{"id":163898,"date":"2019-10-29T15:11:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T14:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=163898"},"modified":"2019-10-29T15:12:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T14:12:10","slug":"ronaldo-admits-he-would-love-to-play-only-champions-league-portugal-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=163898","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo admits he would love to play only Champions League, Portugal matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/EPL-Why-I-snubbed-Arsene-Wenger-Arsenal-for-Man-Utd-\u2013-Cristiano-Ronaldo.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Juventus forward, Cristiano Ronaldo, has admitted that he would only play the \u201cimportant games\u201d, such as Champions League ties and Portugal\u2019s matches if it was up to him.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo wants to reduce the number of minutes he plays, in order to be fresh for the \u201ctypes of games that motivate me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with France Football, the 34-year-old claimed he would choose not to play in the majority of fixtures for Juventus, leaving himself fresh for their bigger Champions League ties and to represent Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it were up to me, I\u2019d only play important games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose of the national team and the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s these types of games that motivate me, those with everything at stake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you have to be professional and honour your family and the club who pay you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to do your best every day,\u201d Ronaldo said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juventus forward, Cristiano Ronaldo, has admitted that he would only play the \u201cimportant games\u201d, such as Champions League ties and Portugal\u2019s matches if it was up to him. Ronaldo wants to reduce the number of minutes he plays, in order to be fresh for the \u201ctypes of games that motivate me\u201d. Speaking in an interview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,4679,4680],"class_list":["post-163898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-christiano-ronaldo","tag-juventus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}