Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo (41) left the national team’s camp ahead of the October 1 match against Denmark and posted a statement on social media criticizing head coach Jorge Jesus. He started in September’s match against Wales but didn’t play at all in the following game against Norway, and the reported decision to start Gonçalo Ramos against Denmark is said to have been the final trigger for his departure. Ronaldo also wrote that he would “eventually tell the people the truth.” On 5ch, opinion split between posters calling the coaching staff’s handling “immature” and those questioning Ronaldo’s attitude for still expecting special treatment at 41, with the debate also drawing comparisons to other aging players like Japan’s “King Kazu” (Kazuyoshi Miura, famous for playing pro soccer into his late 50s).
Cristiano Ronaldo, who abruptly left the Portugal national team camp, updated his social media on October 6 local time with a scathing attack on head coach Jorge Jesus.
The 41-year-old superstar started in the September 24 UEFA Nations League match against Wales, but didn’t see the pitch at all in the September 27 match against Norway.
Then, at the pre-match press conference ahead of the October 1 game against Denmark, coach Jorge Jesus confirmed that Gonçalo Ramos would start — and Ronaldo decided to leave the camp early. On Instagram, he wrote: “I will tell the Portuguese people the truth eventually.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
Isn't he more like [Yasuhito] Endo than Kazu, though?
He's done more than enough already — go be a manager at this point.
Never grow up.
You kind of want the coach to be the one saying this, lol.
Back in his Man United days he used to blow right past defenders with his dribbling.
Spoken like a bandwagon fan. He actually broke onto the scene because of his dribbling in the first place.
Somebody just needs to tell him straight that he's not needed anymore.
No player should be bigger than the team.
Well, there are plenty of cases where a coach clashes with a player and ends up the one getting sacked, so that's not always true.
Honestly, it's better if he's not around anymore either.
Footage of the Portugal squad training after Ronaldo left camp.
They look weirdly upbeat and like they're having a blast, which lines up with how well the team's been playing lately — easy to picture Ronaldo having been poison for the locker room and on the pitch.
Wait, is Vitinha the one getting bullied there? Yeah, [Bernardo] Silva and Gonçalo [Ramos] really do look like they're enjoying themselves.
Fine, blow up if you want.
But don't blow up and go home — that's just immature.
Humans and an AI separately picked the top 5 players of the 21st century for each continent — here are the results:
Maybe the human picks are just too generous — feel bad for [Shinji] Kagawa and [Mark] Viduka missing out — but no continent's list really swings that wildly either way.
CONCACAF (North/Central America) still feels like a work in progress — a lineup you can't really pass judgment on yet.
Zidane, the "chubby" Ronaldo (the original Brazilian Ronaldo, nicknamed for his build), Nakata, Daei — wasn't the 20th century really the peak?
Didn't he say back in June that this would be his "last World Cup"?
Just when we thought we'd finally gotten rid of him, he's still here?
"Rōgai" means a harmful old-timer holding things back. By any reasonable measure, Jesus is a competent coach.
Does he really have to make — and then keep — a promise about that every single time?
Exactly — since that's always going to be the case, the coach just shouldn't have made that promise in the first place.
Who do you think you are, Kazu?
Kazu would never pull something this childish. Even when he's not playing, he fully commits to the "panda" role (quietly accepting mascot/bench duty without complaint).
Background and Key Points of the Debate
The reported trigger for the walkout was a reversal in his playing time: after starting against Wales on September 24, Ronaldo got no minutes at all against Norway on the 27th, and then the coaching staff confirmed young forward Gonçalo Ramos would start against Denmark on October 1. Ronaldo’s statement included the line “this makes twice now,” hinting at an earlier dispute over similar selection decisions — though the thread never gets into the specifics of that history. Where the thread split was over how a 41-year-old should be treated this late in his career: one side focused on the coach going back on his word, the other called Ronaldo’s decision to leave camp without rejoining the squad immature. Worth noting, and not obvious from the quoted article alone, is that Ronaldo reportedly said back in June that this would be his “last World Cup” — meaning his own retirement plans are part of the backdrop to this whole episode.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports Breaking News+) thread “[Soccer] “The Coach Broke His Promise” — Ronaldo’s Furious Statement After Abruptly Leaving Camp, Blasts Portugal Manager: “This Makes Twice Now”.”
