Portugal’s 2-1 win over Norway<\/a> in Olso on Sunday and did not join his team-mates in going over to the visiting fans at the final whistle.<\/p>\nInstead, the former Real Madrid and Manchester United player headed to the changing rooms – prompting reports he was unhappy with the manager.<\/p>\n
Speaking to media before Portugal’s Nations League match against Denmark on Thursday, Jesus said: “There was no incident whatsoever.<\/p>\n
“Any player – and I was a player myself – when you spend 20 or 30 minutes warming up and then don’t get on, no-one is happy about that.”<\/p>\n
Jesus said he had told Ronaldo before the match he would not be starting, but might be brought on later in the game.<\/p>\n
“Afterwards, as coach, I decided not to bring him on. It’s nothing to make a fuss about,” he added.<\/p>\n
Former Benfica manager Jesus also dismissed suggestions Ronaldo had refused to train on Tuesday, saying the 41-year-old instead had to do individual exercises for “mobility” and “strengthening” but would train as normal on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
However, Ronaldo did not join his team-mates on the pitch in Denmark with Portuguese media sharing a video of him leaving Parken stadium alongside two members of the backroom staff.<\/p>\n
And the player later took to Instagram to announce his departure.<\/p>\n
“After the press conference of the national team and following a conversation with the president of the Portuguese Football Federation, I have decided to leave the national team training camp,” he wrote.<\/p>\n
“In time, I will tell all the Portuguese the truth about the reasons that motivated me to leave.”<\/p>\n
He added he wished his team-mates good luck in their forthcoming games.<\/p>\n
Goncalo Ramos scored the winner against Norway and Jesus had said the AC Milan striker would again be preferred to Ronaldo against Denmark.<\/p>\n
“If I need [Ronaldo], he’ll come on. If I don’t need him, he won’t.”<\/p>\n
The Portuguese Football Federation later confirmed Ronaldo’s departure in a statement which added: “Preparation for the two matches against Denmark and Norway continue as planned with the 24 remaining squad members.<\/p>\n
“The entire delegation remains totally focussed on the national team’s next fixtures and on achieving the established objectives.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo says he has left Portugal’s international camp and will explain the reasons why “in time”. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-788160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}