Cristiano Ronaldo made a young child's dream come true after he paused to take a picture with the pitch invading fan midway through Portugal's Euro 2024 clash against Turkey.
Pitch invaders usually face strict sanctions including lifetime bans from stadiums for interrupting play while running onto the turf, but Ronaldo's intervention means that is unlikely to be the case for this intruder.
Such is the clamour around Ronaldo, who is competing in a record-breaking sixth European Championship, fans have been doing everything in their power to get lose to the Portugal superstar.
Open training sessions have quickly been sold out, while some individuals have even tried to invade the pitch during practice sessions before being stopped short of Ronaldo.
However, Saturday's second group game against Turkey saw one young fan manage to evade security and get a run at Ronaldo who stopped to embrace the child.
The child then pulled out a phone and posed for a photo with Ronaldo - who happily obliged - before running away again in an attempt to evade stewards.
GRÄYSÖÑJäy
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pure humanity ⭐ GOAT
putimopruy
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For many years now, I referred to Cristiano as cr5 and I never called him Cristiano,why because he always says what I don't like about Messi whenever Messi is doing great and we felt it shouldn't be. But recently a guy on this platform changed my opinion forever about Cristiano with the way he replied without any insult but with great maturity and that day I changed my mind and vow never to insult or disrespect Cristiano again no matter the provocation. I have been banned severally on this platform and I will use other name to come again and again just to fight to defend my position but that's over.Many of you knows me very well how do my stuffs without apology. Apology to Cristiano and his fans for referring to him as cr5 for years I did it go get to his fans which is too bad. But I don't want Cristiano to say any negative thing about Messi,because Messi fans can never be happy, but then both are great. The truth is Cristiano does not need to prove anything to anyone again, Cristiano fans should understand that, whether he scores again or not he remains one of the greatest player ever with world cup or without world cup.