{"id":244089,"date":"2025-11-04T21:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/244089\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T21:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:54:09","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-abandons-tradition-as-football-icon-reveals-proposal-details-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/244089\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo abandons tradition as football icon reveals proposal details for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cristiano Ronaldo has revealed details of his proposal to partner Georgina Rodriguez for the first time, admitting he did not make a traditional gesture of kneeling.<\/p>\n

The 40-year-old Real Madrid icon acknowledged his lack of preparation for the spontaneous moment that unfolded at 1am.<\/p>\n

The Portuguese striker confessed he’s “not a very romantic guy” in conventional terms, though he insisted he expresses romance in his own manner. <\/p>\n

The revelation marks the first occasion Ronaldo has publicly discussed the proposal details since the couple announced their engagement in August, following nine years together.<\/p>\n

The unexpected proposal occurred when Ronaldo’s daughters, Alana and Ava, discovered him holding the engagement ring at their home. <\/p>\n

“Daddy, you’re going to give the ring to mum and you’re going to ask her to get married,” the children said upon entering the room, despite the late hour. <\/p>\n

Their innocent intervention convinced the footballer to proceed immediately. <\/p>\n

“Wow, this is the right moment to say yes,” Ronaldo recalled thinking during the interview. <\/p>\n

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Experts suggest the ring could be worth over \u00a31.5million<\/p>\n

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Friends present at the scene captured the impromptu moment on camera. <\/p>\n

The Al-Nassr player acknowledged he had always intended to propose but hadn’t anticipated doing so that particular evening.<\/p>\n

The former Manchester United player characterised himself as someone who doesn’t deliver flowers weekly, preferring to demonstrate affection through his own methods.<\/p>\n

Despite his self-proclaimed lack of traditional romanticism, Ronaldo became emotional during the proposal, admitting: “I didn’t cry but I had tears on my eyes.” <\/p>\n

\"CristianoThe wedding is expected to take place in 2026, after the World Cup | Instagram<\/p>\n

He delivered a speech to Rodriguez, emphasising his desire to marry her. <\/p>\n

The engagement ring features what specialists believe to be a 15 to 20-carat gold set in platinum.<\/p>\n

It is estimated to be worth \u00a31.5 million. <\/p>\n

Ronaldo revealed that Rodriguez showed greater interest in his sincerity than in the extravagant jewellery itself.<\/p>\n

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The Argentine-Spanish model announced their engagement through Instagram.<\/p>\n

She posted an image of her spectacular ring alongside the caption: “Yes, I do. In this and in all my lives.”<\/p>\n

Experts suggest the ring could be worth over \u00a31.5million.<\/p>\n

Prior to the engagement announcement, Ronaldo had remained evasive about wedding plans, telling Netflix merely a month earlier that marriage would occur “when we get that click.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo has revealed details of his proposal to partner Georgina Rodriguez for the first time, admitting he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,218,217,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-244089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-football","tag-sport","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}