{"id":2240,"date":"2026-11-05T11:29:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2026-11-05T11:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T11:29:05","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-announces-retirement-from-portugal-national-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/blog\/2026\/11\/05\/cristiano-ronaldo-announces-retirement-from-portugal-national-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo Announces Retirement from Portugal National Team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo has announced his retirement from international football, bringing an end to his 23-year career with the national team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 41-year-old confirmed the decision on Thursday, November 5, saying it was time to hand over Portugal&#8217;s iconic number seven shirt to the next generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ronaldo made his international debut in 2003 and became Portugal&#8217;s all-time leading scorer, with 146 goals in 234 appearances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his international career, he captained Portugal to its first major international trophy at Euro 2016 and helped the team win the UEFA Nations League in 2019 and 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his farewell message, Ronaldo thanked the Portuguese people, his teammates, coaches, and everyone who had supported him throughout his journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His retirement marks the end of one of the longest and most successful international careers in men&#8217;s football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo has announced his retirement from international football, bringing an end to his 23-year career with the national team. The 41-year-old confirmed the decision on Thursday, November 5, saying it was time to hand over Portugal&#8217;s iconic number seven shirt to the next generation. Ronaldo made his international debut in 2003 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,48,29],"tags":[939,940,789,277],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-reports","category-sports","category-world","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-retirement","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bareenmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}