Cristiano Ronaldo did not attend the funeral of Portugal teammate Diogo Jota. The Liverpool forward and his brother Andre were killed in a car crash in northwest Spain in the early hours of Thursday morning. The two were laid to rest in their hometown of Gondomar on Saturday in a private funeral mass.

Cristiano Ronaldo was absent from Diogo Jota's funeral on Saturday. Jota's final goodbye took place in his hometown at a Gondomar church, near Porto, Portugal, following his and brother Andre Silva's tragic deaths in a road incident in Spain.

Cristiano Ronaldo is facing backlash from football fans after he failed to attend the funeral of Diogo Jota and his brother held in Gondomar on Saturday morning.