cristiano ronaldo is in no danger of losing the portugal captaincy over his outburst at the end of saturdays world cup qualifier against serbia coach fernando santos saidronaldo stormed off the pitch seconds before the final whistle and got booked for dissent after he was denied a stoppagetime goal in saturdays 22 drawthe 36yearold was left fuming when his effort was cleared by serbia defender stefan mitrovic after it had crossed the line with no video assistant referee var in place dutch referee danny makkelie waved play on and a livid ronaldo threw away the captains armband as he headed towards the tunnelyes he will keep the armband forever said santos cristiano is a national exampleif he had offended the manager his team mates or the federation in a thoughtless attitude then we would have to address the situation but nothing like that happenedit was a moment of huge frustration and we are talking about a player who is unbeatable when it comes to his eagerness to winnobody will say now that his reaction was beautiful but theres no point to discuss if cristiano should remain the captain thats something i want to be very clear aboutreferee makkelie told portuguese newspaper a bola on monday that he had apologised to santos and the rest of the team for the mistakeuefa said ronaldos goal would have stood if the soccer governing bodies of serbia and portugal had both agreed before the game to use goalline technology