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Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo will omit the Champions League group stage clash with rival Lionel Messi after the Italian champions didn’t order the Portugal global had examined negative in time to face Barcelona.
The Serie A champions announced Ronaldo examined obvious for COVID-19 on Oct. 13 and UEFA protocol states a participant has except 24 hours before kick off to advance again a negative take a look at before he might additionally be declared readily accessible.
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As Juve and Barca meet on Wednesday and no negative take a look at used to be presented to UEFA, Ronaldo will not be any longer going to be readily accessible for selection.
Ronaldo and Messi, who between them like claimed 11 of the last 12 Ballon d’Or awards, like no longer met since the Portugal captain left Accurate Madrid for Juve in 2018.
This used to be as a result of be their first come upon in a Champions League group stage, though they’d perchance gain a 2d likelihood on Dec. 12 when the 2 sides face every other again at Camp Nou.
Following two obvious assessments amongst Juve staff, avid gamers at the club like been placed in fiduciary isolation, the set apart they like been expected to quarantine internal their very like bubble. Nonetheless, Ronaldo used to be one in every of a range of avid gamers who left early to affix their respective national groups for the worldwide spoil.
While with Portugal, though asymptomatic, Ronaldo examined obvious for COVID-19, and returned to Italy on a particularly sanitised ambulance jet.
Italian sports minister Vincenzo Spadafora had accused Ronaldo of breaking the nation’s coronavirus protocol — however the 35-year-stale denied this claim, calling it a “lie” in an Instagram submit.
