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Losing the game against Sweden
Of: Johanna Frändén, Linn Nordström, Michael Wagner
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LISBON. Cristiano Ronaldo has tested positive for covid-19.
Therefore, the match against Sweden is lost.
Other players in Portugal have been retested and all those tests have been negative, according to the Portuguese Football Association.
Sweden faces Portugal on Wednesday night in the Nations League.
The obvious main character is superstar Cristiano Ronaldo who scored both goals when the teams met on Friends in September.
During the day, there has been various information about how Portugal trains and has a press conference before the game at the Alvalade Stadium.
ABola revealed
Now, on Tuesday afternoon, the Portuguese ABola reveals the reason for the many schedule changes and the information of the Portuguese team.
Cristiano Ronaldo is said to have given an incomplete covid-19 test.
The postponement of the activities of the Portuguese team has been made pending a new test result of the Juventus star, says ABola, who has published the information on his television broadcasts here in Portugal.
A moment later, the final message came from the Portuguese Football Association: the second test was positive and Cristiano Ronaldo missed the game against Sweden on Wednesday night.
Ronaldo has been immediately isolated from other players and leaders of the Portuguese team. The 35-year-old, responsible for 101 goals on the national team, is said to have no symptoms of the disease.
The rest of the national team has been tested again, but all tests were negative.
Photo: JOEL MARKLUND / BILDBYRÅN
Kulusevski obeyed
Cristiano Ronaldo has previously made headlines during this meeting of the national team when he quarantined Juventus and prepared and played in Portugal’s training match against Spain last Wednesday.
His teammate Dejan Kulusevski, on the other hand, chose to follow the quarantine rules and stayed at Juventus’ training facilities, thus missing Sweden’s training match against Russia.
– I followed what they told me and had no problems with that. The Juve doctor said the best thing is for me to stay there. I was quarantined at Juve’s training facilities so I could train twice a day. So everyone does what is best for them, but I think the best was what they had told me and that was to stay there, says Kulusevski about the decision.
Receive harsh criticism
Cristiano Ronaldo, the players of the national team and the actions of the management of the Portuguese team are now being questioned from various sectors.
Last night, the superstar posted a selfie on his Instagram account with Ronaldo himself on the short side of a long table with players from the Portuguese national team dining together, very close together.
In the image, Ronaldo published the text:
“United inside and out on the grass.”
Now many believe that it will also soon mean more covid-19 infected Portuguese national team players.
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