{"id":782745,"date":"2026-07-05T23:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T23:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782745\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T23:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T23:51:10","slug":"its-my-last-one-2026-fifa-world-cup-to-be-final-for-portugals-cristiano-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/782745\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s my last one\u2019 2026 FIFA World Cup to be final for Portugal\u2019s Cristiano Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be the final one in the storied career of Portugal forward Cristiano Ronaldo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cYes, it\u2019s my last one. Let\u2019s go and enjoy it.\u201d Ronaldo said in a press conference on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ronaldo has bagged three goals so far this tournament, scoring twice in a group stage dismantling of Uzbekistan while finding the back of the net from the penalty spot in the team\u2019s Round of 32 win against Croatia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ronaldo also became the first player ever to score in six different World Cup campaigns. He is sitting on 11 goals at the tournament for his storied career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Thursday, Portugal narrowly survived Croatia 2-1 in Toronto in one of the best games of the tournament thus far. The Portuguese trailed 1-0 in the second half, but a goal by Ronaldo on a penalty kick &#8211; his first ever in the World Cup knockout stage &#8211; tied the game, and a picture-perfect header from Goncalo Ramos in the fourth minute of stoppage time gave Portugal the win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Portugal drew twice and picked up one win during the preliminary round, finishing second in Group K behind Colombia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ronaldo and his side will now play Spain in the Round of 16 in what could be the 41-year-old\u2019s final World Cup game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026 FIFA World Cup will be the final one in the storied career of Portugal forward Cristiano&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[203296,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-782745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-fifa-world-cup-sports-soccer-fifa-world-cup","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782745","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=782745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}