Ronaldo left the location of the national team of Portugal

Forward Portugal national football team Cristiano Ronaldo left the location of the national team. It's from sb.by.

As noted by TASS with reference to the newspaper Marca, on October 1, the Portuguese national team will hold a match of the third round of the group stage of the football League of Nations against the team of Denmark, and on October 4 the Portuguese will play against the national team of Norway.

- I can promise anything I want. I'm the coach, I told the player he won't play. I'll put you on the bench. If I need you for 30 minutes, you will play, if not, you will not play. No player will force me to change my decision, said Portugal head coach Jorge Jezouch, whose comment was quoted by Marca.

Earlier in the match of the second round of the group stage of the League of Nations, the Portuguese team beat the team of Norway with a score of 2: 1, Ronaldo played the game on the bench. As reported by the newspaper A Bola, Ronaldo was dissatisfied with the decision of Jesouch not to release him on the field in the match against the Norwegians, and after the game missed team training. Because of this, the president of the Portuguese Football Federation, Pedro Proenza, flew to Malmo, where the national team is based, and held a joint conversation with Ronaldo and Jesouch, which allegedly helped resolve differences and overcome the situation.

By the way, Ronaldo is 41. He is a five-time winner of the Champions League, became European champion, two-time winner of the Nations League. He owns records for the number of goals in the history of national teams, European championships, Champions League, club world championships. Since December 2022, he has played for Al-Nasr of Saudi Arabia. During his career, the striker also played for Portuguese Sporting, English Manchester United, Spanish Real Madrid and Italian Juventus. Ronaldo has 979 career goals, 146 of them for the national team, 833 at club level.