{"id":74284,"date":"2025-11-14T02:36:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/14\/fifa-wc-2026-why-ronaldo-could-face-a-ban-miss-portugals-opener\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T02:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:36:07","slug":"fifa-wc-2026-why-ronaldo-could-face-a-ban-miss-portugals-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/14\/fifa-wc-2026-why-ronaldo-could-face-a-ban-miss-portugals-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA WC 2026: Why Ronaldo could face a ban; miss Portugal&#8217;s opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo received his first-ever international red card for elbowing an opponent, potentially jeopardising his participation in the 2026 World Cup opener.  While Portugal&#8217;s coach defended the action as harsh, FIFA regulations suggest a ban of at least two matches for serious foul play.  A victory against Armenia will secure Portugal&#8217;s World Cup spot.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo received his first-ever international red card for elbowing an opponent, potentially jeopardising his participation in the 2026 World Cup opener. While Portugal&#8217;s coach defended the action as harsh, FIFA regulations suggest a ban of at least two matches for serious foul play. A victory against Armenia will secure Portugal&#8217;s World Cup spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":74285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}