Joao Felix Urges The Portugal Media To ‘Not To Spoil’ Their World Cup Marketing campaign Whereas Alluding To Cristiano Ronaldo State of affairs

Portugal ahead Joao Felix has urged the nation’s media to ‘not spoil’ their World Cup marketing campaign in Qatar, after they launched a string of controversial tales about Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portuguese captain has been within the line of fireside of the media ever for the reason that World Cup started, after he got here into the event on the again of an explosive interview with Piers Morgan whereby he slammed his former membership Manchester United and their supervisor Erik ten Hag.

The Portugal dressing room was reportedly sad with their captain’s timing of the interview which created an unrest amongst the squad. Whereas the 37-year-old ahead did launch his fifth World Cup marketing campaign in model, scoring his facet’s first objective on the event within the opener towards Ghana, Ronaldo has since fired blanks within the three video games that adopted.

Felix addresses the Cristiano Ronaldo obligation forward of quarterfinals showdown

Cristiano Ronaldo certainly has had a troublesome World Cup event to this point, which is also his final ever. He has netted only one objective in 4 video games now, and has both been subbed-off throughout these outings or subbed-in. Ronaldo didn’t full a single 90 minutes in the course of the group phases, as Portugal coach Fernando Santos took his captain off in all three of the group video games, along with his substitute coming slightly earlier towards South Korea, within the sixty fifth minute.

The now free agent didn’t look completely satisfied as he had a spat with a South Korea participant whereas going off the pitch, and later had a heated change with Santos as effectively. Because of this, the veteran supervisor didn’t hesitate to make his talismanic ahead pay for his conduct, as he dropped him from the beginning line-up within the Spherical of 16 towards Switzerland. Ronaldo did come-on within the 73rd minute, when the sport was completed and dusted.

Whereas Santos nevertheless defined that the choice to axe Ronaldo was a strategic one, it’s nonetheless unclear whether or not he begins towards Morocco or not within the quarterfinals. In the meantime, in his newest press convention, Joao Felix addressed the claims of ‘Cristiano Ronaldo’ obligation within the staff, that whether or not the techniques of the staff will likely be modified for the inclusion of his captain. Felix mentioned:

The tactic is similar whether or not he’s there or not, for the reason that first sport we’ve got used the identical tactic. He has traits that others don’t have, there are others who’ve others, the staff, in any case, all the time has the identical identification.

“I don’t really feel that, that obligation to go the ball to Cristiano. We all the time attempt to discover one of the best resolution, however everybody has their very own opinion. In my opinion, I don’t really feel that stress to all the time go the ball to Cristiano. When he’s giving issues that others don’t. If he’s on the pitch, we play in a different way as a result of he brings issues to the sport. It’s not by enjoying or not enjoying that the staff will play higher or worse.”

He then urged the Portuguese media to cease creating hoo-ha across the five-time Ballon d’Or winner, when some studies claimed that he had threatened to depart the nationwide camp in the course of the event after being dropped to bench. Felix continued:

 “I simply wish to go away a message to all Portuguese folks and the media. Portugal is in an amazing competitors, I believe we should always all be extra united and never attempt to spoil the environment that we’ve got within the Choice [Portugal team].”

Fernando Santos now faces the conundrum of naming his beginning line-up for the Morocco sport, as Ronaldo’s substitute Goncalo Ramos netted an excellent hat-trick towards Switzerland to justify his choice. Portugal meet the sturdy Morocco facet who knocked Spain out within the Spherical of 16, on December 10 of their quarterfinal match-up.