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 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.

Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo did not attend the funeral of Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva, in Gondomar, near Porto, on Saturday morning following the tragic car crash