Cristiano Ronaldo has fired back at the Italian sports minister’s accusation that he violated COVID-19 protocols after he returned to the country after testing positive for the virus on international duty.It was revealed this week that the Portuguese star had tested positive for the illness in advance of his country’s match with Sweden on Wednesday and is currently quarantined in Turin after leaving the Portuguese camp by private air ambulance.Italian Minister of Sport Vincenzo Spadafora said on Thursday that he thought that Ronaldo may have violated protocol by leaving Italy to join Portugal’s Nations League squad while Juventus were in isolation after two members of the non-playing staff tested positive. “The fame and greatness of certain footballers doesn’t allow them to be arrogant, disrespectful towards our institutions and to lie,” Spadafora said to Italy’s ANSA news agency.“I reiterate what I said yesterday regarding some Juventus players abandoning their team hotel, comments which I based on Juventus’ own communications with […]
‘That is simply a lie’: Cristiano Ronaldo rejects Italian minister’s suggestion that he broke COVID-19 protocols
