{"id":55851,"date":"2026-10-01T06:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=55851"},"modified":"2026-10-01T06:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T01:11:23","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-leaves-portugal-camp-ahead-of-denmark-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/cristiano-ronaldo-leaves-portugal-camp-ahead-of-denmark-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo leaves Portugal camp ahead of Denmark clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Agency, Oct 1:<\/strong> Cristiano Ronaldo has left Portugal\u2019s national team camp ahead of Thursday\u2019s Nations League clash against Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo started Portugal\u2019s opening match against Wales, playing 67 minutes in the team\u2019s 1\u20130 victory. However, he remained an unused substitute in Portugal\u2019s following 2\u20131 win over Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of tension between Ronaldo and head coach Jorge Jesus emerged following the Norway game. Before the match, Jesus had indicated that he planned to use the 41-year-old forward at some stage. However, during Wednesday\u2019s press conference, Jesus confirmed that he had already discussed Ronaldo\u2019s role during the international break and that the captain would not feature against Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo had trained separately from his teammates on Monday and Tuesday. Reports also suggested that Ronaldo, Jesus and Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) president Pedro Proen\u00e7a held a meeting to resolve the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo later announced his decision to leave the national team camp in a post on social media, saying the decision followed a conversation with the FPF president.<\/p>\n<p>He said he would reveal the reasons behind his departure to the Portuguese people \u201cin due course\u201d and wished Portugal and all of his teammates success in the upcoming matches.<\/p>\n<p>The departure means Ronaldo will miss Thursday\u2019s match against Denmark as well as Portugal\u2019s return fixture against Norway on October 4.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo is the leading scorer in men\u2019s international football, with 146 goals for Portugal, and is continuing his pursuit of the landmark of 1,000 career goals.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal currently lead Nations League Group A4 with six points from tw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, Oct 1: Cristiano Ronaldo has left Portugal\u2019s national team camp ahead of Thursday\u2019s Nations League clash against Denmark. Ronaldo started Portugal\u2019s opening match against Wales, playing 67 minutes in the team\u2019s 1\u20130 victory. However, he remained an unused substitute in Portugal\u2019s following 2\u20131 win over Norway. Reports of tension between Ronaldo and head coach [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-main-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55853,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55851\/revisions\/55853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}