{"id":1055,"date":"2025-11-13T03:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T03:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2025-11-13T04:01:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:01:27","slug":"2026-fifa-world-cup-will-be-my-last-says-ronaldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/2026-fifa-world-cup-will-be-my-last-says-ronaldo\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 FIFA World Cup will be my last, says Ronaldo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo confirmed the 2026 FIFA World Cup would be his final appearance at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, the Al-Nassr forward was asked if the next World Cup would be his last and replied, &#8220;Definitely yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will be 41 years old and I think will be the moment in the big competition,&#8221; said the five-time Ballon d&#8217;Or winner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m enjoying the moment, but when I mean soon, it\u2019s really soon because I gave everything for football.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The decision means the Portuguese superstar, who represented his country at five previous World Cups, effectively ruled himself out of the 2030 edition, which Portugal would co-host with Morocco and Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal are on the verge of qualifying for the 2026 tournament, sitting top of Group F with 10 points, five clear of second-place Hungary with two matches remaining.<\/p>\n<p>A victory over the Republic of Ireland on Thursday would secure their place at the top of the group.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Football superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cristiano?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Cristiano<\/a> Ronaldo has told CNN that the 2026 FIFA World Cup will \u201cdefinitely\u2019 be his last.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will be 41 years old and I think will be the moment in the big competition,\u201d Ronaldo told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeckyCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BeckyCNN<\/a> in a virtual interview today. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4LESJzMFH4\">pic.twitter.com\/4LESJzMFH4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CNN International PR (@cnnipr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cnnipr\/status\/1988268247079419975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo confirmed the 2026 FIFA World Cup would be his final appearance at the tournament. Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, the Al-Nassr forward was asked if the next World Cup would be his last and replied, &#8220;Definitely yes.&#8221; &#8220;I will be 41 years old and I think will be the moment in the big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/2026-fifa-world-cup-will-be-my-last-says-ronaldo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2026 FIFA World Cup will be my last, says Ronaldo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[284,218,418,127],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-popular","category-top-stories","tag-al-nassr-fc","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spotvnow.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}