{"id":642367,"date":"2026-10-10T17:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/642367\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T17:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:06:13","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-provisionally-suspended-after-portugal-walkout-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/642367\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo provisionally suspended after Portugal walkout \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cristiano-ronaldo\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cristiano-ronaldo\/\">Cristiano Ronaldo<\/a> has been provisionally suspended by Portugal after walking out on the national team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ronaldo left the Portugal squad after he was an unused substitute for a 2-1 win away to Norway in the Nations League on September 27th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The 41-year-old, who has scored a record-breaking 146 goals in 234 appearances for his country, subsequently issued a near 2,000-word statement saying he withdrew from the squad after a \u201cbreach of trust\u201d between him and head coach Jorge Jesus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The Portuguese Football Federation has now stepped in, confirming in a statement reported by Lisbon-based newspaper A Bola: \u201cDisciplinary proceedings were initiated against Cristiano Ronaldo, by decision of the non-professional section, on October 9, 2026, with the objective of ascertaining the potential disciplinary relevance of the facts reported on October 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cWithout 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">\u201cThe proceedings were sent, on October 10, 2026, to the disciplinary instruction committee of the FPF (Portuguese Football Federation), with publicity excluded until the end of the investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ronaldo missed Portugal\u2019s following two fixtures, wins over Denmark and Norway, which left them top of Group A4 with four straight victories, fuelling speculation his international career could be over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Jesus left the door open to the veteran forward in a press conference after Sunday\u2019s win against Norway, saying: \u201cIf he wants to, he\u2019ll return to the national team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Ronaldo argued Jesus had reneged on an agreement about how many minutes he would play, but apologised for his actions and accepted he deserved to be sanctioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo has been provisionally suspended by Portugal after walking out on the national team. Ronaldo left the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17558,85,46,105],"class_list":["post-642367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}