{"id":78525,"date":"2025-11-11T14:37:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78525"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:37:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:37:53","slug":"ronaldo-confirms-next-world-cup-will-be-his-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/11\/ronaldo-confirms-next-world-cup-will-be-his-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo Confirms Next World Cup Will Be His Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Portuguese football legend Cristiano Ronaldo has confirmed that the 2026 World Cup will mark his final appearance on the global stage, saying he plans to retire within the next \u201cone or two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking via video call at a Saudi tourism and investment summit, the 40-year-old Al Nassr forward said, \u201cI feel great and I\u2019m still scoring goals, but soon probably means one or two years. Definitely, the next World Cup will be my last.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo, who has scored over 950 career goals and holds the men\u2019s international scoring record with 143 goals, said he is proud of his achievements and now wants to focus on his family and enjoying the present.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve given everything to football for 25 years. I\u2019m proud of what I\u2019ve achieved. Now it\u2019s time to live in the moment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also spoke about supporting his son, Cristiano Jr., who plays for Portugal\u2019s U-16 team, saying, \u201cIf he ends up better than me, amazing, but there\u2019s no pressure. I just want him to be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Portuguese football legend Cristiano Ronaldo has confirmed that the 2026 World Cup will mark his final appearance on the global stage, saying he plans to retire within the next \u201cone or two years.\u201d Speaking via video call at a Saudi tourism and investment summit, the 40-year-old Al Nassr forward said, \u201cI feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78527,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78525\/revisions\/78527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}