{"id":518499,"date":"2026-10-06T18:28:49","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T22:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=518499"},"modified":"2026-10-06T18:28:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T22:28:49","slug":"cristiano-wants-portugals-punishment-but-not-retiring","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cristiano-wants-portugals-punishment-but-not-retiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano wants Portugal&#8217;s &#8216;punishment&#8217; but not retiring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo claims he is not retiring from international football but deserves to be punished for walking out on the national team after manager Jorge Jesus twice &#8220;broke his word&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese superstar left Portugal\u2019s Nations League camp a few days ago after being an unused substitute vs. Norway and then finding out he will be on the bench again vs. Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>Cristiano has scored 146 goals in 234 matches for the national team \u2013 both world records \u2013 helping Portugal triumph at Euro 2016 and the Nations League 2 times.<\/p>\n<p>The Al-Nassr striker shared on social media that he must be held accountable for what he did.<\/p>\n<p>But Ronaldo accused the national team head coach of lying to him: the manager told him he would play vs. Norway, which didn\u2019t happen, and then he didn&#8217;t share that with the media, instead telling a completely different story.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo added that he has already apologized to the Portuguese Football Federation, but will not seek to avoid punishment, as he knows that what he did has consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Jesus revealed on Sunday that the door was still open for Cristiano to play for Portugal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cristiano Ronaldo says he is not retiring from international football but accepts he deserves to be punished for walking out on Portugal for a &quot;breach of the coach&#8217;s trust&quot; \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf9<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old captain left the national team camp after being an unused substitute against Norway and then learning he would not start against Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Sport (@BBCSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBCSport\/status\/2107564567765426228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">October 6, 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 claims he is not retiring from international football but deserves to be punished for walking out on the national team after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":518500,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16904,27187,17054],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[17961,27188,18409],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Ronaldo speaks after the drama with the national team.","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\/518499"}],"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=518499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/518499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518501,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/518499\/revisions\/518501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518499"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=518499"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=518499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}