Portugal captain, Cristiano Ronaldo, was one of many conspicuous absentees as his team-mate Diogo Jota and his brother Andre Silva, had been each laid to relaxation.
Ronaldo was broadly anticipated to reach in Gondomar close to Porto to pay his final respects.
However the 40-year-old who performs for Al-Nassr in Saudi Arabia was nowhere to be discovered, as Jota’s membership and nation team-mates attended a wake yesterday and the funeral mass this morning.
In keeping with the Day by day Mail, Ronaldo is at the moment holidaying on the island of Majorca.
The five-time Ballon d’Or winner has been noticed in two upmarket locations on board his £5.5 million 88-feet lengthy Azimut Grande yacht.
His absence has led to criticism and outrage in his native nation.
Aside from Jota’s team-mates within the Portugal nationwide time and Liverpool, the Manchester Metropolis duo of Bernardo Silva and Ruben Dias and Manchester United defender, Diogo Dalot, had been among the many footballers who packed into the church this morning – the Igreja Matriz de Gondomar.
Joao Cancelo and Ruben Neves, who had been overwhelmed with emotion on Friday night time forward of their Membership World Cup conflict in Orlando, additionally flew in together with Portugal supervisor Roberto Martinez, who has been within the States as a member of the FIFA Membership World Cup Technical Research Group.
