{"id":518324,"date":"2026-10-01T07:24:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=518324"},"modified":"2026-10-01T07:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:24:46","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-leaves-portugal-leao-becomes-the-new-number-7","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cristiano-ronaldo-leaves-portugal-leao-becomes-the-new-number-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo leaves Portugal, Leao becomes the new number 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo left Portugal&#8217;s training camp yesterday ahead of the Nations League game vs. Denmark, but the number 7 shirt won&#8217;t be left vacant. In today\u2019s match in Copenhagen, Rafael Leao will wear it, the forward who moved from AC Milan to Galatasaray a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Nations League rules state that footballers on the team sheet must wear numbers 1 to 23. That is why Portugal had no choice but to give Cristiano\u2019s number 7 shirt. Besides the Portuguese superstar, Francisco Conceicao is also out against Denmark with a thigh injury.<\/p>\n<p>The row over Cristiano\u2019s departure has hit Selecao: Portugal\u2019s official profile is said to have lost half a million followers in several hours. Portuguese supporters, however, think Ronaldo himself is to blame for the drama. A poll in the most popular sports newspaper shows that around 80% of the people blame Cristiano for the situation.<\/p>\n<p>The drama is set to continue, as rumors are that Cristiano was promised and guaranteed greater respect in the national team until 2027 to convince him to return, and now the country\u2019s minister has asked for a meeting with manager Jorge Jesus to discuss the situation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 \ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc05\ud835\udc05\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc02\ud835\udc08\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0b: \ud835\udc11\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc05\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc0b \ud835\udc0b\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0e \ud835\udc08\ud835\udc12 \ud835\udc0f\ud835\udc0e\ud835\udc11\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc14\ud835\udc06\ud835\udc00\ud835\udc0b\u2019\ud835\udc12 \ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc16 \ud835\udc0d\ud835\udc14\ud835\udc0c\ud835\udc01\ud835\udc04\ud835\udc11 \ud835\udfd5 \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\udf1f<\/p>\n<p>Portugal have announced their squad numbers for the clash against Denmark, with Rafael Le\u00e3o taking over the iconic No. 7 shirt previously worn by Cristiano Ronaldo \ud83d\udc557\ufe0f\u20e3<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf9\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GZpxgR2Tzo\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/GZpxgR2Tzo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; 433 (@433) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/433\/status\/2105590521326428262?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">October 1, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo left Portugal&#8217;s training camp yesterday ahead of the Nations League game vs. Denmark, but the number 7 shirt won&#8217;t be left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":518325,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16904,17054],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[17961,18409],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Dramatic moments in the Portuguese national team during the current international break.","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\/518324"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/518324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518326,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/518324\/revisions\/518326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518324"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=518324"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=518324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}