Cristiano Ronaldo slammed for partying, leaving son behind

Real Madrid footballer Cristiano Ronaldo was urged to go home and be a father after he headed out to party in New York, leaving his 3-week son behind with his granny.

The footie ace received much flak for ignoring his newly born son.

"I don't consider this situation normal," the Daily Star quoted psychologist Luis Villas-Boas, director of a children's home in the Algarve, as saying.

The 25-year-old sport star has been in the US with girlfriend Irina Shayk for a week.

"Going off on holiday with your girlfriend and leaving your baby with its grandmother and other family doesn't show he has a sense of paternity or the notion of what it is to be a father and have a son. In his place, I'd be playing with the baby," said Boas.

According to reports, Ronaldo paid an American surrogate mother to have his baby who was born on June 17.

Cristiano recently revealed becoming a father and said that he had reached an agreement with the unnamed mother to raise the child himself.

"I don't know the details of the agreement but ideally, a child should grow up with its mum and dad," Boas said.

Ronaldo reportedly was preparing to leave New York for Miami.