Cristiano Ronaldo Opens Up On Real Reason “Why I Left Real Madrid”

The five-time Ballon d’Or winner and former Real Madrid legend Cristiano Ronaldo has finally opened up on reason he decided to leave Real Madrid for Italian clubside Juventus.

Ronaldo said he observed the Spanish club’s president, Florentino Perez, no longer saw him as “indispensable” player.”

in an interview with France Football magazine, Ronaldo said: “I felt within the club, especially from the president, that I was no longer considered in the same way as I was at the beginning.”

“For the first four or five years, I felt like Cristiano Ronaldo less so after.”

“The president looked at me in a way that suggested I was no longer indispensable, if you know what I mean. That is what made me think about leaving.”

The 33-year-old Portugal captain signed for Juventus in a deal worth 100 million-euro ($115 million) in July, ending a glorious nine-year relationship with Real Madrid.

His last game for Real Madrid was against Liverpool in Champions League final for a third consecutive Champions League success in May.

But in the wake of that game, Zinedine Zidane departed as head coach of Real Madrid, something Ronaldo admits confirmed to him that it might be time for him to move on.

“My decision to leave was not based on him going. That said, it was one of the little details that confirmed to me what I had been thinking about the situation at the club,” Ronaldo added.

While Ronaldo continues to enjoy great success on the pitch, scoring goals for his new club, Juventus, he remains embroiled in off-pitch saga after being accused of rape in the United States.

A former American model and a school teacher, Kathryn Mayorga, 34, of Las Vegas, accused Cristiano Ronaldo in a 32-page complaint filed with a district court in Nevada, of raping her in June 2009, just before he joined Real Madrid from Manchester United.

“Of course this matter interferes with my life. I have a partner, four children, an ageing mother, sisters, a brother, a family with whom I am very close,” he told the magazine.

“That is without talking about my reputation, that of an exemplary person.”

“Imagine what that is like to have someone say you are a rapist, or that you have this or that.

“I know who I am and what I did. The truth will come out. And the people who criticise me and who expose my life today, who make a song and dance about it, these people will see.”