{"id":262562,"date":"2025-11-04T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/262562\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:51:08","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-admits-he-plans-to-retire-soon-opens-up-on-future-after-football-as-hopes-of-man-utd-return-are-dashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/262562\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo admits he plans to retire &#8216;soon&#8217; &#038; opens up on future after football as hopes of Man Utd return are dashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be lots of calls for Ronaldo to stay in football when he eventually does hang up his boots, with a wealth of expertise and experience to share. But coaching, management or executive roles within the sport don\u2019t appear to appeal to the five-time Ballon d&#8217;Or winner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing will compare to the adrenaline we have for football to score a goal,&#8221; Ronaldo explained, revealing that retiring from football will finally give him the time to pursue other things.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I have other passions. [When I retire] I&#8217;m going to have more time for me, have more time for my family, to raise my kids. I want to be more a family person, more present. Also, to have my own hobbies. I like to see UFC, the fights. I like padel. I like and I want to learn more about my companies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll never be a [full-time] YouTuber, of course, but I want to be there. I&#8217;m going to spend more time on that to learn. I think I&#8217;m going to do funny things and things I&#8217;m not used to doing before. Because I live football 24 hours [each day] to do the right things and perform.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There will be lots of calls for Ronaldo to stay in football when he eventually does hang up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[115843,64,63,115844,596,1525,5248,85],"class_list":["post-262562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-al-nassr-fc","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-c-ronaldo","tag-football","tag-manchester-united","tag-saudi-pro-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}