{"id":146472,"date":"2022-12-03T00:36:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T00:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ronaldo-insulted-by-south-korea-player\/"},"modified":"2022-12-03T00:36:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T00:36:14","slug":"ronaldo-insulted-by-south-korea-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ronaldo-insulted-by-south-korea-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo ‘insulted’ by South Korea player"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AL RAYYAN, Qatar — Cristiano Ronaldo was “insulted” by South Korea player Cho Gue-sung as he left the pitch, according to Fernando Santos, as the Portugal coach sought to defend the striker’s frustrated reaction to being substituted.<\/p>\n
Ronaldo appeared to have a verbal exchange with Cho as he walked towards the benches and then put his finger to his mouth.<\/p>\n
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The 37-year-old looked unhappy at the decision to bring him off in the 65th minute but after the 2-1 defeat which sent South Korea into the last 16, Santos insisted it was his interaction with Cho that had made the former Manchester United forward “angry”.<\/p>\n
“The player from Korea was insulting him telling him to go away, so that is the reason why he was angry, everyone saw that,” said Santos.<\/p>\n
“I saw the interaction with the Korea player and I don’t have any doubts about it and if you see the images you see Pepe went towards the Korea player.<\/p>\n
“He was not aggressive, he was only verbally aggressive, he was speaking in English to Cristiano, and Cristiano said, ‘Perhaps he had a bad day.'”<\/p>\n