Criticism of Cristiano Ronaldo continues after he cried during the Portugal-Slovenia match, the latest of which came from Dutch football legend Ruud Gullit.
Ronaldo missed a penalty kick in extra time, but he returned and scored a penalty kick and contributed to his country’s 3-0 victory and qualification to the Euro 2024 quarter-finals.
German football legend Dieter Hamann had said that this crying was an indication of how selfish Ronaldo was, who had to leave the field because he was mentally out of the match.
As for Gullit, he said, “Ronaldo tried to take every free kick that came to Portugal, even though he scores one out of every 60 free kicks.”
He also added, “In Portugal there are those who shoot better than him, but he wants to steal the spotlight as usual. Frankly, I did not like what happened in the match.”
He concluded, “He wasted all those free kicks and failed to score a penalty kick, then he burst into tears. I see them as crocodile tears. What Ronaldo is doing is truly unacceptable.”
