Cristiano Ronaldo holidays on a yacht in Mallorca with partner Georgina Rodriguez after missing team-mate Diogo Jota’s funeral for ‘personal reasons’ (Photos)

Superstar footballer, Cristiano Ronaldo has been pictured for the first time since missing the funeral of Diogo Jota, who tragically passed away following a traffic accident last week.

Jota, 28, and his brother, Andre Silva, 25, were killed when their car crashed last week in northern Spain.

The accident occurred just 11 days after Jota had married childhood sweetheart Rute Cardoso, also 28, who is the mother of his two sons Dinis, four, and Duarte, two as well as his baby daughter Mafalda, who is just eight months old.

The pair were laid to rest at Gondomar cemetery in Portugal on Saturday afternoon, with many of Jota’s Portuguese international team-mates paying their respects to the forward.

However, the Portugal captain was not one of them, and it’s believed that he decided not to go to the funeral due to previous tragedies that he has suffered in his life.

A day after the funeral, Ronaldo was pictured holidaying on a yacht in Mallorca with Georgina Rodriguez.

It has been reported by Portuguese media that the 40-year-old was on board the yacht when many had expected him to fly to Gondomar, a muncipality near Porto.

According to the Portuguese outlet Record, Ronaldo may have opted not to attend the event due to sensitivities surrounding the death of his father, Jose Diniz Aveiro, who d!ed in September 2005, when Ronaldo was just 20 years old.

Ronaldo was shocked to hear of Jota’s passing, but it is said that he did not make the journey as he did not wish for his presence to overshadow the importance of people paying their respects to Jota and his brother.

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