{"id":28326,"date":"2022-12-10T18:12:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T18:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=28326"},"modified":"2022-12-10T18:12:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T18:12:44","slug":"ronaldo-wept-as-he-left-the-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/12\/10\/ronaldo-wept-as-he-left-the-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo wept as he left the stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cristiano Ronaldo\u00a0is captured walking off in tears as Portugal are dumped out of the\u00a02022 World Cup\u00a0with a\u00a01-0 defeat to Morocco in the quarterfinals.
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The 37-year-old came off the bench in the 51st minute of the match to replace\u00a0Ruben Neves\u00a0with Portugal trailing 1-0 after a first-half goal from\u00a0Youssef En-Nesyri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The former\u00a0Manchester United\u00a0star was unable to inspire his country back into the contest,\u00a0despite playing 40 minutes in the game,\u00a0only managed to amass 10 touches and just one shot, according to\u00a0WhoScored.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ronaldo missed a chance late on as his\u00a0right-footed effort was drilled low into goalkeeper Yassine Bounou’s hands among a string of chances late on from his team-mates including a header from Pepe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The final whistle left the forward heartbroken after failing to keep his dreams alive of one last crack at football’s greatest international prize.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He will be 41 when the next World Cup comes around in the summer of 2026, meaning that was most likely his final opportunity to win the major tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The current free agent did manage to break a few records in Qatar, despite being benched in two of Portugal’s matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He scored in their opening fixture to become the first player to score in five different World Cups before then drawing level with the record for most capped men’s international when he came off the bench against Morocco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The five-time\u00a0Ballon d’Or winner\u00a0matches the total of Kuwait forward Badr Al-Mutawa, adding to the list of records in his legendary career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ITV pundit Ally McCoist, however, insisted it is not about Ronaldo after watching him walk down the tunnel in tears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said: ‘Yes Ronaldo is upset, but It is not about [Ronaldo] him tonight. His time has been. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘It is all about Morocco this evening. What an example they have shown with that organisation, the flair, the ability to work for each other. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘If we are brutally honest, Pepe had a chance at the end, but I can\u2019t remember anything else.’<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morocco made history by becoming the first African team to reach a World Cup semi-final with their shock victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They will now face the winner of either France or England in the final four of the tournament in Qatar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cristiano Ronaldo\u00a0is captured walking off in tears as Portugal are dumped out of the\u00a02022 World Cup\u00a0with a\u00a01-0 defeat to Morocco in the quarterfinals. The 37-year-old came off the bench in the 51st minute of the match to replace\u00a0Ruben Neves\u00a0with Portugal trailing 1-0 after a first-half goal from\u00a0Youssef En-Nesyri. The former\u00a0Manchester United\u00a0star was unable to inspire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[4899,12758,8924,1791,1258,5247,5575,803,10954,10623,6926,11252,115,8126,12309,5457,11973,1975,8552,7987,194,11259,7333,7419,10885,3954,10415,36,5248],"class_list":["post-28326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-african","tag-captured","tag-chance","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-england","tag-football","tag-france","tag-goalkeeper","tag-international","tag-itv","tag-kuwait","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-united","tag-match","tag-men","tag-morocco","tag-one","tag-portugal","tag-qatar","tag-qatar-2022-fifa-world-cup","tag-ronaldo","tag-shot","tag-summer","tag-the-game","tag-victory","tag-will","tag-work","tag-world","tag-world-cup"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}