World Cup: Tech confirms Ronaldo didn’t score against Uruguay

This time for sure: Cristiano Ronaldo is not the author of the first goal of the Portuguese against Uruguay (2:0). In the 54th minute, CR7 jumped over Bruno Fernandez’s center shot and sent the ball towards goal. He then celebrated the occasion as if he had just scored his 9th World Cup goal, thus joining Eusebio as the Portuguese player with the most goals in the history of the competition, but above all surpassing Lionel Messi by one length. your favorite opponent.

FIFA credited him with the goal at first, before he was quickly returned to Bruno Fernandes. Ronaldo did not know this and left the field, replacing Ramos in 82nd place. It was from the side that he saw Bruno Fernandes score a 2-0 penalty in stoppage time. However, at the end of the match, Ronaldo seemed confident that he had touched the ball with his head.

“Who scored the first goal? I think it was a great match and the rest doesn’t count,” said his coach Fernando Santos, refusing to fuel any ego war between the two players at a press conference. For his part, Bruno Fernandes slipped on his side: “I celebrated this goal like it was Cristiano’s work, I really thought it belonged to him.”

On Tuesday morning, information from Spain showed that the Portuguese federation had submitted evidence to FIFA that Ronaldo was indeed the scorer of the first goal. Denial by the Portuguese side, which simply mentions the classic procedure to allow the FIFA technical commission to examine the file. At noon, adidas finally put an end to tensions in a press release: “During the match between Portugal and Uruguay, using the Connected Ball technology located in the official adidas Al Rihla ball, we can finally show that there was no contact with the ball of Cristiano Ronaldo on the first goal of the match.

The supplier adds: “The external force acting on the ball cannot be measured. The 500Hz IMU sensor inside the ball allows us to be very precise in our analysis.”