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Portugal
suspend Cristiano Ronaldo after walking out on national team
- Federation opens disciplinary
proceedings
- Veteran has been critical of
coach Jorge Jesus
Agence
France-Presse and Reuters
Sat 10
Oct 2026 14.30 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/oct/10/portugal-suspend-cristiano-ronaldo
Cristiano
Ronaldo has been provisionally suspended as the Portuguese football federation
opened disciplinary proceedings against the 41-year-old after his decision
to walk out on the national team.
Ronaldo
apologised to supporters on Tuesday
while criticising the Portugal coach, Jorge Jesus, and said he would serve
any “suspension that is imposed” on him.
According
to Portuguese newspaper A Bola, the FPF confirmed that disciplinary proceedings
had been opened.
“Without
prejudice to the automatic preventive suspension to which he was subject until
the date of initiation, a non-automatic preventive suspension of the player
was determined, and the proceedings were given urgent status,” the federation
was quoted as saying.
Ronaldo
gave his account of the dispute that prompted his
departure from Copenhagen before Portugal’s Nations League match against
Denmark last week.
Ronaldo
said Jesus had
agreed a plan under which the forward would miss the Norway and Denmark matches to manage his
fitness. However, on the day of the Norway game, the coach told him he would
play for 30 minutes.
“Everyone
knows the rest. I warmed up from half-time onwards, watched the minutes tick by
and wasn’t called on,” Ronaldo said. “The manager had broken his word to me.”
In the
games, Ronaldo was either an unused substitute or absent, Portugal won all three
and his replacement, Gonçalo Ramos, seized his chance by scoring three times.
Ronaldo
ended the international break with a long post to his 679 million followers on
Instagram, where he asked Jesus to acknowledge a mistake in asking him to warm
up on the sidelines and then not send them on the field against Norway. The
Portugal coach did not acknowledge any mistake.
Ronaldo
wrote that he expected a suspension under federation rules but promised his
fans “we will have one or more farewell matches.”
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