatched house in traingualr design - nothing like England's thatch. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright

Problem
When you live in a city you stop appreciating it. Go away for two months, two years, even a week, and when you come back you see the differences.

Madeira
I spend a week in Madeira where the steep hills are dotted with many houses which had orange tiled roofs. Walls were white or cream, a few yellow, orange, pink or blue.

Lots of palm trees shaking in the breeze. Green gorse bushes contrast with yellow flowers. Magenta flower trees. Tangles of banana plants and sugar cane. In the north, hanging vines on pergolas.

Huge flyovers lead to and from the Cristiano Ronaldo airport. Tunnels weave in and out of the hillsides and cliffs around the capital, Funchal.

Cars park diagonally, noses in the air, or noses down like dogs pulling ahead on leads, on steep roads at diagonal angles. Unnerving. You watch the static cars, worried, wondering when one of them will start rolling backwards, or forwards, starting one of those falling domino chains.

Welcome To London
Driving from Heathrow airport towards outer London, what a contrast. At first driving from Heathrow through Hayes was a disappointment, dilapidated one storey shops had peeling paint.

But soon, reaching the suburbs of Ickenham, with its pub, then historic Harrow, then pretty Pinner, the buildings and greenery started perking up. Neat hedges surround freshly painted semi-detached houses in neighbourly pairs.

Triangular roofs are over the bay windows. The contrasting black or brown imitation Tudor wooden beams or imitating Victorian imitation Tudor, against white walls.

London's red brick from the red clay appears in walls along gardens. More red brick is in the walls of houses.

The semis give way to grander detached houses. Palladian columns. Large drives with two cars. Huge  oak trees, which once built the ships of the fleets for Elizabeth I. Magestic chestnut trees.

Green lawns of fine-leaved grass with picture frame borders of pink roses. Fences and gates - which you don't get in many cities of the USA where fences are banned and houses are exposed. No wonder they all have guns for protection when anybody can march up to the front or back door. To the British eye, every estate of houses set in unfenced lawns in some USA cities looks unfinished, like a show house which nobody has yet moved into.

CENTRAL LONDON
Central London has Victorian buildings and pageantry. The plane trees are big trees which don't mind pollution.

London, plane trees and pageantry.

SINGAPORE
In Singapore where we rent our flat, overlooking a swimming pool, the block is under threat of being pulled down.

 If that happens, it will be replaced with something more compact, crammed, smaller rooms, less space between the tower blocks, news. A neighbour says, "This is an old block. It's thirty years old!"

Singapore, palm trees and Chinese writing.

I am stunned into silence. When I fill out an insurance form asking the age of a building in London, I can't remember the age. I have to consult documents. Many of London's suburban houses were built in the nineteen thirties, when the railways expanded. Others have the dates of the 19.. or even 18.. on the facade.

USA
Even in the 'recent no history' USA, terraced houses which were homes of famous people, such as Edgar Allen Poe in Philadelphia, date back a century or more.

London's red brick walls are neat and have patterns from Victorian times. (The Nineteen Fifties introduced the blight of cigarette-box shape blocks of greying flats. The fact that low building standards mean they are short-lived and crumbling - or burning down like tragic Grenfell - is a blessing in disguise.)

London List
1 SEMIS.
Semi-detached houses in suburbs. Mock Tudor. London red brick.
2 BUNGALOWS.
Bungalows (one storey houses) with fenced front lawns and gates.
3 MANSIONS.
Majestic mansions, churches and town halls with steps up to Palladian columns (like the USA).
4 ART DECO.
Art deco railway stations and white houses with green tiled rooftops.
5 RED BUSES.
Red buses. Old style and new style. Jolly red.
6 RED POST BOXES.
Red pillar boxes. The pillar shape freestanding ones. We also have a few inset in walls. Jolly red.
7 BRUNEL STATIONS.
Brunel's railway stations - notably Paddington where you see his statue.
8 PUBS.
British Pubs. Old Victorian pubs with Toby jugs and horse brasses. Historic pubs. Many turned into gastropubs with green gardens. (Budget eating and drinking at Wetherspoons which make a point of preserving photos of local history.)
9 SHOPS & SHOPPING CENTRES.
London as a shopping base, with old arcades such as: Burlington Arcade; Selfridges; the original Harrods (not just the branches you get worldwide). Intu in Watford has a kiddie train (for a fee) and Xmas decorations at Xmas. Out of the city, take a drive to the vast new shopping centres, such as waterside Bluewater in Kent, or Lakeside.
10 HISTORIC STATUES.
Statues where you can take selfies with world-famous figures, such as writers Shakespeare, bust outside Guildhall, and Oscar Wilde reclining near Trafalgar Square, and dandy, beautifully dressed Beau Brummel standing near department store Liberty near Oxford Circus.

