Open war between Cristiano Ronaldo and the Portugal national team coach

BarcelonaCristiano Ronaldo has left Portugal's training camp in Denmark, according to several Portuguese media outlets and confirmed by the Federation. The 41-year-old forward and living legend of Portugal leaves following the words of manager Jorge Jesus regarding his absence in the matches against Norway, in which he did not play a single minute, and after stating that he would not play against Denmark this Thursday either, both duels corresponding to the UEFA Nations League. Thus, Ronaldo, angry as a hornet, has left his national team's training camp when he still has two more matches left to play: the aforementioned one against the Danes and, again, against Norway on Sunday. The player has published a message on social media stating that he will explain his version of the story in due time, confirming that he is leaving after Jorge Jesus's words and wishing his teammates luck.

The match against the Scandinavian national team on Sunday is the trigger for all of this. On Sunday, Ronaldo watched from the bench as Jesus opted for Joao Félix and Gonçalo Ramos as the starting strikers. Both were the authors of the goals for the Portuguese national team, which won 1-2 in Oslo. But Ronaldo, whom the Portuguese coach had made warm up in the second half, was overcome by anger and, when the final whistle blew, he headed straight for the dressing room. On Monday, the day after the duel against Erling Haaland's Norway, Ronaldo did not train with the rest of the substitutes as he should have. Neither on Tuesday. And this Wednesday, the final bombshell: he did not go out to train because the Portuguese icon has decided to leave the training camp.

Jesus, replacement for the Catalan Robert Martínez on the bench and who had already managed the forward at Al-Nassr, had wanted to diffuse the controversy before it transpired that Ronaldo would leave. "Yesterday he did not refuse to train. He did gym work. Conceição did not train due to injury, nor did Joao Félix, because we were trying to relieve fatigue," he said, and he guaranteed that Ronaldo would train this Wednesday, but that did not happen and the scandal erupted. "I told him he would not play these two matches, but during the match I thought that maybe I would need him and that he would go out to warm up. Afterwards, however, I did not play him. No player, when he is warming up for twenty or thirty minutes and finally does not enter the field, is happy. And even less so him," Jesus had dismissed shortly before the Portuguese packed his bags.