“Christian Ronaldo? Realizing that there is much agitation, I just wish...”

Technician Rui Jorge praises Cristiano Ronaldo and expects him to finish his career in the Portuguese team with dignity, remembering the young player he met at Sporting.

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17/10/2026
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Lusa

Cristiano Ronaldo

Rui Jorge hopes that Cristiano Ronaldo will be able to finish in the best way in the Portuguese football team, reminding the boy he met at the beginning of his career in Sporting and at the service of the ‘quinas’ team.

Currently training Azerbaijan's sub-20 team, Rui Jorge says that he did not follow the polemic departure from the Portuguese team's internship before the meeting with Denmark, the League of Nations, and that he only knows "over" by messages he received from some people.

“ The only thing I can say is about the person, about the kid. Because when I stopped being part of my proximity, I was a young player. In 2004, he was a young player. He appeared at Sporting as a young player, already I was a player with six years of Sporting, with several years of selection and many years of I League. And it is this kid, that will, that passion for the game that I keep having my great memories ", took over.

After these early times alongside Ronaldo, with whom he shared the locker room in Euro2004, Rui Jorge considers that the current advance of Al-Nassr has reached a great level and is “the best Portuguese of all time, this is undeniable, of the best in the world of all time”.

“That’s all I like to say. Realizing that there is a lot of agitation around this, just wishing that, when the situation ends at the level of selection, it is in a way that effectively a name as it deserves ", said.

On 30 September, Ronaldo left the stage of the Portuguese national team, which was preparing the A4 League of Nations games against Denmark and Norway, and justified his attitude with a lack of confidence on the part of the selector, Jorge Jesus.

In a statement, the 41-year-old Madeiran detailed the backstage of his departure from the selection and accused the selector of having failed to speak on two occasions.

Sporting's former forward, Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus won the home win for 1-0 in front of Wales, on the first day of the League of Nations Group A4 on 24 September, having been unused alternate in triumph in the visit to Norway (2-1), three days later.

After this meeting in Oslo, he left the apparently unsatisfied lawn, without joining the selectors in thanking the Portuguese followers.

Following Jesus' press conference forecasting the game with Denmark on 30 September, Ronaldo even abandoned the stage of the ‘quinas’ team, traveling on his private jet to Madrid.

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