Liverpool forward Jota died in a car crash<\/a> at the age of 28 in July last year, and was a close friend of midfielder Neves, having played together for Wolverhampton Wanderers and Portugal.<\/p>\nSupporters appeared to target Al-Hilal midfielder Neves before his side’s 6-0 win against Al-Taawoun in the Saudi Pro League on Saturday by repeatedly shouting “Jota” at him. <\/p>\n
“The league must take action and punish this kind of fan behaviour,” forward Ronaldo, who also plays in the Saudi league for Al-Nassr, wrote on social media.<\/p>\n
“This is no longer football, and there have to be limits. People who behave like this should never be allowed to enter a stadium again.”<\/p>\n
Neves also now wears the number 21 shirt for Portugal in Jota’s memory, and has a tattoo on his calf of him and Jota embracing.<\/p>\n
Ronaldo played with both players for the national team. <\/p>\n
In the footage, Neves can be seen sarcastically applauding a section of fans off-camera, before pointing to the sky and then looking towards them. <\/p>\n
After the match, Neves told reporters: “I just hope they don’t go to pray later after what they did.”<\/p>\n
Liverpool forward Jota died alongside his brother Andre Silva in the crash in the Spanish province of Zamora. <\/p>\n
He scored 65 goals in 182 appearances for Liverpool after signing from Wolves in 2020, and made his international debut in 2019, scoring 14 goals in 49 games for Portugal.<\/p>\n
BBC Sport has contacted both clubs for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo has called for lifetime bans to be issued to fans who chanted the late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-623551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}