President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan criticized the decision of Portuguese National Team Coach Fernando Santos to put Cristiano Ronaldo on the bench during the World Cup qualifiers to be played in Qatar.
They shouldn’t have done this to Ronaldo. Unfortunately, they imposed political sanctions on Ronaldo. If you leave a football player like Ronaldo half an hour before the end of the match, it will demoralize him and take his energy… According to my information, Ronaldo is going to Saudi Arabia now. Ronaldo is the person who supports the Palestinian cause. “Now Mbappe is the future, he is the future,” Erdogan said. news agency anatolia.
On 10 December, Portugal’s national team lost 0:1 to Morocco in the quarter-final match of the World Cup held in Qatar. Ronaldo started this game on the bench. The midfielder took the field only in the 51st minute and did not make his mark with effective moves. Ronaldo also remained on the bench in the 1/8 final match against Switzerland.
It is worth noting that the player who replaced Ronaldo in the starting line-up made a hat-trick in the 1/8 final match.
Previously in Saudi Al-Nasr He said that negotiations with Ronaldo are of great importance for the whole country..
Source: Gazeta
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