--- title: Fed-Up Cristiano Ronaldo Tosses a Reporter's Mic Into a Lake description: When a TV reporter tried to get in a question with Portugal's star soccer player, the athlete just wasn't having it. canonical: https://time.com/4378028/cristiano-ronaldo-toss-mic-into-lake/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-22T15:30:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:33:37.624Z og:title: Watch Cristiano Ronaldo Toss a Reporter's Mic Into a Lake og:description: A reporter went to ask the soccer star a question, but he just wasn't having it. og:url: https://time.com/4378028/cristiano-ronaldo-toss-mic-into-lake/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt165224d395e2b9dd/698898ed196cf4296a03c207/cristiano-ronaldo-euro-2016.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2500 og:image:height: 1406 og:image:alt: FBL-EURO-2016-MATCH12-POR-ISL og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Cristiano Ronaldo Toss a Reporter's Mic Into a Lake twitter:description: A reporter went to ask the soccer star a question, but he just wasn't having it. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt165224d395e2b9dd/698898ed196cf4296a03c207/cristiano-ronaldo-euro-2016.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Fed-Up Cristiano Ronaldo Tosses a Reporter's Microphone Into a Lake  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 22, 2016 3:30 PM UTC  Portugal's forward Cristiano Ronaldo warms-up prior to the start of the Euro 2016 group F football match between Portugal and Iceland at the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium in Saint-Etienne on June 14, 2016\. / AFP / FRANCISCO LEONG (Photo credit should read FRANCISCO LEONG/AFP/Getty Images) Portugal's forward Cristiano Ronaldo warms-up prior to the start of the Euro 2016 group F football match between Portugal and Iceland at the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium in Saint-Etienne on June 14, 2016\. / AFP / FRANCISCO LEONG (Photo credit should read FRANCISCO LEONG/AFP/Getty Images)Francisco Leong — Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jun 22, 2016 3:30 PM UTC Cristiano Ronaldo may be the [world’s highest-paid athlete](http://www.forbes.com/athletes/list/) and an icon in his native Portugal, but the star footballer is still under a lot of pressure. Portugal’s performance in the Euro 2016 soccer tournament so far has been nothing short of dismal; the team now has to beat Hungary, its next opponent, just to hang on to a spot in the next round of 16. So when a reporter for Portugal’s CMTV casually approached Ronaldo as he and his cohort were taking a stroll near a lake in Lyon, France, where they’re playing their next game, the Ronaldo [lost it](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/22/cristiano-ronaldo-throws-television-reporters-microphone-into-lake). “Are you ready for today’s game?” the television reporter asks, in Portuguese. Without hesitating, the athlete grabs the mic out of his hands and tosses it into the lake. Nobody on his side bats an eye, either, except to make sure the reporter is firmly out of reach of Ronaldo. Now Portugal just has to hope that Ronaldo’s intensity is a sign of power ready to be unleashed on Hungary, as his current scoring record in the tournament [is woefully blank.](https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/22/cristiano-ronaldo-throws-television-reporters-microphone-into-lake) He came up empty in their first game against Iceland, a surprising tie, and missed a necessary penalty against Austria to leave that in a draw as well. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4378028/cristiano-ronaldo-toss-mic-into-lake/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4378028/cristiano-ronaldo-toss-mic-into-lake/"},"headline":"Fed-Up Cristiano Ronaldo Tosses a Reporter's Microphone Into a Lake","datePublished":"2016-06-22T15:30:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:37.624Z","description":"A reporter went to ask the soccer star a question, but he just wasn't having it","url":"https://time.com/4378028/cristiano-ronaldo-toss-mic-into-lake/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt165224d395e2b9dd/698898ed196cf4296a03c207/cristiano-ronaldo-euro-2016.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt165224d395e2b9dd/698898ed196cf4296a03c207/cristiano-ronaldo-euro-2016.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"FBL-EURO-2016-MATCH12-POR-ISL","caption":"FBL-EURO-2016-MATCH12-POR-ISL","creditText":"Francisco Leong — Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4378028/cristiano-ronaldo-toss-mic-into-lake/","name":"Fed-Up Cristiano Ronaldo Tosses a Reporter's Microphone Into a Lake"}}]}] ```