THe Miami Heat’s tribute to Dwayne Wade The unveiling of a statue in his honor did not go as everyone had imagined, as the special moment took place Florida club gave to his No. 3 immediately went viral, but for reasons completely unrelated to what the franchise and the three-time winner with them would have wanted that.

Thousands of messages came from it social networks mocking what the image of the statue looked like, that at no point did they see any resemblance to the player who knew how to oppose the 20,000 spectators who knew how to fill every game Pat Riley Court at Kaseya Centeralso called Miami-Dade Arena, FTX Arena and American Airlines Arena.

The tone of the comments was clearly related to the appearance of the statue, which bears little resemblance to it in reality Dwayne Wade who shone with the Heat. “Who is that?”, “He doesn’t look like him”, “That’s X or Y or Z” and so on hundreds of messages that left no one indifferent. Even the player himself.

Wading left a sentence that gave rise to thousands of speculations about the acceptance or not of his thrown-in figure bronze when he said “I can’t believe it… Who is that guy?”. It is understood the former player said it excitedly when he saw himself reflected in a statue the club gave him.

Other ‘failed’ images around the world

This situation brought the thoughts of sports enthusiasts other failed attempts at statues of major sports idols commemorated with a statue who immortalized them in the eyes of lovers great athletes.

The images of the images of Cristiano Ronaldo (Madeira, Portugal), David Beckham (Los Angeles, USA), Diego Maradona, Ray Lewis (Baltimore), Alex Ferguson (Manchester, England), Andy Murray (Shanghai, China), Wayne Gretzky (Edmonton, Canada), Mohamed Salah (Egypt)etc. came to the fore in fans’ minds because of how poorly the tributes to these characters were handled.