Cristiano Ronaldo He enjoyed an afternoon of generosity and love in Dortmund, giving a goal to Bruno Fernandes and hugging a child who jumped up to take a selfie, but which ended with the ‘Bug’ being dissatisfied with the stadium security.
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She was destined to be the image of the party. In the second half, with the Portuguese team 3-0, a boy of just ten years old jumped onto the field and dodged security agents until he reached the idol’s arms, smiling and ready.
They took a ‘selfie’ and the 62,000 spectators, the vast majority of whom were Turkish, applauded the beautiful gesture.
However, this unleashed chaos among other fans who also wanted their photo with Cristiano and jumped onto the pitch to evade security. to achieve his goal. ANDIn total, six more fans entered, something that had not been seen by a single player.
The annoyance of the ‘Bug’ was notorious, since their gestures showed their discomfort with each invasion and the lax security of the Dortmund stadium. In fact, In one of the videos it is seen that one of his teammates Gonçalo Ramos was tackled by accident by one of the security people who was going to arrest one of the invading fans.
The brilliance of the 39-year-old monument, the person in the world with the most followers on Instagram (632 million), had dazzled a Turkish cauldron of 62,000 people fascinated by having it a few meters away. The hundreds of ‘yellow vests’ in charge of guarding the stands could not cope.
Once the match was over, a group of agents had to surround the five-time Ballon d’Or winner because other fans jumped.
Roberto Martínez, the Portuguese coach, asked to handle these situations more carefully.
“Today the intentions were good, but we must understand that it is a very complicated moment if the intentions are bad. The players are exposed and we have to be careful“He said. “We probably have to send a message to the fans to say that it is not the right thing to do,” he proposed.
On the field, Ronaldo led alongside Pepe – 80 years between them – a Portuguese team superior to the Turkish one. Without success in a couple of shots, the job of the 7 was to fix the defenders and offer space to his attacking partners.
The Al-Nassr player, 130 goals in 209 international matches, was left without scoring and Türkiye will not be, for the moment, the 48th team that has a goal with its signature.
If he had changed the pass to Bruno for a simple shot that would have ended in a goal, he would have broken a couple of records – the oldest scorer and in six editions of the tournament – but he preferred to share.
On the rebound, another record, the highest assist in the history of the tournament with seven decisive passes and the oldest player to provide an assist in the Euro Cup. On his long list he already had the most tournaments played (6), top scorer (14), with goals in each of his five previous participations, or most games (27).
The Euro Cup is a tournament that Ronaldo, champion in 2016, has always been good at. Qualified for the round of 16, Portugal has already taken the first step towards playing in the final on July 14.
