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Fernando Santos says he has not spoken to Cristiano Ronaldo since World Cup

Fernando Santos (left) and Cristiano Ronaldo during the World Cup last-16 game against Switzerland
Fernando Santos (left) and Cristiano Ronaldo during the World Cup last-16 game against Switzerland, which the captain started on the bench. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA

Fernando Santos has revealed he has not spoken to Cristiano Ronaldo since the end of the 2022 World Cup, during which the Portugal captain was dropped. The two worked together in the national team setup for eight years and won the Euros together in 2016 but the tournament in Qatar ended with Ronaldo on the bench and Morocco knocking out Portugal in the quarter-finals.

Santos, who recently left Poland after a poor start to their Euro 2024 qualifying campaign, says he would not change anything he did during the World Cup. “We don’t talk since … I don’t know which day, but since we came back from Qatar,” Santos told A Bola.

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