Mesut Ozil has come to the defence of his former Real Madrid teammate Cristiano Ronaldo who has received some negative mentions in the press lately, IgbereTV reports
The Portugal captain went to the World Cup after a fallout with Manchester United which resulted in a mutual termination of his contract with the club.
Just when the United controversy was almost forgotten, Ronaldo was reported by some section of the press to have threatened to quit the national team camp after Coach Fernando Santos benched him in the 6-1 second-round drubbing of Switzerland, a claim the Portuguese federation has since debunked