{"id":470703,"date":"2023-11-23T10:06:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T14:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=470703"},"modified":"2023-11-23T10:13:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T14:13:16","slug":"uefa-decided-cristiano-ronaldo-returns-in-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/uefa-decided-cristiano-ronaldo-returns-in-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA decided &#8211; Cristiano Ronaldo returns in Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team from Saudi Arabia will participate in the Champions League from next season, Spanish publication Marca reports on Thursday as\u00a0 an official confirmation from UEFA is awaited.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Serious negotiations are underway between the European football federation and the Saudi Arabian Football Association. Everything is final and a Saudi club will play in the Champions League. It will have a permanent place, not just for one season,&#8221; writes Marca.<\/p>\n<p>For now, it is not clear what is the regulation by which the country will send its representation in the tournament. This will probably be Cristiano Ronaldo&#8217;s Al Nassr.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 UEFA are reportedly considering inviting Saudi club Al-Nassr to the 2024\/2025 edition of the Champions League, as it&#8217;s considered one of the &#8220;3 most popular clubs&#8221; in the world.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alharbi_44?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@alharbi_44<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nlzmyaOp99\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/nlzmyaOp99<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeadlineDayLive\/status\/1724469459891441904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Next season, 36 teams will play in the Champions League under a new system in a total of 10 rounds in the group stage. Each team will play five away games and five home games against different opponents.<\/p>\n<p>4 new places open up and this gives UEFA the opportunity to invite a team from Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team from Saudi Arabia will participate in the Champions League from next season, Spanish publication Marca reports on Thursday as\u00a0 an official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":470706,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18098,18072,16904],"news_category":[142,14235],"gn_keywords":[18099,18073,17961],"acf":{"announce":"Al Nassr could be a participant next season","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470724,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/470703\/revisions\/470724"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470703"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=470703"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=470703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}