Cristiano crisis? What crisis?

His teammates on Portugal's national team would rather talk about anyone except superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.

On the day Ronaldo was summoned to appear before a Spanish judge on accusations of tax fraud, defender Pepe and coach Fernando Santos tried to pretend the story simply didn't exist.

Pepe waxed lyrical about a coach he'd worked with briefly 14 years ago. Santos nattered about friendly phone calls with a player from his Porto days.