{"id":2125,"date":"2025-11-26T06:51:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2025-11-26T06:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:51:57","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-able-to-play-at-world-cup-despite-red-card-against-republic-of-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=2125","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo able to play at World Cup despite red card against Republic of Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Cristiano Ronaldo will be able to play for Portugal in their opening game at next summer&#8217;s World Cup finals despite his red card against the Republic of Ireland.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ronaldo, 40, was sent off for an elbow to Dara O&#8217;Shea&#8217;s back during Portugal&#8217;s 2-0 qualifying defeat earlier this month. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Violent conduct normally carries a three-match ban but Ronaldo has had the second and third matches suspended for a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC Sport understands that the fact it was his first red card in 226 international appearances was taken into account.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ronaldo sat out the match against Armenia on 16 November so will not miss any games in the United States next summer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo will be able to play for Portugal in their opening game at next summer&#8217;s World Cup finals despite his red card against the Republic of Ireland. Ronaldo, 40, was sent off for an elbow to Dara O&#8217;Shea&#8217;s back during Portugal&#8217;s 2-0 qualifying defeat earlier this month. Violent conduct normally carries a three-match ban<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}