• Inter Milan's Italian midfielder Nicolo Barella vies with Cristiano Ronaldo in the last game for the Serie A leaders on March 8 before the lockdown. Juve won 2-0. AFP
    Inter Milan's Italian midfielder Nicolo Barella vies with Cristiano Ronaldo in the last game for the Serie A leaders on March 8 before the lockdown. Juve won 2-0. AFP
  • Juventus' Paulo Dybala celebrates scoring their second goal. Reuters
    Juventus' Paulo Dybala celebrates scoring their second goal. Reuters
  • Empty stands during the Italian Serie A match between Juventus and Inter Milan at the Allianz Stadium in Turin. EPA
    Empty stands during the Italian Serie A match between Juventus and Inter Milan at the Allianz Stadium in Turin. EPA
  • The stands are thinly populated as Juventus play Inter. LaPresse via AP
    The stands are thinly populated as Juventus play Inter. LaPresse via AP
  • Paulo Dybala scores. Getty Images
    Paulo Dybala scores. Getty Images
  • Inter Milan's Christian Eriksen in action. Reuters
    Inter Milan's Christian Eriksen in action. Reuters
  • Juventus' Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo is helped by Inter Milan's Italian forward Antonio Candreva. AFP
    Juventus' Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo is helped by Inter Milan's Italian forward Antonio Candreva. AFP
  • Juventus' Paulo Dybala celebrates scoring. EPA
    Juventus' Paulo Dybala celebrates scoring. EPA
  • Empty stands during the Serie A match between Juventus and Inter. EPA
    Empty stands during the Serie A match between Juventus and Inter. EPA
  • Juventus players celebrate their win. EPA
    Juventus players celebrate their win. EPA
  • Juventus' Cristiano Ronaldo in action against Inter. EPA
    Juventus' Cristiano Ronaldo in action against Inter. EPA

Football

Juventus star Cristiano Ronaldo enters 14-day quarantine after returning to Turin - reports

Ronaldo, 35, and his family landed in Turin Airport just after 10.20pm local time, according to media reports in Italy

The National

May 05, 2020

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Juventus and Portugal star Cristiano Ronaldo returned to Italy on Monday after nearly two months in coronavirus lockdown at his home in Portugal.

Ronaldo, 35, and his family landed in Turin Airport just after 10.20pm local time (12.20am UAE), according to media reports in Italy.

The five-time Ballon d'Or winner arrived by private jet from the Portuguese island of Madeira and will spend two weeks in quarantine.

Ronaldo played Juve's last Serie A game, a 2-0 win over Inter Milan behind closed doors at the Allianz Stadium on March 8, before the Italian football season was suspended amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Italy has been one of the worst-affected countries by the outbreak, with more than 211,000 total cases and over 29,000 deaths, while more than 82,000 people have so far made full recoveries, according to the latest figures.

Ronaldo returned to Madeira after the Inter Milan match to be close to his mother Dolores who had suffered a stroke.

Juventus have recalled their 10 overseas players as Serie A clubs were given the green light to return to individual training on Monday.

The Italian interior ministry's go-ahead for players to return to club training facilities two weeks ahead of schedule has offered fans hope that the 2019-20 season might yet be salvaged.

Juventus are leading Serie A, one point ahead of Lazio, as they target a ninth consecutive Scudetto.

The club has not yet given an official date for a return to training. Juventus began carrying out tests on their players at the club's medical centre in Turin on Monday.

The first to arrive were Federico Bernardeschi, Juan Cuadrado, Carlo Pinsoglio, Leonardo Bonucci and Aaron Ramsey, all wearing face masks.

Juventus are also waiting the return to Turin of Dutch centre-back Matthijs de Ligt and midfielder Blaise Matuidi, who returned to France after recovering from the virus.

Gonzalo Higuain remains in Argentina where he returned to be with his sick mother, while Paulo Dybala - one of the first high-profile footballers to contract the virus - was last week still testing positive, six weeks after the initial positive test.

MATCH INFO

Who: UAE v USA
What: first T20 international
When: Friday, 2pm
Where: ICC Academy in Dubai

Navdeep Suri, India's Ambassador to the UAE

There has been a longstanding need from the Indian community to have a religious premises where they can practise their beliefs. Currently there is a very, very small temple in Bur Dubai and the community has outgrown this. So this will be a major temple and open to all denominations and a place should reflect India’s diversity.

It fits so well into the UAE’s own commitment to tolerance and pluralism and coming in the year of tolerance gives it that extra dimension.

What we will see on April 20 is the foundation ceremony and we expect a pretty broad cross section of the Indian community to be present, both from the UAE and abroad. The Hindu group that is building the temple will have their holiest leader attending – and we expect very senior representation from the leadership of the UAE.

When the designs were taken to the leadership, there were two clear options. There was a New Jersey model with a rectangular structure with the temple recessed inside so it was not too visible from the outside and another was the Neasden temple in London with the spires in its classical shape. And they said: look we said we wanted a temple so it should look like a temple. So this should be a classical style temple in all its glory.

It is beautifully located - 30 minutes outside of Abu Dhabi and barely 45 minutes to Dubai so it serves the needs of both communities.

This is going to be the big temple where I expect people to come from across the country at major festivals and occasions.

It is hugely important – it will take a couple of years to complete given the scale. It is going to be remarkable and will contribute something not just to the landscape in terms of visual architecture but also to the ethos. Here will be a real representation of UAE’s pluralism.

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