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After he withdrew from the training session with the substitutes, and underwent a light training session with his main colleagues, which did not exceed 20 minutes, the tension increased between the Portuguese national team star Cristiano Ronaldo and his colleagues, against the background of the inclusion of his manager, Ricky Regoff, in their World Cup camp.
Where his colleagues accused him of including his business manager, Regoff, within the team, who considered himself Leonardo’s personal manager after the latter appointed him as his manager in 2018, and he began to interfere in what he did not concern and constitute an “excessive influence” on the players, but rather began sharing the spaces allocated to them, and they do not understand The reason for joining so far, they said.
This came at a time when Portuguese players were not allowed to take their guests to the camp designated for the Portuguese national team in the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
This extends the relationship between Regoff and Ronaldo since 2003, when Regoff, who was working as a marketing director for Nike, persuaded him to extend his promotional contract with the famous sportswear and shoes company.
And then the relationship began to consolidate and take a new curve between the two parties, so that Regoff appeared with Ronaldo at many dinner parties, and Ronaldo accompanied him on all luxurious holidays, but rather as an official welcome guest at all of Ronaldo’s award ceremonies.
Rather, things got out of control when the two were seen embracing each other, and lying on the green carpet of joy, after Portugal’s victory over France in the Euro 2016 championship, and what matters is Ronaldo’s threat to pack his bags and leave the Portugal camp in the World Cup Qatar 2022, unless he allows For his friend and agent, Rygov, to join the camp. According to sources