Cristiano Ronaldo criticized for missing Diogo Jota’s funeral, but there’s a reasonable explanation

Cristiano Ronaldo’s absence from the funeral of Diogo Jota’s brother Andre Silva has generated intense debate in Portugal. The Al-Nassr striker, who shared a dressing room for years with Jota within the Portuguese nationwide crew, didn’t attend the ceremony held in Gondomar, which earned him quite a few criticisms justifying that, at the least as captain, he ought to have been current.

Nevertheless, his entourage justifies the choice: Ronaldo has prevented attending funerals for years for private causes and in order to not distract consideration along with his presence. The Portuguese newspaper Document revealed that Ronaldo has been affected by a trauma with this kind of public occasion since 2005, when his father, Jose Dinis Aveiro, handed away.

Since then, the participant prefers to remain out of the media highlight in conditions of mourning. Based on this data, Cristiano himself needed to keep away from his presence turning the farewell into an occasion targeted on him.

His sister Katia defends him

In any case, in response to criticism over Cristiano’s absence, his sister Katia Aveiro reacted harshly on social media: “All of us have household. It’s absurdly shameful to see how tv channels, commentators and social networks emphasize an absence as an alternative of honoring with respect the ache of a mutilated household, destroyed by the lack of two brothers. It even embarrasses me to see it. It’s unlucky”.

“About ache, household and actual help… You’ll by no means know what it means till you expertise it.When my father died, along with the ache of the loss, we needed to take care of an avalanche of cameras and onlookers on the cemetery and wherever we went,” she added. A transparent message that seeks to settle the controversy at a time marked by ache.

It’s absurdly embarrassing to see how tv channels, commentators and social networks emphasize an absence as an alternative of respectfully honoring the ache of a mutilated household

Katia Aveiro, Hermana de Cristiano Ronaldo

Regardless of not being bodily current on the Igreja da Lapa in Porto, Ronaldo did pay public tribute by his social networks: “It would not make sense, we have been nonetheless collectively within the nationwide crew… Relaxation in peace, Diogo and Andre. We’ll miss you.” Additionally, in response to the native press, he despatched a non-public message of help to the household of the Liverpool footballer.

Different members of the Portuguese nationwide crew equivalent to Bruno Fernandes, Bernardo Silva, Ruben Dias and Ruben Neves have been current on the funeral, in addition to former Liverpool teammates equivalent to Van Dijk. Neves, actually, took half as a pallbearer regardless of having performed a match with Al-Hilal simply hours earlier