{"id":542,"date":"2025-06-10T17:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T09:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/?p=542"},"modified":"2025-06-10T17:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T09:11:26","slug":"cristiano-could-play-for-any-national-team-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/10\/cristiano-could-play-for-any-national-team-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cristiano could play for any national team in the world&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-16.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-16.png 1000w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-16-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/mktynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-16-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Carlo Ancelotti wanted to congratulate Cristiano Ronaldo on winning the Nations League title and took the opportunity to praise his professionalism after so many years at the highest level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brazil coach Carlo Ancelotti on Monday congratulated Cristiano Ronaldo on winning the Nations League with Portugal and said the former Real Madrid striker could &#8220;play for any national team in the world&#8221; at the age of 40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I am very happy for him. Cristiano is a football legend and he is still a legend at the age he is because of his seriousness and professionalism. He is still at the highest level,&#8221; said the Italian boss at the press conference ahead of Brazil&#8217;s 2026 World Cup South American qualifier against Paraguay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new &#8216;Canarinha&#8217; coach said that, with his current performance, &#8220;obviously Cristiano Ronaldo could play for any national team in the world&#8221;, including Brazil. The Italian coach, who has just started his first adventure at the helm of a national team, and the Portuguese striker, now with Al Nassr in Saudi Arabia, worked together at Real Madrid between 2013 and 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a successful period for both men, the highlight of which was Real&#8217;s tenth Champions League title in 2014. Brazil and Paraguay meet on Tuesday in the sixteenth round of South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both teams could guarantee an early ticket to the World Cup if they win and Venezuela are defeated in Uruguay. The match will be Ancelotti&#8217;s Brazil debut as Canarinha coach, after a goalless draw in Ecuador, as his debut was away; it will also coincide with his 66th birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carlo Ancelotti wanted to congratulate Cristiano Ronaldo on winning the Nations League title and took the opportunity to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mktynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}