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Former Manchester United star Cristiano Ronaldo opted to keep away from worldwide teammate Diogo Jota’s funeral yesterday.
The footballing world was rocked earlier this week by the devastating information of Jota and his brother’s demise.
The 2 gamers have been travelling again from vacation in Portugal in a automobile to catch a ferry in Northern Spain to take them to England.
Stories counsel they suffered an accident while overtaking on the motorway.
A funeral was held yesterday within the brothers’ hometown of Gondomar, Portugal, that was well-attended by his membership and worldwide teammates, together with United pair Bruno Fernandes and Diogo Dalot.
One notable absentee was that of Cristiano Ronaldo who selected to not attend the ceremony.
Portuguese paper A Bola studies that, “Cristiano Ronaldo didn’t attend the funeral ceremonies of Diogo Jota and André Silva in order to not create a media circus that might solely create much more bother for the households of the late gamers.”
The Al Nassr ahead has been involved “with the folks closest to the previous Liverpool striker and collectively they agreed that this might be the most suitable choice.”
Ronaldo’s absence has been a sizzling matter on social media the place some folks referred to as him out for not attending and believed it was his position because the nationwide crew captain to be there.
Nonetheless, his argument was “his standing as a world star can be extra dangerous than helpful, drawing extreme consideration at a time when the utmost modesty is required.”
In line with the newspaper, the previous United ahead has “assured his household that he’ll all the time be current, having spoken to Diogo Jota’s mother and father and spouse, Rute.”
Jota’s worldwide coaches Fernando Santos and Roberto Martínez have been in attendance, nevertheless.
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