{"id":491777,"date":"2026-10-10T18:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T18:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/491777\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T18:08:08","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-suspended-by-portugal-after-walkout-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/491777\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo suspended by Portugal after walkout \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Portuguese soccer federation has suspended Cristiano Ronaldo and initiated disciplinary proceedings against the player for walking out on the team.<\/p>\n

The federation said in a statement Saturday that the case has been referred to its disciplinary investigation committee and that its findings will remain confidential until its conclusions are reached.<\/p>\n

The 41-year-old Ronaldo left the Portugal team camp<\/a> during the international window in a dispute with new coach Jorge Jesus over a lack of playing time.<\/p>\n

In the games Ronaldo was either an unused substitute or absent, Portugal won all three and his replacement Gon\u00e7alo Ramos seized his chance by scoring three times.<\/p>\n

Ronaldo ended the international break with a long post to his 679 million followers on Instagram, where he asked the Portugal coach to acknowledge a mistake in asking him to warm up on the sidelines and then not send them on the field against Norway. Jesus did not acknowledge any mistake.<\/p>\n

The star wrote that he expected a suspension under federation rules but promised his fans \u201cwe will have one or more farewell matches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ronaldo could possibly face a harsh punishment for leaving the training camp. The federation\u2019s disciplinary regulations say that any player who \u201cabandons or fails to appear\u201d without justification at a training session, match or activity of the national teams \u201cshall be sanctioned with a suspension of one to six months,\u201d in addition to a fine.<\/p>\n

Ronaldo did tell the federation that he was leaving<\/a>, but it wasn\u2019t clear whether the decision would be considered justified in accordance with the regulations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have already apologized, but I know that actions must have consequences. Anyone in football as I am knows that, regardless of each person\u2019s status, the rules are the same for everyone,” Ronaldo wrote in his statement this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portuguese soccer federation has suspended Cristiano Ronaldo and initiated disciplinary proceedings against the player for walking out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,1083],"class_list":["post-491777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}