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Cristiano Ronaldo has sparked controversy after captioning a photo of himself and friend Jose Semedo as 'black and white chocolate'.
The Real Madrid superstar posted the image - which shows the pair posing topless in a pool - to his Instagram account on Monday night.
But despite attracting over 3.2 million likes so far, Ronaldo's comment drew criticism from some users of the picture-sharing platform.
Alongside the photo, Ronaldo wrote: 'Perfect Mach (sic) Black And White chocolate', leading some Instagram users to claim he was being racist.
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A post shared by Cristiano Ronaldo (@cristiano) on Jul 3, 2017 at 10:48am PDT
User ramostheme commented 'Thats (sic) a little racist', while rafael22alam wrote 'You're racist' in response to Ronaldo's latest post.
Another user Areen wrote Ronaldo is very bad human being
However, a number of other users supported Ronaldo, insisting there was nothing offensive about his choice of words.
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