See my other posts for text and photos on: art deco, statues, Intu at Xmas.

Author
Angela Lansbury

A few fun football places for travellers

Cristiano Ronaldo Airport, Madeira. Photo from Wikipedia.

Problem
Where are the football places which will interest my friends and family and colleagues - and start conversations with taxi drivers worldwide! Visit England, Wales or Northern Ireland, or Madeira, to see busts and statues and museums of any family's favourite football players and teams.

Answers

1 Cristiano Ronaldo - bust outside airport

2 Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport, near Funchal, capital of Madeira, Portuguese speaking island in the Atlantic. (Stopover in Oporto or Lisbon Portugal.)

3 CV7 (football) Museum in Funchal, birthplace of Cristiano Ronaldo.

Cristiana Ronaldo's CR7 Museum, Madeira. Photo from Wikipedia.

4 Belfast, Northern Ireland - George Best airport.
Best place for football fans to visit?

5 Bust of football player for Spain and Wales in Cardiff.
Bales in Wales. Outside Cardiff Stadium. Lots of trains into Wales give you the options of routes, for example, change trains at Cardiff or other places. If there's a wait between trains, all the better. Make sure you have lightweight pullalong luggage with sturdy wheels, or light enough to carry on your back. Get off the train at Cardiff and have a look.

6 Football Museum. Statue of the falling footballer?

See a previous post.

Plenty more football and rugby museums to see worldwide, including on any trip to Australia and New Zealand. See my other posts. Please save and bookmark and share links to your favourite posts with your family and friends and football fans.

Useful or entertaining websites:
visitbritain.com
visitbritainshop.com

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. If you know of any others, either as a visitor or museum/city/country PR, please let me know. You can contact me here or through Facebook.

Madeira, For Cristiano Ronalda Airport, Madeira Wine and More

Problem
Where is it? When to go? Where to say? What to do?

Answers
Madeira is an island in the Atlantic. You will probably fly into the airport Cristiano Ronaldo, named after the world-famous footballer who plays for Madrid. He was born in Madeira. You can see and photograph his bust in the airport.

The inhabitants, about 250,000 of them, speak Portuguese. Brush up on your Portuguese with the help of Duolingo if you want to order food and drink in Portuguese. The best-known drink is Madeira. The best-known food is Madeira cake.

The National Day is July 1st. You might want to extend your holiday to include this date. Or you might look for the cheaper and less busy times.

Everyday Words to Learn in Portuguese

1-10 words
exit
entrance
drink
food
hotel
.....
restaurant
toilet
ladies
gentlemen
yes
..........
11-20 words
please
no
thank you
hello
goodbye
.
where?
how much?
good
big
small
...
21-23 words
breakfast
lunch
dinner
***
Portuguese
Saída
Entrada
beber
Comida
hotel
.....
restaurante
banheiro
senhoras
cavalheiros
sim
..........
por favor
não
obrigado
Olá
Tchau
.....
Onde?
quantos?
Boa
grande
pequeno
...
café da manhã
almoço
jantar

Remembering those words

1 Hotel is the same in Portuguese and English.
2 Restaurant is restaurante.
3 Entrada is entrance.
4 Grande is big, not grand but big.

Useful websites
duolingo.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeira

http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/port-and-portuguese-wine-labels-and.
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/how-to-ask-for-food-and-drink-in.
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/learn-your-first-ten-words-in.
http://travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/how-do-you-say-please-in-portuguese-is.

visitportugal.com

visitbrasil.com

http://www.visitmadeira.pt/en-gb/homepage

earwormslearning.com

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. I have several more posts on Madeira.

Madeira, the island, wines, restaurants, hotels and selfies with the bust of Cristiano Ronaldo

Problems
Past
I have a photo of myself with family descending the Madeira hillside on a kind of local seated sledge. Like a horse-drawn cart but with no wheels and no horse! No wonder we are all grinning. Where were we? What have I done with this historic photo? I need a catalogue of photos!

Present
Where to go and what to do? Before planning a trip, I collect information days, weeks, months, years in advance. I started with a trip to taste Madeira wine in the UK (see my previous posts). The rep for Madeira wines, Geoff, kindly sent me information.

Future
Here are some notes I have made on Madeira, based on editing what Geoff said:

Hotels - biggest and best?
Reid's hilltop hotel where Winston Churchill stayed.
Savoy by the sea.

