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🚨🚨💣💣 BREAKING: CRISTIANO RONALDO RELEASES A STATEMENT EXPLAINING WHAT HAPPENED WITH PORTUGAL. 🇵🇹
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“As I had promised, I decided to recount myself, and in a direct manner, the circumstances surrounding the last gathering of the national team.
After the 2026 World Cup, I prepared a letter intended for the Portuguese people, which I still keep, with the words I wish to address to them when I leave our team for good.
At the end of the competition, right from the return flight from the United States, the president of the Federation asked me, insistently, to reconsider my decision to leave, because the FPF wanted me to continue.
He then asked me my opinion on the current coach, whom he was considering appointing, among other names he didn’t reveal to me.
I responded to the president of the Federation that, in my view, it would be the right choice.
That’s why, on the day the current coach was presented, I was genuinely happy about this appointment. It was the right choice, as the results confirm.
A few days later, the new coach contacted me for the first time, telling me that he wanted to meet me in person. I accepted, and we scheduled the meeting for the end of my vacation.
We met at the Cidade do Futebol, where my club was holding its training camp.
That day, the coach told me that he was counting on me and that my presence was fundamental to his project. He immediately presented me with a program for my participation. He told me that I would play the first and last match and that, to manage physical efforts, he would systematically make three to four substitutions per match.
At that moment, he mentioned the possibility that I wouldn’t travel with the team to Norway and Denmark. He suggested that I play the first match, stay in Portugal, then rejoin the group before the match at the Dragão.
I immediately refused this proposal. It seemed obvious to me that I couldn’t accept it. It wasn’t because I wouldn’t play the away matches that I would stop fulfilling my role as captain. This privilege of staying in Portugal wouldn’t have been a good example.
The coach ultimately shared my analysis.
Simão Coutinho, Al-Nassr’s sporting director, attended this conversation. He is the person under whose responsibility the current coach worked throughout the past season, and one of the people responsible for his recruitment by the club in 2025.
The day before the start of the gathering, the coach came to my home in Lisbon for another discussion, at his request. The conversation was calm, and all the principles agreed upon in August were maintained.
I played in the match at Alvalade and, despite being substituted, I didn’t raise any issues. I myself put the armband on Bruno Fernandes’s arm, far from imagining that I might be living my last moments as a player and captain of the national team. What mattered to me that day was our victory. Winning is always enjoyable; in Portugal and for my country, it’s even better.
At lunchtime on the day of the match in Norway, one of the coach’s assistants came to the table where the group was eating and informed me that the coach wanted to speak to me. To my great surprise, he asked me if I was fit to play thirty minutes. I was totally focused on my physical recovery, integrated into the group as always, and I thought I wouldn’t play that day. That didn’t bother me at all.
This request was outside my physical recovery and training program — since I wasn’t supposed to play again until the 4th, at the Dragão — but I obviously said yes. He then told me to be ready, because I would play thirty minutes.
The rest, everyone knows it. I warmed up from halftime onward, I watched the minutes tick by, and I wasn’t called on.
The coach hadn’t kept his word to me.
PART 2 BELOW….⤵️⤵️🚨🚨
🚨🚨 Kylian Mbappé: “Why did I NOT wear the Ceuta shirt? Let me EXPLAIN it properly.
It was the club’s decision. The players were supposed to wear it.
The first thing I want to say is that I stand in complete SOLIDARITY with Ceuta and with all the victims. Because before being a footballer, I’m a human being but I also wanted to make a GESTURE and spare a thought for all the immigrants who have lost their lives and who are also living in very difficult conditions.
It wasn’t an easy position to be in. It was difficult, because people might think that I’m against the people of Ceuta, but no, absolutely not. I have nothing against them and they have 100% of my support and thoughts.
But I also wanted to spare a thought for everyone who is suffering, because at the end of the day, I’m human and I don’t want to prioritize one person’s suffering over another.
There are people suffering, and it makes me very sad to see that in the world. I’m someone who wants the best for the world we live in.
I want to send a message of positivity and peace, and I hope this situation is resolved quickly.”
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