{"id":372142,"date":"2025-11-11T18:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/372142\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T18:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T18:49:11","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-says-6th-world-cup-in-2026-will-be-his-last-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/372142\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo says 6th World Cup in 2026 will be his last \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo said on Tuesday he expects his record sixth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/tag\/world-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">World Cup<\/a> next year at age 41 will be his last.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely, yes, because I will be 41 years old,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/11\/11\/sport\/video\/cristiano-ronaldo-world-cup-retire-digvid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ronaldo told CNN<\/a>\u00a0anchor Becky Anderson in a live video link from Portugal\u2019s training camp to a tourism conference in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo clarified that when he says he will retire from soccer \u201csoon\u201d that should mean \u201cprobably one, two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Portugal should seal qualification in the coming days for the World Cup that will be co-hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico. The team needs just two points from its final qualifying group games at Ireland on Thursday and hosting last-placed Armenia on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo&#8217;s five goals in four qualifying games have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/sports\/soccer\/cristiano-ronaldo-world-cup-qualifiers-goal-record-portugal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">extended his men\u2019s world record<\/a> to 143 for a national team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel very good in this moment. I score goals, I still feel quick and sharp, I\u2019m enjoying my game in the national team,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In regard to the end of his playing career, Ronaldo said, &#8220;Let\u2019s be honest, when I mean soon I mean probably one, two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m enjoying the moment. But when I mean soon, it\u2019s really soon, because I give everything for football. I\u2019m in the game for the last 25 years, I did everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have many records. I\u2019m really proud. So let\u2019s enjoy the moment, live the moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo and his great rival Lionel Messi are heading to their record sixth World Cups. That would break a tie with German great Lothar Matth\u00e4us who played at each World Cup from 1982-98.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina captain Messi is going as the defending champion and will turn 39 during the group stage in North America.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal and Argentina are among the co-hosts of the 2030 World Cup, giving Ronaldo and Messi the chance to exit the World Cup stage at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo said on Tuesday he expects his record sixth World Cup next year at age 41 will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":372143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337,21490],"class_list":{"0":"post-372142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles","13":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115532566626547825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}