{"id":332617,"date":"2021-03-28T08:45:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-28T07:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=332617"},"modified":"2021-03-28T08:50:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-28T07:50:49","slug":"serbia-vs-portugal-referee-makkelie-has-apologized-for-disallowing-ronaldos-goal-coach-santos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=332617","title":{"rendered":"Serbia vs Portugal: Referee Makkelie has apologized for disallowing Ronaldo&#8217;s goal &#8211; Coach Santos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Cristiano Ronaldo has reacted after his angry display during Portugal\u2019s 2-2 draw against Serbia in a World Cup qualification game on Saturday.<br \/>\nRonaldo could not believe his bad luck after the referee got his goal disallowed because VAR was not there to help him.<br \/>\nReplay showed that the ball definitely rolled over the goal line after Ronaldo\u2019s shot with even the Serbia players confirming it as goal after watching the replay.<br \/>\nRonaldo was left fuming knowing that Serbia defender, Stefan Mitrovic cleared his stoppage time effort when the ball had crossed the line, and Dutch referee, Danny Makkelie, waved play on and showed the Juventus superstar a yellow card for protesting.<br \/>\nThe former Real Madrid star took off the captain\u2019s armband and slammed it on the ground in anger and this did not go down well with some Portugal supporters on social media.<br \/>\nAfter several minutes of reflection, the former Sporting Lisbon forward finally came out to react to what just happened.<br \/>\nWriting on Instagram, Ronaldo said, \u201cBeing captain of the Portugal team is one of the greatest pride and privileges of my life.<br \/>\n\u201cI always give and will give everything for my country. That will never change. But there are difficult times to deal with, especially when we feel that an entire nation is being harmed.<br \/>\n\u201cLift your head and face the next challenge now! Let\u2019s go, Portugal!\u201d<br \/>\nRonaldo is expected to lead his side in their next game which is against Luxembourg for the third World Cup Qualifier.<br \/>\nThe European champions won their first game 1-0 against Azerbaijan and are second in Group A behind Serbia.<\/div>\n<p>(Daily Post)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristiano Ronaldo has reacted after his angry display during Portugal\u2019s 2-2 draw against Serbia in a World Cup qualification game on Saturday. Ronaldo could not believe his bad luck after the referee got his goal disallowed because VAR was not there to help him. Replay showed that the ball definitely rolled over the goal line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":332618,"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":[462,4665],"class_list":["post-332617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-portugal","tag-ronaldo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332617","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=332617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/332618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}