"1.A city hotel which we use for group visits in the centre of Funchal. 

Hotel Orquidea.     

www.hotelorquidea.com   

 info@hotelorquidea.com

2. Romantic hotel. Our favourite is Porto Mare hotel.

 www.portobay.com    

book@portobay.pt

3. Restaurants, all are good. A small intimate on is 

L'Osteria Restaurant 

4.  PVP has probably the best wine selection, informal and good food.

5. All the restaurants serve the locally made table wine. It is OK, but not very exciting and rather expensive. I would say that their table wine is at a level where English wine was 20 years ago.

6. All the producers have visitor facilities, booking is required for groups. All have websites. 

7. Cocktails. A document was published by IVBAM

 If you contact IVBAM I am sure that they would be pleased to send you a copy.  ivbam.sra@gov-madeira.pt

All restaurants and bars serve freshly pressed fruit drinks."

Sites - See and Do
Madeira movie experience.
Madeira history museum.
Botanical Gardens.
Lava tunnels and waterside walks.
The artificial beach where black sand has been replaced by pale sand.

Drink
Madeira wine, rum, passionfruit cocktail.

Zarco statue in Funchal, capital of Madeira. Photo in Wikipedia by Hedwig Storch.

A famous historical figure known locally is Zarco, whose statue is on one of the main streets, Avenida Arriarcho. Zarco was an explorer and, like Christopher Columbus, some suspect Zarco was descended from a Jewish family which converted to Christanity.

Most famous living man from Madeira, Cristiano Ronaldo, footballer who has played for real Madrid and previously Manchester United. You might fly into Aeroporto Cristiano Ronaldo, named after him in 2017. Notice the bust of him in the airport. You might want to photograph it and have a selfie with it.

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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Football museums in Maderia, Manchester and worldwide

Problems
Where to take your sporty kids and husband on holiday? How to make conversation with a taxi driver whose first question is which football team do you support?

Answers
Football museums are great outings and good topics of conversation. You can plan a visit, dream of a visit, talk about the venue.

1 Cristiano Ronaldo Museum, Funchal, Madeira (Portuguese island)
2 Football Museum, Manchester, England

Story
When I was teaching English to an English-speaking pupil in England who had no interest in essay writing I asked him to write me a two page essay. I suggested several subjects, inducing, his family, his school, the area where he lived, music, gardens. Blank looks. So I asked, "What are your interests? What do you do at weekends all day?" His only interest was football. After a moment registering what seemed a dead end, I said brightly: "What would you like to write about - your favourite footballer, your favourite team, the rules of football?" He brightened up, but could not find a sentence to say.

I persisted. "What football programme do you watch? Can you write down the time and name for me so I can watch it? What's the name of your favourite team?"

I wondered whether I had achieved my purpose. I had. The next week he came back with a long English essay, four A4 pages! All about football. I was delighted.

I am now geared up to give a speech or encourage a speaker, using football, football museums and statues of footballers as the subject.

Football Sculptures To See
Bust of Cristiano Ronaldo at Cristiano Ronaldo airport, Madeira
Splash (was outside the original site of the Football Museum which was in Preston and has moved to Manchester. See Wikipedia shows pictures of the Bobby Moore sculpture at Wembley Stadium, London, England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_association_football_statues

The Sir Tom Finney, a pub in Penwortham, near Preston.

Tips
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_Museum
Urbis Building, Cathedral Gardens, Todd St, City Centre, Manchester M4 3BG, UK
Phone: +44 161 605 8200.
Opened: February 16, 2001
Hours: Open today (Friday March 31 2017)· 10AM–5PM.
The museum contains the Lowry painting: Going To The Match.

At the end of the Wikipedia article you will find links to the Hall of Fame for many other countries and areas such as Asia, Australia, Canada, Germany, Israel, Scotland.

Summary of Sites To Visit
UK
The Sir Tom Finney, a pub in Penwortham, near Preston.
Statue Splash (still in Preston?)

Portuguese
Bust of Cristiano Ronaldo at airport, Madeira
http://www.complex.com/style/2014/06/the-most-important-soccer-statues-worldwide/headbutt

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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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Madeira Airport, Renamed, Gets Footballer Cristiano Ronaldo's Bust

Madeira airport has been named after Cristiano Ronaldo, star of Real Madrid. The man was invited to the opening (with his mother and his girlfriend) and to see the bust of himself.

There's a fantastic photo opportunity. A very striking sculpture. When Ronaldo arrived and after he left children were keen to get selfies with the brass bust.

More on Portugal, Madeira, and places named after famous people in the next posts.
Good photo on the BBC website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39434585

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