Few people will be able to see Ronaldo from a few meters away, and an even smaller group will be lucky enough to have their picture taken with the thirty-nine-year-old legend.
But is it worth breaking the rules and spoiling everyone else’s experience?
The first fan to jump over the barriers and head from the sideline to the field would probably tell you yes. He was the only one who succeeded and with a mobile phone in his hand penetrated to the Portuguese star in the 69th minute.
You may not have noticed this on TV, as both cameramen and directors have clear instructions not to show such images so that troublemakers don’t get attention on live broadcasts.
A happy child fan takes a photo with Cristiano Ronaldo.
The five-time owner of the Golden Ball then accepted the boy with a smile, and the first offender, still a child, had only to wave to the stands before the organizers led him out.
The Turkish fans, who were in the stadium much more than the Portuguese fans, also tried it. “We know there are a lot of Turks in Germany and we knew they would be outnumbered, but our fans were also amazing,” recounted Bernardo Silva.
“It’s a bit annoying because it interrupted the game. But that’s just the price of being a football star. But if I felt threatened? Not that,” he declared. READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>
“It’s dangerous,” Portugal coach Roberto Martínez said. “We all love fans for whom players are stars. We agree on that. But it was a tricky situation. If the supporters did not have good intentions, then the players were at their mercy. This should not happen,” he added.
But when the situation with the mobile phone was repeated, Ronaldo no longer understood and turned his back on the next intruder.
He reacted similarly on Tuesday in Leipzig, when a trio of rioters gradually came towards him after the match with the Czech team (2:1). Once, one of the members of the Portuguese implementation team even intervened, knocking the zigzagging boy in the hood to the ground even before the oncoming organizing service.
In the bowels of the stadium, the rioters were led away by the police around the buses of both teams, where fans with VIP access were waiting behind the fence to see if any of the stars would stop by.
Even before that, they were watching those who face not only high fines but also a lifetime ban from entering the stadium for trespassing. In the Euro, similar offenses are dealt with from the beginning.
On Saturday, before the Portuguese won definitively 3-0, two more people interested in an exclusive photo broke through the chain of organizers, and the chaos continued even when the players left the field. But even thanks to the quick intervention of security, no one else got to Ronaldo.
2024-06-22 21:18:09
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