In a conversation with Rio Ferdinand on the UR Cristiano Ronaldo YouTube channel, CR7 said:

🗣 “This year I lost 3 titles on penalties, but that’s football”.

“I cried the day I missed the penalty, even though I thought Jan Oblak saved it very well, I cried because I thought if I missed it and if Portugal were eliminated, it would be over, not for that reason, absolutely not.

Imagine that in the last 27 penalties I have scored, you miss just one and at that moment, it makes me feel bad about myself. I don’t even think about anything else, I feel sad for all the people who came to the stadium, especially my family, my mother, my children.

“Those are very private moments. There is no other way but to let yourself out. These are things you can’t hide. No, if you hide these feelings, you are lying to yourself. You have to be yourself.

It doesn’t matter if people like you or not, do you think I will change my way of life now, do you think that when I am about to turn 40, I will change now? Of course not.”