Cristiano Ronaldo’s mother has responded with emotional words to the national team scandal in Portugal involving her son.

Goal | 09.10.2026 12:26
"I am sad, that is normal. It was a shock. My son could have gone through the big door, and instead he went through the small door," Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro (71) told the Portuguese magazine TV 7 Dias. "But that does not matter, God will take care of it." Because of the incidents, she said she had "cried a little. That does you good as well, to let something out. We have to get through this now."