🚨🇵🇹 OFFICIAL! CRISTIANO RONALDO STATEMENT: “This is the truth on what has happened with Jorge Jesus”.
As I promised, I decided to recount, in the first person and directly, the circumstances surrounding the last training camp of the National Team.
After the 2026 World Cup I prepared a letter to the Portuguese people, which I still keep, with the words I want to address to them when I leave our team for good.
At the end of the competition, already on the flight back from the United States, the President of the Federation asked and insisted that I reconsider the decision to leave, because the FPF wanted me to continue.
Right afterwards he asked me for my opinion on the name of the current head coach, which he was considering alongside other names he did not reveal to me.
I told the President of the Federation that, in my opinion, it would be the right choice.
That is why, on the day the current head coach was presented, I was genuinely happy with the choice. It was the right option, as the results are confirming.
A few days later I received a first contact from the new national team coach saying he would like to meet me in person. I said yes and we scheduled it for the end of my holidays.
We met at the Cidade do Futebol, where my club was holding its pre-season training camp.
That day the coach told me he was counting on me and that my presence was fundamental to his project. He presented me, right there, with a plan for my participation. He told me I would play the first match and the last one, and that for reasons of physical management he would always make three to four changes per match.
At that point he raised the possibility of me not travelling with the national team to Norway and Denmark. He proposed that I play the first match and stay in Portugal, then rejoin before the match at the Dragão.
I refused this proposal immediately. It seemed obvious to me that I could not accept it. It was not because I would not play the matches abroad that I would stop captaining our team. That privilege of staying in Portugal would not be a good example.
The coach ended up agreeing with my analysis.
This conversation was attended by Simão Coutinho, sporting director of Al Nassr, the person to whom the current coach reported throughout last season and one of those responsible for his signing by the club in 2025.
On the eve of the start of the camp the coach came to my house in Lisbon, at his request, for another conversation with me. The conversation was calm and all the principles agreed in August were maintained.
I played the match at Alvalade and, although substituted, I made no problem of it. I put the armband on Bruno Fernandes myself, far from imagining that I might be taking my last steps as a player and captain of the National Team. What mattered to me that day was our victory. Winning is always good; in Portugal and for my country, even better.
At lunchtime on the day of the match in Norway, an assistant to the coach came to the table where the group was having lunch and informed me that the coach wanted to speak to me.
To my absolute surprise, the coach asked me if I was fit to play 30 minutes. I was fully focused on my physical recovery, integrated with my teammates as always, and thinking that I would not play that day. Without any problem.
This request was something outside my physical recovery and training plan — because I was only going to play on the 4th at the Dragão — but of course I said yes. He replied that I should then be ready because I would play 30 minutes.
The rest everyone knows. I warmed up from half-time, watched the minutes go by, and was not called.
The coach had broken his word to me.
Cristiano Ronaldo in 2011 after Ricardo Carvalho left the Portugal camp because he wasn’t starting:
"No one has a guaranteed place. The coach decides"
He’s now done the same thing ����😂
@Rashidi91 E dey pain me when you respect these guys but still talk shit about Jay jay.
You’re here hailing Gaucho, yet the same Gaucho dey always show Jay Jay respect. So why can’t you respect Jay jay when the same guys you rate so highly do?
@Rashidi91@FansTribeHQ@toxalways@mekelecfc@iamogswagg Arteta was part of the fraud era at City too, bro. 😂
And na Pep114 course your current coach study. 😭😂 Your coach na product of a fraud.
And why nobody dey talk about Pellegrini or Mancini? Na only two years of Pep’s City era this case cover ooo. 😂
His 2025/26 Bundesliga numbers
28 starts
12 goals
8 assists
20 G/A
197 dribble attempts
117 successful dribbles — 1st in the Bundesliga
59% dribble success
4.31 successful dribbles per 90 — also 1st
Do you know how hard it is to complete 117 dribbles in 197 attempts?
Do you know he had more completed dribbles % than both Olise & Yamal ?
@Rashidi91 Credible evidence? Just look at Yan’s face. Man is probably older than me and you. 😭😂🤣
Look at all the players I mentioned and then look at Yan. 😭😂
@Rashidi91 You’ve been complaining about City cheating since dem find dem guilty, but when your brother commit age fraud, you’re suddenly okay with it, abi?
So you wan tell me say Olise, Saka, Adeyemi, Vini and Mbappe old pass this man, while him and Yamal are the same age?
120m Taye Taiwo
@Rashidi91@BukayoSaka87 And Swagg wey dey pity Saka because of injury go dey condemn Yamal’s World Cup campaign, even though he played through injury throughout the group stage. 😂
I dey always tell you say na hate dey make @iamogswagg struggle to talk truth about Barça players.
Michael Olise is better than Lamine Yamal right now.
The way Olise has been performing for Bayern and France, this debate is no longer as crazy as people make it sound. Yamal has the hype, but Olise is showing consistency, end product and big-game quality.
If you disagree, explain what Yamal is doing better than Olise right now. 👀
Bro, this idiot probably never even started watching football when Ronaldo won the Ballon d’Or with 7 league goals. 😂😭
When Don Andrés was scoring for Spain in the World Cup final, where was Lampard? Yeah, he was busy scoring 20+ goals against Leeds and QPR. 😂
@McFlybowy R9 won with just 9 goals and he's a striker.Yamal is the best dribbler and playmaker wtf league goals have to do with that😂.
Iniesta won POTM over Messi and Xavi in Finals. If he did that for Arsenal he would have won Ballon dor especially when he score the goal to win worldcup
Lamine Yamal Vs Olise. Individual achievement since last season.
- Most goals scored - Olise
- Most assists - Oliss
- UCL Team of the tournament - Olise included, No Yamal.
- World cup TOTT - Olise included, No Yamal.
Both won best players in their league.
- Olise tops UCL assists
- Oliss tops World Cup assists
- Olise tops Bundesliga top assists
- Yamal only tops La liga assist.
- Yamal was the best dribbler in Europe.
So now, let me know the reason why Lamine Yamal should win the ballon d’Or over Oliss if not PR?