{"id":776740,"date":"2026-07-03T02:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776740\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T02:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T02:32:14","slug":"fans-gifted-ronaldo-jersey-after-portugal-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/776740\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans gifted Ronaldo Jersey after Portugal win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0July 02, 2026 at 10:29PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0July 02, 2026 at 10:24PM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A lucky fan headed home Thursday night with a game-worn Cristiano Ronaldo jersey gifted to her right off the soccer superstar\u2019s back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a video posted by TSN, Ronaldo can be seen handing his jersey to a lucky fan after Portugal defeated Croatia 2-1 in the final World Cup match at Toronto Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After receiving the gift, one fan can be seen cheering and dancing with the rare memento.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ronaldo scored one of the goals in Thursday\u2019s match on a penalty kick. It was his first knockout stage goal in the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ronaldo has stated publicly that this would be his last time participating in a FIFA World Cup tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Portugal will be moving on to the round of 16 and will face Spain in Dallas on July 6.<\/p>\n<p>Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0July 02, 2026 at 10:29PM EDT Published:\u00a0July 02, 2026 at 10:24PM EDT A lucky fan headed home Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-776740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}