{"id":57085,"date":"2019-03-16T11:05:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T11:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=57085"},"modified":"2019-03-16T11:05:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T11:05:37","slug":"ronaldo-recalled-by-portugal-for-first-time-since-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/ronaldo-recalled-by-portugal-for-first-time-since-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo recalled by Portugal for first time since World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo was recalled by the Portuguese national squad on Friday for the first time since last year\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 34-year-old, who is Portugal\u2019s most capped player with 154 appearances and all-time leading scorer with 85 goals, had not been included for any games in the second half of last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coach Fernando Santos had initially said that a mutual decision had been made to give Ronaldo a rest following his move from Real Madrid to Juventus but had been ambiguous about the player\u2019s future when questioned in November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portugal continued to flourish without Ronaldo, winning their Nations League group against Poland and Italy with a game to spare to qualify for the final four-team tournament which the country will host in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, any doubts about his future were removed when Ronaldo\u2019s name was among 25 read by Santos during a news conference for the Euro 2020 qualifiers against Ukraine and Serbia.\u201cCristiano is the best player in the world and is returning to his team,\u201d said Santos. <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo was recalled by the Portuguese national squad on Friday for the first time since last year\u2019s World Cup. The 34-year-old, who is Portugal\u2019s most capped player with 154 appearances and all-time leading scorer with 85 goals, had not been included for any games in the second half of last year. Coach Fernando Santos [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57087,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57085\/revisions\/57087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}