Vitinha said, this Wednesday, that he is hoping that Cristiano Ronaldo will be reinstated in the plans of Portugal’s main team, after having abandoned the last training camp, in protest at the way he was managed by Jorge Jesus (with whom he himself had already worked, last season, at Al Nassr).
Faced with this controversy, in the quick interview area of ​​the Brazilian television station TNT Sportsafter the triumph achieved by ‘his’ Paris Saint-Germain over Manchester City, at the Etihad Stadium, by 2-4, the Portuguese international said: “It was, really, a somewhat turbulent break for national teams…”.
“As I said, there were a lot of emotions. On my part, I just hope that everything works out for the best, that he comes back and that everything is fine. The truth is that we all want that, I think, and I hope that happens, that he comes back and that everything is sorted out”, he said, after being elected man of the match, in the match on the second day of the Champions League league stage.
Cristiano Ronaldo is suspended by the FPF
The Disciplinary Council of the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) issued, last Saturday, a statement in which it reported the “Initiation of disciplinary proceedings against Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro, by decision of the Non-Professional Section, on October 9, 2026, with the aim of determining the possible disciplinary relevance of the facts reported on October 7, 2026”.
“Without prejudice to the automatic preventive suspension to which he was subject until the date of inauguration, the player’s non-automatic preventive suspension was determined and the process was given an urgent nature. The process was sent, on October 10, 2026, to the FPF Disciplinary Instruction Committee, with publicity excluded until the end of the instruction”, clarified the organization.
It now remains to be seen whether (and when) Cristiano Ronaldo will, effectively, return to being an option for Portugal’s main team, and, in less than a month, Jorge Jesus will publish the list of players called up for the matches of the last two rounds of the Nations League group stage, against Denmark (on November 14th, at Braga Municipal Stadium) and Wales (on November 17th, at Cardiff City Stadium).
Vitinha and PSG ‘fly’ in the Champions League
Controversies aside, Vitinha is maintaining his status as an undisputed starter in the plans of Paris Saint-Germain’s coach, Spaniard Luis Enrique, and did his thing again, this time, with a well-aimed shot, in the 32nd minute, which, at the time, put the two-time European champions 0-3 ahead over the also ‘powerful’ Manchester City, in England.
All in all, with this result, PSG remains at the top of the overall Champions League standings, with six points won out of a possible six, as many as Barcelona, ​​Aston Villa, Stuttgart, Liverpool, Sporting, Arsenal, Real Madrid and Real Betis, meaning it is well positioned to guarantee direct qualification to the round of 16.
