Brazil's Globoesporte used the 'face' angle as headline:
"Emburrado, Cristiano Ronaldo treina no Manchester United. Técnico dos Red Devils não tem pressa em colocar o atacante para jogar"
(Cristiano Ronaldo trains in ManUnited. Coach of the Red Devils is not in a hurry to make the forward play)
They went on:
"O atacante Cristiano Ronaldo voltou aos treinos no Manchester United com cara de poucos amigos. Emburrado, o português, que correu ao redor do gramado usando tênis, não esboçava um sorriso sequer. Para piorar a situação, o técnico dos Red Devils, Alex Feguson, disse que não há pressa alguma em colocar o ‘gajo’, que se recupera de uma cirurgia no tornozelo submetida no ultimo mes de julho, para jogar. "
English translation: Forward Cristiano Ronaldo returned to the training sessions at Manchester United with a face of someone who has too few friends.
The Portuguese, that ran around the soccer field in tennis shoes, wouldn't even smile. To worsen the situation, the coach of the Red Devils, Alex Ferguson, said that there was not any hirry to put him to play.
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Cristiano Ronaldo missed Portugal's 1st game since the Euro 2008 yesterday. The friendly Portugal 5- 0 Faroe Islands on August 20, 2008. His teammate Nani played ALL 90 minutes and scored the 5th goal.
CR7 started some light training on Friday, August 22, 2008. Under the watchful eye of Alex Ferguson and next to South Korean Park Ji-sung and Hargreaves, ‘gajo’, as he's referred to in Brazil, did some light training.
He is still recovering from surgery and will return to the soccer field in October.
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