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Cristiano Ronaldo is infected with covid-19. The news shocked the national team on Monday night and put the world on edge Tuesday morning when the Portuguese Football Federation made it public. And now? The captain awaits the result of the third test, after a positive and an unfinished one. As it was a test requested by the player from a different laboratory, the Federation left it to the player to decide whether to reveal it or not, depending on the DN.. Until then, he remains isolated, in a room, in the Casa dos Atletas, in Cidade do Futebol, and the match with Sweden fails for the League of Nations. He soon has a hot foot with the Swedes: seven goals in four games.
Ronaldo is the third positive case in the national team in 15 days and one of the 1208 cases in Portugal, in the last 24 hours. Before the match with Spain (0-0), José Fonte was discharged from the national team after testing positive. Days later it was up to Anthony Lopes to leave the job of the national team, for the same reason, missing the game with France. (0-0). Now, on the eve of the game with Sweden, CR7 tested positive as a common mortal.
The players of the national team carried out the covid-19 tests, 48 hours before the match against Sweden (tonight, at the José Alvalade Stadium, at 7.45 p.m.), as required by the UEFA regulations and the regulations of the Directorate General Health. One of these tests positive. By Cristiano Ronaldo. As soon as the laboratory completed the analysis, it informed the regional health delegate and the Portuguese Football Federation, which informed the Juventus player. Ronaldo learned that he was infected on Monday night and was immediately isolated, in a room, at the Casa dos Atletas, in Cidade do Futebol, and subjected to a new analysis, on Tuesday morning, to answer questions. as he had no symptoms. This test was not conclusive so it was necessary to have a third party in a different laboratory (still awaiting results). The player stayed in the room and even watched the training from the balcony. Smiling and thumbs up, the captain cheered on the troops.
CR7 did six tests in the last seven days (like the other selected players) until one of them (carried out on Monday) is positive. Portugal’s match with Sweden was never in danger. Despite the three positive cases (José Fonte, Anthony Lopes and Cristiano Ronaldo), the Health authorities did not indicate these cases as an outbreak or quarantine the group. so that the postponement of the departure from the League of Nations was not justified. Just as the match against Spain (though private) was not questioned after José Fonte tested positive, neither was the match with France after Anthony Lopes was infected.
Training and conference delayed due to risk stratification
Furthermore, all other players and elements of the personal It tested negative within 24 hours of the game with the Swedes, allowing them to practice on Tuesday afternoon. The training was postponed (from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.), as well as the press conference of Fernando Santos (from 12 a.m. to 7 p.m.), not because of the captain’s fault, but to comply with the sanitary protocol, since it was necessary to give time to the regional delegate of health of Oeiras to make the risk stratification. That is, define if any player or element of the personal were placed in prophylactic isolation by direct and continuous contact with. Something that didn’t happen until Tuesday night.
According to the health protocol drawn up between the DGS and the Federation, “the positive case must be isolated, making it impossible to participate in training and competitions until the cure is determined, under the terms of Standard 004/2020 (symptomatic) or applicable Standard. .010/2020 (asymptomatic) of the DGS “. Ronaldo, like anyone else, depends on recovering from illness to get back to playing. And in Italy there are already reports of the matches that could fail for Juventus, one of them is the meeting with Barcelona for the Champions League. In addition to the reunion with Messi, the winger may miss matches with Crotone and Verona for Calcio and Dynamo Kiev for the Champions League.
As soon as it became known that CR7 was infected, the world ran to the player’s social media for a first-person reaction and found a photograph, which in other times would be extremely normal and revealing the good atmosphere of the national team, but which in times of pandemic are questionable. The captain showed the good humor of the working group at the table, on Instagram, with the following message: “United on and off the field.” A dinner with more than 20 people without adequate distance. This occurs at a time when the Director General of Health has insisted that family dinners have been a considerable potential contagion. Despite the fact that the group was isolated for almost 15 days, a greater physical distance was to be expected, among other things because most of the eligible ones come from countries that go through a second wave (England, France, Spain and Italy) and some with cases of coronavirus in the clubs. (Juventus, Lyon and Lille).
The captain of the national team and six other Juventus players also made headlines last week for breaking Juventus’ isolation to join their respective teams.. The Turin team was isolated after two positive cases of covid-19 were detected in the group bianconeri. The athletes were only allowed to leave the hotel to train and play, in addition to being prohibited from contact with people outside the group until they received the result of the second covid-19 test. Something that, according to the Italian press, the players did, now facing a process for disrespecting the anti-covid-19 rules of the transalpine country.
Fernando Santos: “Ronaldo is fine and says he just wants to play”
“Cristiano Ronaldo is fine. Was isolated yesterday [segunda-feira] the night. In the morning he started testing again. Cristiano is in the room, he says he wants to play, to communicate with us from up there. Okay, completely asymptomatic, he doesn’t even understand very well what happened to him.“, revealed Fernando Santos, at the press conference prior to Portugal’s game against Sweden, on Wednesday, at the Estádio José Alvalade (19.45).
The coach also said that it was not in the national team where the contagion occurred: “Since Monday we are completely confined here. The squad and players have entered and no one else has entered. There is no one outside to enter. In the first stage We had no problems, but it happened here and it was not for breaking the rules. This is not where the virus attacked. We did seven tests, every day they tested us, so obviously this is what gives us the taste that everything has passed. Whatever the DGS rules, we have followed them to the letter. “
The absence of the captain due to covid-19 was a serious blow. “I said before, no team in the world gets better without the best in the world. But this team has already shown that it has the ability to respond collectively and I have full confidence in the players. If I would like to have it, yes, but I have absolute confidence in those who play ”, replied the 2016 European champion coach, who is already the coach with the most matches ahead of the team (76).
Without being able to count on the Juventus player against Sweden (Wednesday, at 7.45pm, Estádio José Alvalade), which team will he bet on? “The plan is the same. Of course, the dynamic is different. Cristiano has his own characteristics and that is what the commentators themselves say. Having Cristiano, who is a more mobile player, obviously in these details is different. But the team has played without him and he did well, but that has to do with the DNA that the team now has, ”explained Fernando Santos without revealing whether he will enter the field with Trincão, João Félix and André Silva.
