Cristiano Ronaldo dedicates goal to Diogo Jota after superstar was criticised for missing funeral as Portugal play first match since footballer’s tragic death
Cristiano Ronaldo paid an emotional tribute to Armenia with a 5-0 win for Portugal with his ex-team Diogo Jota.
World Cup qualifiers were the first match of Portugal since the tragic death of Jota and his brother Andre Silva in a car accident in Spain on July 3.
Liverpool Forward Jota made 49 matches for Portugal after he made his release in 2019 and scored 14 goals.
He played 32 times for Portugal with Ronaldo and the couple met for seven goals. Both were part of the Portuguese team, which won the League of Nations less than a month before Jota’s death in June.
Joao Felix, Portugal in the 10th minute after leding Armenia Ronaldo continued to score a goal after eleven minutes.
Ronaldo dedicated Jota to Jota while pointing to the sky.
Cristiano Ronaldo paid an emotional tribute to Diogo Jota after scoring goals for Portugal
Ronaldo pointed to the sky after scoring a goal in Portugal’s first match since Jota’s death.
Jota and Ronaldo played 32 times for Portugal and joined with seven goals
Joao Cangelo also paid a brand PlayStation Celebration and paid tribute to Jota
Joao Cancelo then made 3-0 to Portugal, Ronaldo then added another goal before taking Joao Felix’s second match.
Cangelo realized Jota’s brand PlayStation Celebration.
Ronaldo was criticized after kidnapping Jota’s funeral in Portugal in Gondomar in July.
According to the Portuguese output RecordRonaldo may have chosen not to participate in the event because of sensitivities surrounding the death of his father Jose Diniz Aveiro, who died in September 2005, when Ronaldo was only 20 years old.
Ronaldo was shocked to hear Jota’s passing, but it is said that his presence did not make a journey because he did not want to overshadow the importance of people who pay their respects to Jota and his brother.
Al -Nassr forward was defended by his sister Katia on social media by her sister Katia while receiving criticism in the absence of some neighborhoods.
He went to Instagram and wrote: ‘When my father died, in addition to his loss of loss, we had to deal with a camera and curious audience in the cemetery and wherever we went.
‘And attention was not as it was in terms of access today … (Children) never left the chapel; It was only possible during the grave, that was turmoil.
Ronaldo did not attend Jota’s funeral in Portugal in July
At the funeral, the national team, such as Luís Filipe Scolari at the time, had presidents and coaches. And they certainly greeted me. The pain made me blind.
About ‘pain/family and real support … You never know what it means until you pass through it. If someone sends me a message that criticizes anything of my brother, I will block it (ignore it completely), that is, they will only do it once.
It’s tiring. Fanaticism. I don’t repeat anything for anything … Sick society … We all have families. ‘
