Cristiano Ronaldo is free to play in Portugal’s World Cup opener subsequent summer time after being banned for only one match, regardless of his pink card for a violent elbow of their defeat by Eire.
Ronaldo, 40, was dismissed for elbowing Dara O’Shea on the hour mark of his aspect’s shock 2-0 defeat in Dublin earlier this month.
The Portugal star had been going through a possible three-match ban for violent conduct, which might have dominated him out of the beginning of the World Cup.
However FIFA have suspended the second and third matches of the ban
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