Cristiano Ronaldo Spotted On Vacation After Missing Diogo Jota’s Funeral

Portuguese football icon, Cristiano Ronaldo, was spotted on a private yacht enjoying a quiet holiday with his lover, Georgina Rodriguez, days after skipping Diogo Jota’s funeral.

Cristiano Ronaldo, being the captain of the Portugal national team, was expected to lead his other teammates to the funeral of Diogo Jota and his younger brother, Andrea Silva, who died in a ghastly car accident in Spain on Thursday, July 3.

The demise of Jota came barely one month after the 28-year-old forward shared the pitch with Ronaldo as they both helped Portugal win the Nations League trophy against Spain on June 8.

Hours after Jota’s demise, the 40-year-old Portuguese icon was among the first set of players who took to social media to mourn the Liverpool forward.

But to the surprise of many, Cristiano Ronaldo was absent from Jota’s funeral, which took place in Gondomar, a municipality near Porto.

Amid criticism over his absence from the funeral, Ronaldo and his lover were pictured holidaying on a yacht in Mallorca earlier today, July 7.

Before now, a Portuguese outlet Record, shared that Ronaldo decided to stay away from the funeral to avoid overshadowing the ceremony. This scenario played out when Ronaldo attended his father, Jose Diniz Aveiro’s funeral in 2005, despite being just 20 years old then.

Ronaldo’s elder sister, Katia, has also taken to Instagram to defend the Al-Nassr striker, urging his critics to stop criticising the footballer over his absence from the funeral.

She wrote: “When my father died, in addition to the pain of loss, we had to deal with a flood of cameras and curious onlookers at the cemetery and everywhere we went.

“And attention was not what it is today in terms of access… At no time were we (the children) able to leave the chapel; it was only possible at the time of the burial, such was the commotion.

“At the funeral, there were presidents, coaches of the national team at the time, such as Luís Filipe Scolari, etc. I don’t remember seeing any of them. And they certainly greeted me. The pain blinded me.

“About pain/family and real support… You will never know what it means until you go through it. If someone sends me a message criticising anything my brother does, I will block it (completely ignore it), that is, they will only do it once.

“It’s getting tiring. The fanaticism. The criticism for nothing, I repeat nothing… Sick society… We all have families.

“It is absurdly shameful to watch TV channels/commentators/social networks emphasising an absence (wise) rather than respectfully honouring the pain of a mutilated family destroyed by the loss of two brothers. I am even ashamed to watch. Regrettable.

“And so the world goes… Society and opinion. Today they are worthless. They have become bottomless pits. I feel sorry… And war is also like that. Believe me. Human evil is also a war. And every day we have to fight against it. And so it goes.”