Cristiano Ronaldo breaks down in floods of tears after penalty miss vs Slovenia leaving mum distraught in stands
CRISTIANO RONALDO was in floods of tears after missing an extra-time penalty amid extraordinary scenes at Euro 2024.
Ron's mum Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro was spotted distraught in the stands too after Jan Oblak brilliantly foiled Ronaldo's 105th-minute spot-kick in Portugal's last-16 nail-biter with Slovenia.
The legend at first just put his head in his arms and carried on.
But when the first period of the additional half-hour ended a few seconds later, his emotions erupted.
Team-mates tried to console Ron as tears streamed out, seemingly uncontrollably.
And when cameras panned to the stands, his mum also looked tearful.
Ronaldo entered the game on a career-worst run of seven games in international tournaments without a goal.
And as Portugal struggled against outstanding defending from Slovenia, the Manchester United legend had just a couple of chances in normal time to break that duck.
Slovenia's outstanding defending limited him to just a couple of half-chances in normal time.
Then came his extra-time woe from the spot.
But Ronaldo made up for it when the clash went to penalties.
He smashed his spot-kick in the opposite corner - and rather than celebrating he APOLOGISED to fans with a gesture across his chest.
Portugal then clinched a 3-0 shootout success following the 0-0 draw.
