Cristiano Ronaldo. Portugal loses thousands of followers on Instagram

The page of the Portuguese Football Federation on Instagram – which until Wednesday, September 30, had been gaining followers – lost more than 83,000 followers on the day that Cristiano Ronaldo announced the decision to abandon the stage of the selection.

The trend continued on Thursday, October 1, in which it is already possible to see that the page of the organization that manages Portuguese football lost more than 187 thousand followers. Currently, the page of the Portuguese Football Federation on Instagram has a total of 24.7 million followers.

In the case of Cristiano Ronaldo, the descent in the last two days was less pronounced – even if the tendency to lose followers has already occurred since September 14.

Regarding Ronaldo's page, Social Blade still has no data on this Thursday, but on Wednesday it can be seen that the player's page lost more than 63,000 followers. Still, Cristiano Ronaldo remains the most Instagram followers page with a total of 679 million followers.

What happened to Cristiano Ronaldo?

A exit of Cristiano Ronaldo the stage of national selection took place after the player was left in the bank in the game between Portugal and Norway. Despite the victory of the Portuguese team, the post-game was marked by the images of the captain of the team heading for the locker room just after the final whistle – without joining the colleagues.

Among critics of supporters and commentators and rumors that Ronaldo's dissatisfaction with the choice of Jorge Jesus was apparent, the Portuguese player trained the group in the days following the game against Norway. This Tuesday, the 29th, coach and player talked and everything seemed to have returned to normal.

However, on Wednesday, at the press conference for the game between Denmark and Portugal on Thursday, Jorge Jesus' words on the case will not have pleased Ronaldo who, shortly after the end of the conference, abandoned the internship and traveled by plane to Madrid.