Cristiano Ronaldo’s conduct in Portugal’s Euro 2024 spherical of 16 win over Slovenia final night time has been described as “embarrassing” and “out of order” by former Liverpool and Germany midfielder Dietmar Hamann.
Ronaldo, who minimize a annoyed determine all through the sport in Frankfurt, burst into tears after seeing his penalty brilliantly saved by Jan Oblak within the first half of extra-time with the sport ending 0-0 after 120 minutes.
The 39-year-old did atone for his earlier mis by scoring within the shoot-out as Portugal progressed 3-0 on spot-kicks however Hamann was nonetheless unimpressed by his antics.
Talking on Irish TV station RTE, he mentioned: “Thirty-nine-year-old performs 120 minutes, he misses a penalty and I’ve obtained to say, I purchased into all that ‘Ronaldo has became a group participant as a result of he wants the group greater than he used to’. I purchased into that nonsense as effectively, however I believe he confirmed his true colors once more tonight.
“Lacking the penalty, he begins crying on the pitch, he begins crying at half-time in extra-time. And I’m pondering ‘it’s all about you’.
“There’s a squad of 26 gamers, there’s 20 employees, there’s 30 or 40,000 followers in there, it’s not about you.
“You attempt to be impartial, however I used to be cheering Slovenia on as a result of I believed the response was embarrassing, I believed it was out of order.
“I’ve by no means seen something prefer it, as a result of when you present feelings, when you get emotional, it’s the top of it.
“In order that was the purpose the place the supervisor needed to say, ‘you’ve obtained to come back off since you’re not in the best way of thinking to hold on enjoying’.”
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Hamann did give the Al-Nassr striker reward for gathering himself to take a penalty within the shoot-out, including: “Credit score to him he took the primary penalty and he took it effectively, it was an excellent penalty, however as I mentioned I purchased into all that ‘Ronaldo’s became a group participant’, it’s absolute nonsense.
“All he thinks about is himself.
“He scores the penalty and apologises to the followers, he doesn’t have to apologise. He’ll begin the subsequent sport however I can’t see some other end result than a France win.”
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Portugal coach Roberto Martinez praised his captain afterwards and claimed it was a “victory for unity”.
The previous Belgium boss mentioned: “Ronaldo missed a penalty after which was decisive when he began the penalty shoot-out, he paved the way in which.
“It was a victory for unity, from the dressing room and Cristiano is our captain and he confirmed that in life and in soccer there are tough moments and we will’t quit, we have now to maintain going and it was an illustration of what to do when issues aren’t going effectively.”
