{"id":363504,"date":"2026-07-07T03:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/363504\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T03:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T03:10:10","slug":"us-eliminated-by-belgium-and-spain-ends-world-cup-career-of-ronaldo-in-photos-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/363504\/","title":{"rendered":"US eliminated by Belgium and Spain ends World Cup career of Ronaldo, in photos | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States had Folarin Balogun in the lineup but had its defensive shortcomings exposed by Belgium in a 4-1 loss in the World Cup round of 16 on Monday. Balogun started the match in Seattle after FIFA lifted his one-game suspension for a red card in the round of 32 against Bosnia-Herzegovina.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Monday in Arlington, Texas, Spain beat Portugal 1-0 in the last World Cup appearance for 41-year-old Portugal great Cristiano Ronaldo, soccer&#8217;s career leader in international goals. Spain and Belgium will meet in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.<\/p>\n<p>Get any of our free email newsletters \u2014 news headlines, obituaries, sports, and more.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beloitdailynews.com\/newsletters\/\" class=\"btn btn-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Explore newsletters<\/a><\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.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 United States had Folarin Balogun in the lineup but had its defensive shortcomings exposed by Belgium in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151,18957,128749,731,154],"class_list":["post-363504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-news","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-photos-world-cup-soccer-ronaldo-balogun","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363504","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=363504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}