Cristiano Ronaldo will not appear on the Portugal v Sweden scoresheet on Wednesday.
The Portuguese Football Federation has announced that the striker will be withdrawn after testing positive for Covid-19, confirming information revealed by the Portuguese television channel
A Bola TV
, The 35-year-old player "is doing well and is not deploring any symptom ", however reassured the FPF which indicates that the other tests carried out within the selection, players and staff included / understood, turned out to be negative.
Immediately placed in isolation, the five-time Golden Ball should also miss the trip of Juventus on the lawn of Crotone on Saturday night in Serie A (8:45 p.m.).
The news will necessarily worry in the ranks of the France team.
Sunday evening, the Juventus Turin striker started against the Blues on the third day of the Nations League.
"CR7" even played the entire game ended in a draw (0-0).
Images repeated in a loop by the media, showed in particular the Portuguese exchanging a few words with Kylian Mbappé and a hug between the two men.
But the Paris SG striker has already tested positive in early September.
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For Eduardo Camavinga too, these revelations could have unintended consequences.
The Rennes midfielder was able to recover the Portuguese jersey after the match at the Stade de France.
A flocked tunic of the number 7 that Camavinga hastened to exhibit on social networks, proclaiming with humor and not without a certain pride: "I do not wash it".
At a press conference this Tuesday evening, Didier Deschamps, however, was reassuring on the subject by declaring that no player had tested positive to date (the incubation period of the virus being around 3 to 5 days).
"Everyone will be there," said the coach from Zagreb the day before the match against Croatia.
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Cristiano Ronaldo's positive test could also cringe some teeth in Italy.
The player as well as a handful of international Juventus (Bentancur, Cuadrado, Danilo, Dybala, Buffon and Demiral) had left Turin early last week to join their selection, despite the isolation procedure imposed on the hotel and without waiting for the final tests after the discovery of two positive cases in the ranks of the "Old Lady".
This breach of the measures taken by the Italian club could be subject to a penalty.
"The club itself reported that some players had left the place of isolation and therefore we will inform the competent authority, that is to say the prosecution, of what happened," said Roberto Testi , one of the officials of the local health authority taken over by the Italian agency
Ansa
.
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