🏝️ Madeira has a team in Portugal’s top league again, but will football on the island benefit?

Cristiano Ronaldo's former club Nacional are back in Liga Portugal this season!

Madeira is Cristiano Ronaldo’s island.

Anyone who has visited the remote archipelago 320 miles off the coast of northern Africa is aware of that fact.

There’s a bust of Ronaldo (replaced since it originally went viral for its peculiar appearance) at Madeira’s airport, officially named Cristiano Ronaldo International Airport. There’s a museum honouring th…