{"id":15122,"date":"2023-06-21T10:44:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T05:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=15122"},"modified":"2023-06-21T10:44:52","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T05:44:52","slug":"ronaldo-score-winner-in-record-200th-game-for-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2023\/06\/21\/ronaldo-score-winner-in-record-200th-game-for-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo score winner in record 200th game for Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>\u00a0Ronaldo score winner in record 200<sup>th<\/sup> game for Portugal<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo marked his 200<sup>th<\/sup> international appearance with the winner as Portugal beat Iceland 1-0 in Euro 2024 qualifying on Tuesday, while Erling Haaland netted twice for Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal appeared to be heading towards a drab goalless draw in Reykjavik until Willum Thor Willumsson was sent off late on.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo struggled for much of the match but repaid coach Roberto Martinez&#8217;s faith by slotting home from Goncalo Inacio&#8217;s knock-down in the 89th minute.<\/p>\n<p>It was a nice script (for Ronaldo). There was incredible celebration, the first men\u2019s player ever in world football to get 200 international games, said Martinez.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15124\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15124\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15124\" src=\"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/06\/Ronaldo-Portugal-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"Cristiano Ronaldo\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/06\/Ronaldo-Portugal-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/06\/Ronaldo-Portugal.jpg 359w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cristiano Ronaldo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The former Real Madrid and Manchester United star\u2019s record-extending 123<sup>rd<\/sup> international goal was initially ruled out for offside before being awarded by VAR.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me it&#8217;s an unbelievable achievement, it&#8217;s amazing,&#8221; said the 38-year-old Ronaldo. &#8220;And ofcourse to score the winning goal, it&#8217;s even more special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marking his 200<sup>th<\/sup> cap, the Portugal team\u2019s official Twitter account featured the message, \u2018How it started. How it\u2019s going, above a picture of a young Ronaldo playing in an early appearance for Portugal alongside a photo of \u201cJubilant Ronaldo\u201d during Tuesday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo also padded his \u201crecord for international goals\u201d in Tuesday by netting his 123<sup>rd<\/sup> for Portugal- making it another memorable night for the former Real Madrid and Manchester United star.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo said he was \u201cvery proud\u201d to complete 200 games for Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sources &amp; Courtesy: CGTN<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Ronaldo score winner in record 200th game for Portugal \u00a0 Cristiano Ronaldo marked his 200th international appearance with the winner as Portugal beat Iceland 1-0 in Euro 2024 qualifying on Tuesday, while Erling Haaland netted twice for Norway. Portugal appeared to be heading towards a drab goalless draw in Reykjavik until Willum Thor Willumsson was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2305,2299],"tags":[3028,3031,3029,3030],"class_list":["post-15122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","category-world","tag-cristiano-ronaldo","tag-manchester-united","tag-portugal","tag-real-madrid"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15126,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15122\/revisions\/15126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}