{"id":363331,"date":"2026-07-07T00:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/363331\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T00:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:26:09","slug":"spain-ends-world-cup-career-of-ronaldo-and-us-players-suspension-lifted-to-play-belgium-in-photos-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/363331\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain ends World Cup career of Ronaldo and US player&#8217;s suspension lifted to play Belgium, in photos | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The round-of-16 game between Portugal and Spain on Monday at the home of the NFL\u2019s Dallas Cowboys was the last World Cup appearance for Portugal&#8217;s Cristiano Ronaldo. Later in Seattle, the United States was playing Belgium and all eyes were expected to be on U.S. forward Folarin Balogun. Balogun was red-carded last week but his automatic suspension was lifted after U.S. President Donald Trump intervened on behalf of the star.<\/p>\n<p>kAm%9:D \ud83d\ude00 2 A9@E@ 82==6CJ 4FC2E65 3J p! A9@E@ 65:E@CD]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The round-of-16 game between Portugal and Spain on Monday at the home of the NFL\u2019s Dallas Cowboys was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,4490],"class_list":["post-363331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-national_sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}